It wasn't so long ago that I hated the very notion of Twitter. It was short and pithy and fast, so very fast, that I had no idea how to keep up. A few weeks down the line, I still have no idea how people keep up, but to be honest, Twitter is about all I read at the moment. Between school runs and crying children, errands and cooking suppers there is barely time to go to the loo, so to deal with no more than 140 characters in one hit is all I can … [Read more...]
Guilty Pleasures: Hello
I worked as an au pair in Germany for an English family during a year out, which turned out to be the beginning of life as a childcarer in one form or another. I had changed a nappy before, but it was still a steep learning curve. To be honest I had no idea it would be so hard to live with people you weren't related to. It had never occurred to me that other people would have a different way of doing everything, from cooking to ironing shirts. In … [Read more...]
Top Five Christmas Classics on the Christmas Countdown
Despite being a Radio Two afficionado for, well, ever (did I mention that I have been thirty-something since I was five?) I am often not in the right frame of mind to listen to Sounds of the Sixties on a Saturday morning, not least this morning after walking the halls with Dimples for three hours last night. Instead I turned over to some other channel and found myself listening to the Three Tenors singing Oh Holy Night:It's one of those … [Read more...]
The Gallery: Red, red, red!
I've been following The Gallery since it started. It's hard not to when it is a very similar age to the Dimpled One, so I assume that I can be forgiven for taking until now to throw my hat in the ring with some truly excellent writers and photographers. Since I am neither, I hope that you'll forgive me. The Halloween-related theme is The Colour Red, and thus, I offer you a school photograph. It might not seem to you like you that this is a) … [Read more...]
