In a bun dance

If I'm going to get something, I usually get it in spades - luck (both kinds), children, clutter, dirty laundry, bright ideas, daft ideas...

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Are you a miser of sleep or a squanderer?

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I said sleep… Since Boy One appeared nearly 12 years ago, I’ve been lucky to have had lots of opportunity to study the phenomena of sleep deprivation. Before then, I was confident arrogant enough to think that anyone who moaned of lack of sleep was a wimp. I had stayed up all night to party, […]

A DAFTS idea, but it might just work…

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Brothers in harmony! Cue drums, trumpets and fireworks. I’m going to introduce the child food reprocessing system to knock your socks off. It’s called DAFTS the Dinnertime Automatic Food Transfer System. Actually it’s the brain-child of my marvellous sister and she’s a health care professional, therefore, knows stuff. Let me explain the idea behind DAFTS. […]

Sock mystery solved, a few more to go

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For fox sake… That’s it then, a domestic mystery solved. It seems that some 5000 socks and pants (yes pants!) turn up in our drains every year. This accounts for the weekly dating game I play with the lonely solo garments… and why no matter how hard you try, there are always an increasing number […]