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Mum’s Gone to a Burns’ Supper – at home.

Trish Burgess Posted on24/01/201007/04/2016 Lucky Dip 20 Comments

It’s Burns Night tomorrow and my thoughts return to some fond memories from last year when I realised it was “my turn” to have friends over for a meal. It was only after we’d all

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Mum’s Gone to the Phallus Museum – Shiny Happy People Meme

Trish Burgess Posted on21/01/201007/04/2016 10 Comments

After a good giggle yesterday with Linda at “You’ve got your hands full” regarding regional accents, we somehow got talking about the Julie Walters “Two Soups” sketch. Later that evening the sketch turned up again

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Mum’s Gone to Book the Summer Holiday

Trish Burgess Posted on19/01/201004/04/2017 9 Comments

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 as

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Mum’s Gone to the Fire Station

Trish Burgess Posted on14/01/201007/04/2016 Lucky Dip 9 Comments

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 to

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Mum’s Gone to coach Billy Elliot

Trish Burgess Posted on11/01/201007/04/2016 Musical Theatre/Am dram/Entertainment 16 Comments

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 just

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Mum’s Gone to join the meme, despite being NFI

Trish Burgess Posted on08/01/201007/04/2016 Lucky Dip 9 Comments

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 my

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Mum’s Gone to the Whorehouse

Trish Burgess Posted on04/01/201007/04/2016 Musical Theatre/Am dram/Entertainment 9 Comments

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 a

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2009 highlights – The High-Five Meme

Trish Burgess Posted on02/01/201007/04/2016 Lucky Dip 2 Comments

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 already

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