Or a quick employment update. I have recently started paid work again for Women’s Aid. One of our family support workers left to work for another Women’s Aid group (one that is still a collective as opposed to a hierarchy) … Continue reading
I was born in the late hot summer of 1975. I have the scars to prove it. Cold metal forceps dug deep into baby soft flesh, tugging, pulling, splitting the skin. My poor mother. She was only nineteen. Very soon … Continue reading
So here we are! I am quite excited to be finally presenting the Bad Mummy Moments Carnival in all its (gory) glory. A huge thank you to everyone who has participated and submitted a post – it’s been so enjoyable … Continue reading
The other day while I was lolling idly on my sofa reading the supplement magazine that comes with my weekend paper, I came across something that genuinely frightened and appalled me. Now I am, if I’m honest, the sort of … Continue reading
It’s lovely, my local town. You take a ten minute drive away from my house, up out of a valley and down a long and winding road with stunning views out over green hills and fields, and you’re there. It’s … Continue reading
Yes, I know what you’re all thinking. What’s with the picture? Not exactly seasonal is it Gappy?But please bear with me, for all will soon be revealed….You see I have (after some fairly perfunctory how-to research) decided to host a … Continue reading
We are going through a funny phase in our house at the moment, or at least the youngest is. She has become inexplicably convinced that everything in her world can be categorised and sorted into two distinct camps – the … Continue reading
I have been sent this award by the lovely and inspiring Technobabe. I rather love the picture, but that is not really the point. The point is that Technobabe gave it to me. I’m chuffed because she is – in … Continue reading
Do you? Ever miss your old life? It is half term break and my children, as is usual, have spent the first half of it with their fathers. They left Sunday night and so Monday morning – feeling ever so … Continue reading
