Tag Archives: Family life

I keep thinking…

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

I keep thinking that I should check myself into a hotel for the weekend. That way I would finally be able to read that book I wanted to, without interruption. I would try really hard not to fall asleep on … Continue reading →

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Beware of the bath

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

Last night, after a hard day of tapping the keys fantastic and dropping a child at a birthday party and stuffing my face with pizza, I decided to plough on with my film challenge and snuggled into my husbands shoulder … Continue reading →

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The honesty and delusion of babes

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

Yesterday, I had an endoscopy. My appointment arrives annually. Much like my birthday. Unlike my birthday, I don’t spend my time stuffing myself with cake and slurping down glasses of wine. But on the up side, I do get to … Continue reading →

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She should be fired…

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

It’s ridiculous! We really need a new housekeeper around here. The current one is constantly sidetracked by blogs and stories and challenges and taking the children to feed the ducks. She doesn’t want to do homework. She keeps forgetting to … Continue reading →

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A bit more of the chin chining

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Yesterday felt like a very special day for a multitude of reasons. One of them wasn’t because the first fly of the year got past the fly net and spent the whole evening trying to divert my attention from my … Continue reading →

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I am my own worst enemy

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

I’ve had a strange couple of days. Not least because the sun’s come out to play again, which means starting to have contact with real people after a forever lasting winter of illness and cold and grey. I say real … Continue reading →

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How to do EVERYTHING!

Posted on March 21, 2012 by

Some dozy plonker A generous benefactor saw fit, one Christmas, to present my son with: “The Boys Book: How to be the Best at Everything”. Now, on first glance (and by that, I mean, at the cover) you’d surely think … Continue reading →

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It could even be a snail fail

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

Akasha, has today, learned a new word: Stau. Translated into English, that means traffic jam. We live in a village on the outskirts of town. We’re so near to town, in fact, we can normally hop in the car and … Continue reading →

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Being 16

Posted on March 7, 2012 by

My 16 year old daughter came home from school today and handed me an envelope and told me to read it. Being a mother of four I felt my stomach drop right out of my bottom as I thought: what … Continue reading →

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Brotherly love

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

Standing in the kitchen, preparing a couscous salad with my eleven-year old  son, (for the new neighbours who are moving in today – we fathomed they wouldn’t be up to cooking) we both listen to the dulcet tones of the … Continue reading →

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