Today is the last full day of school holidays. Yes I know I keep banging on about it but it really has been a loooonnnnnggg old affair. Just a weekend to go and I hoping that some order can be restored around these parts. In the meantime it is Boobday and for no other reason…
The last three weeks have been a bit of a tough time. After enjoying two blissful kid free weeks my offspring returned home and for those of you not in the UK, school summer holidays are still going on, and on, and on…. There is another full week to go after this one. I have…
Yesterday was a perfectly perfect English summers day. We have, unusually, had a few of them this summer but for the last 2 weeks there has been an abundance of children/teens in my house. Not all of them are mine I hasten to add. Now I am quite happy walking around naked in front of…
Apologies in advance, this is rather long and not very wicked but oddly feels very intimate to me. Today is International Woman’s Day. My Twitter timeline has been full of people celebrating women from all walks of life but the vast majority have been about significant women of history. I have seen mention of Rosa…
Today on Twitter (25th June 2013) I got involved in a conversation with a number of people about appropriate or more worryingly inappropriate dress and tattoo adornment for older women. The implication in the original few comments seemed to be, in reference to tattoo’s; don’t get one where people might see as when you are…
Today is our first wedding anniversary! I can’t believe it has already been a year, where on earth does the time go? Although I think the answer here is probably something along the lines of…. Time flies when you are having fun…. cause oh boy have we had fun over the last year. We have…
I am on holiday… or more correctly WE are on holiday. This will be our first family holiday together since Sir moved to the UK to live with me and my children. For those of you who don’t know that back story we met on-line and had a long distance relationship for a period of…
24th November 2011 I nearly didn’t write one of these Thanksgiving posts this year. I think because he is not here today I have felt rather removed from the whole Thanksgiving band wagon. I know that will change on Saturday when we introduce 6 of our wonderful friends to the joys of a traditional Thanksgiving…
5th November 2011 Remember, remember the Fifth of November, the Gunpower Treason and Plot, I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot. Tonight is Bonfire Night in the UK, also know as Guy Fawkes Night. It is traditional in the UK to celebrate this event with fireworks, food and friends. Lots of…
26th September 2011 I just noticed that Josie’s prompt this week for her writing workshop is ‘time’ and so here I am wasting a bit more of it to write this, or at least I am pretty sure that would be my Mother’s view on it but I digress, into dangerous rant infested waters and…
19th April 2011 Once upon a time my son came home from school with a reading book entitled ‘The Christmas Story’. He sat next to me after dinner and started to read, this is nice I thought, as he read to me about angels visiting Mary and Mary and Josephs mad dash to Bethlehem by…
25th November 2010 I have 2 other posts already written and waiting to be posted but I have decided to put them on hold to just say a little something about today, because today is Thanksgiving. I know I am a Brit, but I seem to have also become an honorary Murrican and so today…
17th September 2010 Dear G Today you are 11. I can’t quite believe to be honest. It seemed like only yesterday I was holding you in my arms for the first time. You stared up at me with this real little frown on your face as if to say, well this all very confusing. You…
6th September 2010 I know I have lots of readers, my blog stats tell me that, some of them regular visits and some of them who come by as one offs. It seems that many of those one off’s stick around though and come back to read time and again. I am delighted to have…
March 14th 2010 Mother’s Day Today is the 4th Sunday of Lent and in the UK that means that it is also Mother’s day or for the traditionalists, Mothering Sunday. For Mum’s everywhere in the UK today will be filled with cards and bunches of daffodils delivered to the bedroom along with the little people’s…
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