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 [...]

Thought for a Thursday

This was my original thought, though not very original at the moment (I’ll have you know I was ahead of the trend on owning this poster and have it in my downstairs loo.) It’s appropriate after a week of awful commuting experiences and poonami incidents from both PD and WH. The WH very thoughtfully [...]

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 [...]

The stain game

I am being genuine when I say I love ironing. Once upon a time it was the element of getting something perfectly flat and smooth and beautifully folded or hung that I loved, along with the smell of freshly ironed things. Now I love the illicit TV watching, by which I mean utter crap I [...]

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 [...]