Sorry in advance, this is another long one, but bear with me, it may help you! My aunt gave me this book when we were visiting her last weekend. My mum had given it to her when she was pregnant with her son, 15 years ago and, it turns out, …
I’ve had a whole bunch of awards sitting around gathering dust, so figured I would make use of my unexpected night away from my computer to sit at a different computer and dispense awards left, right and centre (appropriately, it being election day). Warning: I am almost certainly giving people …
So, I know I said I wasn’t going to blog until after my long weekend away, but a tweet of Noble Savage’s gave me the urge to write about wee. I know not quite my normal high-brow (cough) material, but you really can’t ignore the urge to blog about wee. …
Rosemary and I shall be joining all you half-term holidayers on Friday (yes, right at the end of half term – what?). We will be getting the train up to Lincoln, thence a bus to Horncastle and from there to a small village called Tetford, where two of my aunts …
As some of you will know from reading some of my manic, late-night tweets, I’ve had a pretty busy work week. I’ve worked every evening since some time last week (probably whenever I wrote the last post here, in fact). This work-fest (that pales into insignificance next to the ones …
As many of you will know, I’m not the most pro-active person in putting myself forward and speaking up. This seems to follow through to talking to playgroup leaders and nursery school staff. I can manage the quick drop-off ‘notes’, such as ‘She didn’t sleep well last night, so might …
As I mentioned in a recent post, there are many parenting choices that we all make. I think that we all probably have one or two parenting things that we’re very determined about. This might be something basic like never smacking, or something coming from underlying principles, such as bringing …
Rosemary has been away for the weekend; she’s due back into the train station in just over an hour. She’s stayed away at my mum’s for a weekend before, but that’s a 10-minute taxi ride away. This time, she went with my up on the train up to Lincolnshire, to …
Rosemary is on a bit of a boundary-testing run at the moment. Of course, she never completely stops testing our boundaries, probably because she knows full well that we can both be inconsistent. At the moment, though, it is very difficult to keep in my head the knowledge that this …
I have been tagged by Emily at Maternal Tales, Almost American and Amy at and 1 more means four (I think that’s everyone, but it’s always possible I’ve missed someone!). 1. What are your current obsessions? To be honest, the only one I can think of is blogging. 2. Which …
