It's the night before our Annual 'Pumpkin Party'. I say 'Annual' but the first one was only last year, so I don't know whether it can be annual yet. I say Pumpkin Party, but the theme is much less visible than last year's affair, mainly because I was a bit slow to get my act together this year. In fact I have a massive list of things that need doing, making and buying before 2.30pm tomorrow, when a small but distinguished group of two- and … [Read more...]
Reduce, reuse, recycle: a change to the scheduled collection
There's been a recent addition to DG Manor in the form of two new recycle bins. The London Borough of Bromley has, after nearly two years of trials, rolled out a food waste collection scheme in order to try and reduce the amount of Landfill that they are filling, and therefore paying for. According to the Council website, though one of the best Boroughs for recycling, about one third of all the waste collected is food-based. So now, we have … [Read more...]
Dear So and So
An age ago Three Bedroom Bungalow came up with the brilliant idea of Dear So-and-so so that you can write letters to loved-ones and total randoms and get a few things, positive and negative off your chest, as it were. As with many other things, I'm finally getting round to it.My darling Pocket Dictator,I want to thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for going into nursery (or school, as we call it) without tears and remonstrations for the first … [Read more...]
Writing workshop: halfway down the stairs.
Get me: I'm becoming a big bloggy joiner! In a bid to get my ample posterior in gear to write an entire book, I've finally joined the Writing Workshop at Sleep is for the Weak.There's a song on the CD of music that you insist that we play whenever we are driving anywhere: Halfway down the stairsHalfway down the stairs Is a stair where I sit: There isn't any other stair quite like it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top: So this is … [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...]
Let the writing commence
I’m grabbing the bull by the horns, and putting pen to paper, as it were. DH has been banging on at me for the last year about ‘writing that bloody book’, but I’ve always found an excuse not to. It’s quite an impressive feat given that I spent the end of last year housebound by both snow and SPD in what was possibly the most miserable period of my life, whilst someone else looked after the Pocket Dictator and I spent a vast amount of time online … [Read more...]
Moments in Motherhood….
I'm not doing very well with this blogging malarkey of late. The trip to the States has completely messed with The Girls' body clocks so we've been up at all hours, eating at all hours, sleeping at all hours.It seems that anything more than a couple of hours' time difference really plays havoc with a child's system, so clawing back five of the blighters is proving to be a long battle. We had friends down to The Beach House in a bid to exhaust our … [Read more...]
