Posts in the "BLOG" Category

  • Often things happen during the week that provide what I call blog fodder.  This weekend was back to back activity and could have provided enough fodder for three weeks postings.
    As I’m moving house in four days and, quite frankly, suffering ‘Moving Fatigue’ I’m going to do a condensed version. Except it’s not condensed, it’s a [...]

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  • I got to work this morning, I work in an old converted mill.  We are lucky that we have our own toilet in our office, but there are also some toilets that service the rest of the mill.  This was stuck to the door of the male toilets.
    It made my Monday morning …
    POLITE NOTICE
    There is [...]

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  • Thumping head aside the packing of the house has stalled till tomorrow. We move in 8 days.
    Last night the buyers of our house came to look round. I only remembered 10 minutes before they were due to arrive and managed to; Hoover up the carpet of dog hair, remove my bra from the landing, make the beds, [...]

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  • Last night my head hurt, it had been building all day at work. A migraine throbbing behind my eyes. I couldn’t look at the light.
    I managed to put the 4 year old to bed and then went and crawled under my duvet, blocking out all the light. I sighed, glad of the relief.
    Five minutes later [...]

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  • This post is for Tara Lara’s Gallery. Can you believe we are on Week 19 of The Gallery? … Amazing.  The theme is along the bearded Rolf Harris theme of ‘Can you tell what it is yet?’.
    Mine is very easy and comes with a full explanation and not a great deal of suspense. I think [...]

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  • A couple of weeks ago the 4 year old had his grommets fitted … AGAIN.
    The morning of the operation was pretty uneventful.  Lots of waiting around, convincing the anaesthesiologist that the 4 year old had only had a teeny weeny sip of milk before 6.30 was difficult and instead of being first down to theatre he was [...]

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  • Yesterday we went to visit relatives in Runcorn, Cheshire. It was my cousin’s daughter’s second birthday. Are you still with me?
    I went with my Dad, my Stepmum, the 6 year old and the 4 year old. We travelled in the same car which meant I had to sit, wedged, between my darling children [...]

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