I am, without a shadow of a doubt, The Queen of the faux pas. The Doyenne of the indiscreet blunder. The Grande Dame of the social fuck up. The filter located somewhere between my brain and my mouth periodically becomes … Continue reading
The other morning while dawdling over my tea and toast, and flicking absent-mindedly through a copy of Sundays Observer, the following headline jumped out at me: ‘Find Mr Right before age 30 or settle for second best’. The article, written … Continue reading
The Youngest has a steadily growing menagerie of fluffy toy animals. Her favourite is a cat called… wait for it… Catty. She also has a red rabbit called Mini, and a ferret. The ferret’s called Ferret. Clearly this family lacks … Continue reading
And so it rages on with varying degrees of predictability. I’m talking about the breastfeeding/formula feeding debate. I find it to be a variation on a theme with the working mother/stay at home mother debate. Either one can render me … Continue reading
For a woman with her own blog, I am just one small notch above complete computer illiteracy. I wrote in a previous post about how my p.c. and internet connection were both new. Well they are now slightly less new, … Continue reading
So much ‘mummy blogging’ (the term itself actually proving my point to an extent) is anodyne, sugary, insipid, and well… a bit crap really. I’m ducking the rotten tomatoes as I type. But I can’t hold back anymore. What I … Continue reading
Eldest Son has been getting into trouble at school. I have been summoned on more than one occasion to the head masters office, to be told that my son can be uncooperative, and is at times, extremely rude. The headmaster … Continue reading
It’s getting beyond a joke. The snow, I mean. At first the novelty was fun. The wintry scenes were pretty and it was all a great excuse to hunker down at home and not do very much. We built snowmen … Continue reading
Yes. In the words of a certain pathetic Irish comedian, ‘There’s more’. I find that there is much enjoyment to be had from gazumping people in busy car parks. Gazumping men in busy car parks particularly. I know I know, … Continue reading
I have many. Mumsnet.com discussion forums for instance, but that’s a whole different post. Another is (deep breath) 25 Beautiful Homes. For those of you that aren’t familiar with this paragon of intellectual might and good taste, it is a … Continue reading
