Natural fibres and proper coffee. Meals at the table and butter in a butter dish. Bed time stories and thank you letters. My fondness for these things is what, on occasion, the Panther of News has used as evidence of my snobbery.I poopoo this notion insisting that it’s just proof that I know what I […]
Review: Ben and Holly’s Little Castle Magical Playset
Family holidays – at large without a capsule wardrobe
Pan-icking about our holiday Was a time when my holiday packing might have resembled something from a magazine. You know – the top that goes from beach to bar and you tart it up by knotting your sarong in a different way and using your sunglasses as a necklace, or something. Once, in 45 years have […]
Ten things to blog about when you don’t know what to blog about…
Food with faces I spent two days this weekend in the most inspiring company. I was at BritMumsLive! in the company of some 500 other bloggers. One of the speakers was Zoe Williams from the Guardian. She wrote Stop Insulting, Start Listening To Mums Who Blog. And that’s really where this post comes in. She said everything […]
Silent Sunday
Do men and women laugh at different things?
Or is it just me? Last night howls of laughter could be heard from the sitting room. And not just from one person – the Panther of News and the full complement of Boys were helpless with mirth. Why? They were watching this advert. And then rewinding it and watching it again.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yTUW92UNI]I watched to see what […]
Bogie-gate: How can I extract a confession?
Donuts that did, indeed, turn out like Ms Craddock’s The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play.So we sat in the house All that cold, cold wet day.But instead of Dr Seuss’s deranged feline something else presented itself to fill a soggy Saturday. A crime had been committed at the Palace of Bundance and […]