Walkabout

The doctor informed me yesterday that I’ll need to talk to the consultant about another early delivery. This is not really a surprise given that a) it’s what happened last time (hence use of the word another) and b) I am 25 weeks pregnant and asking her for serious pain killers. My maternity leave started [...]

Pumpkin Party

Violet Posy is having a Halloween ‘do’! I thought it only fair that I do the same….

PD with her trick-or-treat stash last year. And WH in witchy glory!

The Pocket Dictator is having a Halloween Party tomorrow, a whimsical notion caused by the arrival of some lovely new cake cutters (the former cake cutters [...]

Surgical Support

Peggy at  A Mother’s Secrets is compiling stories about pregnancy lows, so I thought I’d share mine:

I hated DH, who wasn’t DH at that point (by which I mean he wasn’t my husband rather than he wasn’t my darling) for making me learn to drive. I hated the lessons, though he found me [...]

That Friday feeling

DH had taken the day off and we are heading out ‘en famille’ to the Kent Coast for the weekend. Walks on the beach with the Wonder Hound and al fresco lunches are on the cards (albeit swathed in fleecey fabrics) for we three and the Pocket Dictator. DH is riding high after a work-related [...]

Something for the weekend

We have friends coming to visit this weekend: they are staying in the room that will at some point in the relatively near future belong to the Pocket Dictator. She will be getting the upgrade to allow Babydeux free and full use of the nursery which is smaller and (more importantly) has an interconnecting door [...]

Fan mail

I’ve not been back blogging that long but already someone has seen fit to bestow an award upon me. I figure Peggy has just run out of good people to award things to but, hey, I’ll take it where I can get it. Thanks Peggy! A conditional requirement of the honour is that I [...]