Social media taking up too much time? Why not take this simple quiz and find out where you should concentrate your creative energy. —————————————– You are at a party when someone you have never met before says something profoundly moving about something in the news. For example ‘That Nelson Mandela was a nice fella now […]
As a parent you spend a lot of time and effort trying to persuade your children to do something for the first time only to realise, too late, that life was better before they learnt this skill.
We are going away skiing for a whole week. Without the kids. Mr Eeh Bah is worried we will miss them. ‘I’m worried we’ll miss the kids.’ He moans. ‘But there’s free champagne and a hot tub’. I reply incredulous. ‘A week is a long time to be away.’ He claims. Not when you’re drunk […]
Christmas is for children. Which is weird because mine have put in zero effort so far. Here are a few things you need to know about the festive season with children. Christmas trees are dangerous Even if you have those well behaved small children who never climb shelves and frisbee books at your face Christmas […]
William Morris said ‘Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful’. I chant this every time I enter Poundland. But still the beautiful, useful crap keeps piling up and every time I move from the sink to the fridge I have to wade through 4 inches of plastic food.We have a plan to entice our daughter into playing in her bedroom. Apparently the answer is simple: A rug.
People joke about women buying candles and cushions but no one ever mentions men and their obsession with rugs and offensively patterned duvet covers.
The other morning at 6.30 I was woken by my daughter’s hot sweaty face pressed up to mine on the pillow asking ‘Do banisters have legs?’ I had to think about this for a while. Not the bit about banisters having legs. I know banisters do not have legs even at 6.30 in the morning. […]
Early morning, we are all in the car. Eeh Bah Son is screaming loudly the rest of us are screaming quietly on the inside. Eeh Bah Daughter: I spy with my little eye something beginning with car. There are no other cars. Eeh Bah Mum: Is it a car? Eeh Bah Daughter: Yes. Laughs manically […]
Despite Googling ‘how to make a shit hot flow chart’ + ‘hedgehog in a party hat’ the Internet was not forthcoming. All I found were boring people talking about boring stuff I couldn’t be arsed to listen to.
Seriously techy peeps there is a definite gap in the market for engaging tech guides presented by woodland creatures wearing novelty head gear.
So anyway to cut a long, dull story short I downloaded something that did stuff it shouldn’t and ended up sitting in front of all the files on my server, and, well, er….
You know those files you shouldn’t delete? I deleted them.
I am desperate. It is too cold to venture out and Eeh Bah Son is not well. Plus I bumped the car in our rush to get to the doctors and have got the fear behind the wheel again. Desperate times call for desperate measures. We are staying in. We are going to make mince […]
When you become a mother a whole new world of worry opens up to you: Am I a good mum? Are my children happy? Will they pick up their father’s southern accent? But for me the biggie, the one that keeps me awake at night, is the thought that I could wake up one morning […]
