Apparently January is the month for booking your Summer holidays so, far be it from me to buck the trend, I’ve been thinking long and hard about ours. However the whole process takes ages...
Mum’s Gone to the Fire Station
There aren’t that many benefits of being a school governor, save maybe having a reserved seat for the school productions: a double-edged sword, mind you, as I usually try and slide down the chair...
Mum’s Gone to coach Billy Elliot
Who’d have thought my talent for impersonating Cheryl Cole every Saturday night for my long-suffering family would reap dividends. During the endless weeks of X Factor, I blathered on to my family, “EEEEH ye...
Mum’s Gone to join the meme, despite being NFI
I’ve been looking at all the “favourite photo” memes over the last few days and, rather than keep sulking that I’m NFI, took a leaf out of Kelloggsville’s book and decided just to post...
Mum’s Gone to the Whorehouse
That grabbed your attention, didn’t it?! Now I know this sounds like a novel way of earning a bit of pin money in these recession-hit times, but needs must….. Of course not!! (said in...
2009 highlights – The High-Five Meme
Many thanks to Very Bored Housewife for saving me from a day of floor-cleaning and Christmas-decoration-removal by tagging me in a “High Five Meme”, my top five highlights of 2009. A highlight for 2010...
Mum’s Gone to Have a Lie Down
My Boys – with matching dvds Christmas Eve, nearly midnight, and my son Rory had decided not to go to sleep. I’m sure this was a familiar scene across the globe but in this...
Mum’s Gone to Buy her Own Present
Out in my wellies AGAIN! Whilst visiting other blogs this weekend (I know, I should really have been making my own mince-pies and creating salt-dough decorations like other good mothers but a coffee, Twix...