The theme for this week’s Gallery is ‘Holidays’. Right up my street this one, though fraught with difficulty as to what to choose. In the end I plumped for some photos from...
Mum’s Gone to buy Souvenirs – Spoons and Sombreros.
One of the most enjoyable parts of a holiday is deciding which bit of touristy tat to bring home. A universal pleasure, that desperate urge to choose something you will remember forever and show lovingly to...
Mum’s Gone to Poetry Corner
What you will read below isn’t what I’d call poetry. Verse? Maybe. A ditty? Possibly. Should Pam Ayres be worried? Probably not. I wrote it when Rory was a toddler. I found it the...
Mum’s Gone to the Ball
Last weekend was our local charity ball, which every year raises a very decent amount of money for Macmillan Cancer Support, Action Medical Research and, this year, Wish Upon A Star. We must have attended every...
The Gallery – Creatures – Small Furry Animal
Two summers ago we had a fascinating fly-drive round Eastern Canada, visiting cities such as Toronto, Montreal and Quebec. A few days were spent in Ottawa, which I had read had been dubbed one...
Mum’s Gone to Sports Day
I was reading Alpha Mummy’s post on the subject of Sports Day and as my comment was in danger of being longer than the original post, I thought I should put finger to keyboard...
The Gallery – Motherhood – Rory
This little baby is now 14 years old and probably has no idea how much he was wanted and how much he is loved. We always planned to have children but didn’t think it...
Supporting Sally
A friend and colleague of mine, apparently inspired by my good self (ahem… ), has started a new blog. She has only written two posts so far but already she has me hooked and I...