Bringing Up Boys - Being put in your place..
I have been well and truly put in my place.I thought Bog Boy liked having a bath with me and mucking about in the water, but this morning I was told that he'd prefer it if he had a bath on his own.I...
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Having a healthy respect for chickens......
Butter wouldn't melt ...I am rapidly revising my ideas about chickens mostly I think of them as dumb clucks, sometimes a feather short of a full wing but in no way do I think of them as cunning,...
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Older, wiser, more mature...
Life should be like a melting ice creamOlder wiser, more mature, glamorous, sophisticated, totally in control...come off it who do you think you are kidding!?A whole year older and I am no more of...
View ArticleSo you want to work for me….?
Let’s get this straight when you work for me I want to see work done.Your place of work is for work it is not an internet café nor is it a social media site I don’t want to see you texting when you...
View ArticleThe last time….
I come into a room and the scent sends me back in time, tumbling into childhood and and for a fleeting moment I am there and everything is safe. Scent does that to you - it is evocative. I pretend that...
View ArticleBlack Dog Stalking...a real horror story.
I am being stalked by a black dog; sometimes his breath is hot on my neck at other times just a fleeting glimpse out of the corner of my eye but whatever, he is definitely here - haunting me.How do I...
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Death at 4am...
Something was wrong though in my befuddled state I couldn’t work out what it was. All I knew that I had just been woken. There was no noise, not really. Nothing untoward as such. So I lay back...
View ArticleA short lesson in relativity...
My eldest was busy with his homework; English Comprehension. The piece he was reading was all about the invention of zips.“Oh cool! Before 1893,” he read, “you used to have ties, laces and...
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You could still do Christmas if you wanted to...
Merry Chrismas!It can get very disconcerting when your eldest (9) decides that you need to get a grip but that is what he did today.Him: Are we going to have a Christmas then?Me peering at him from the...
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Fat is a post-holiday issue....
Weighing in!!!That’s it! I need to pull out the big guns. I have just, and I mean only just, recovered from the shock that is my post-Christmas weight. I casually popped myself on the scales two nights...
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Bringing up boys – pulling the other one
Innocent - My Eye!His door is shut.Not a normal occurrence.Should I be suspicious.You Bet!He may have big blue eyes and golden hair as well as the face of an angel but he is NOT to be trusted at all....
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BIG MOTHER IS WATCHING YOU!
From my office window...From where I am sitting in my office I can look through the window out across to the bathroom. I live in an L-shaped house so the view from my office encompasses not just the...
View ArticleI like chocolate - especially when I'm dieting
I like chocolateI like it lots and lotsI especially like chocolateWhen to have it I am not...Why is it you only really crave chocolate when you have decided you must not have it?Why can't chocolate in...
View ArticleWhere is the snow? Promises a parent should never make...
My boys are sulking.Sulking big time.We have no snow and despite the forecast, no snow has materialised.I stupidly promised to take them sledging as a treat and now I am being held personally...
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Bringing Up Boys - Sending me stark staring bonkers...
School BagsDear God give me strength!What IS it with boys?BOTH of them came home today – the biggest prep day of the week – without the wherewithal to complete their homework. In spite of me asking not...
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All my lost ones...
Bog BoyThere’s a bit in the movie Marley & Me where they go to the doctors because they have ‘not’ been trying to have a baby and Jen is nearly 10 weeks pregnant. They’re having an ultrasound and...
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Bark Bark Bark Bark - Old Dogs
My Old Dog!My dog is old and it seems to have crept up on us suddenly. He wasn't that old the other day but now he definitely is old. He's not got any noticeable grey hairs, he potters about just as...
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Bringing Up Boys: Cough Cough Cough ek ek ek....
They're playing: "Poor Me!"I have just picked up my youngest from school - early. A mere 48 hours from doing exactly the same operation for his elder brother.I was not the only parent collecting their...
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Insomnia and how to deal with it!
How I'd like to sleep - out cold!Up at 1am this morning thanks to a gigantic clap of thunder."Great!" I think, "Third night in a row when I won't be sleeping."I hate waking up in the middle of the...
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Bringing Up Boys: Making them scream like girls!
Screaming like a girl!There are times when I like to scare my boys silly. Not in a bad way, but in a shocking unexpected GOD-THAT-SCARED-ME-BUT-I-AM-GIGGLING-NOW kind of way.It’s good for the soul.Just...
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