Things I’ve learned from my children The coldness of snow never ceases to surprise. Shortly after this picture was taken, Boy Two complained he was cold and wet. No? School fayres are economic genius. I just paid £2 for my own wooden spoon which has painted brown and disguised as a reindeer. You can take […]
Vorticity and a different domestic stumbling block
In some ways it’s been a happy week domestically… For one, the Panther of News was off work. His notion of idle afternoons saving a virtual universe didn’t quite match the reality, but on the other hand, my vision of having my own husband-shaped Nigella/Miss Moneypenny sorting out the household Stuff wasn’t quite reality either. […]
One boy’s disaster…
Things I learned from the Sky + box packing in. My mild inconvenience is someone else’s disaster.The Sky + box stopped working this week. This means there was no way to get the hundreds of channels normally available into the telly in the sitting room. There are radios in almost every room, a digibox in […]
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CBeebies Song Time – it’s worth the money
Kate expectations: The pop princess and the commoner queen
Bogie man alert, what would you do?
I’m feeling a slightly uneasy wind blowing around the Palace of Bundance at the moment. I’m in something of a quandary. A couple of weeks ago a child was attacked in the village next to ours. After school this 12-year-old was forced from the pavement onto the cycletrack that runs through the area. By all […]