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My workspace is supposedly off limits to the kids -nevertheless, I  buy ‘fine’ pens in bulk, ’cause once the kids get a hold of them they’re anything but fine and they’re not easy to come by where we live. Most of the people I work for know that I work from home and many are families anyway so understand what  goes with that, but the look this morning when Lightening Mcqueen rolled out of the cylinder ...

The man of the house has excelled himself with my birthday present this year, I giggled ’till I had pains in my side (and in my back thanks to that nasty sciatic nerve thing that accompanies 3 pregnancies in quick succession) A well thought through and and ever so appropriate gift: custom made  t-shirt  with a great big KAOS (if you’re a 60’s/70’s child and fan of ‘Get Smart̵ emblem on the back and these ...

There are not many things I can say I was better at in my early 20’s than I am now. Having only had the opportunity to indulge in a lovely comforting Baileys n milk maybe 10 times total in the past 4 years, tonight I conceede I seem to have lost the knack for making a decent drink.

Pour in the Baileys.. no probs.. pour in the milk …

my Mummy brain kicks in and I have diluted it 1 ...

My kids have been singing this for MONTHS. At first we had no idea.

We kept asking where they heard it and they kept telling us "the ‘Cars’ movie", still we had no idea.  Having absorbed the ambience of it at least once a fortnight since June we consider ourselves quite familiar with it! (Of course, no where in the league of ‘Wiggledance" which both of us can repeat word for word in it’s entireity ie: songs and ...

Today, what began as a simple act of kindness has manged to make me unbelievably cross ..equally annoying is that I don’t feel safe mentioning it to any of my friends and aside from, let’s see, husband - tick,  mum - tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. (mum’s are good like that - though now I am feeling a bit mean for being so quick to snap "you’ve told me" when mine isn’t  sure whether it was me or ...