Roses are red, crocodiles are snappy, He might not be perfect,but my Panther makes me happy… OK so it’s not going to win any literary prizes, but it’s sort of the spirit of the day. Eh, Snookums? Fluffy bunny-bum? A dozen red cliches and some scratchy pants.Valentine’s Day is clearly a load of commercialised tosh […]
How I’m Turning Into My Mother
Other things I’ve learned. I’m definitely Turning Into My Mother. Today I was pondering the items to add to my shopping list and considering that I probably should just by twice as much of the things that won’t go off – toothpaste, shampoo, maple syrup.“What’s wrong with that?” you may ask. On the face of […]
Things I learned from my children today
I’ve learned that Venice is made up of 118 islands. “That’s 118 the same as in the advert, mummy.” I’ve learned that a PSP is nothing like any of the other games machines we already own. It’s the only one you can play LittleBigPlanet on apparently. I’ve learned that there’s nothing wrong at all in […]
Panther’s birthday
A little leafy loveliness
It was family gathering time again. Another 65th birthday and the amassing of four children, their spouses and children plus three further children, their brats, bumps and other halves.It felt like heaven to let EasyJet take us away from storm-lashed Renfrewshire and set us down in Bristol, where the sun was shining. (And you don’t […]