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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A modern fable

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Not mine, but worth bunging in here I think. The three bears.A far more accurate account of the events of that fateful morning…….Baby bear goes downstairs, sits in his small chair at the table. He looks into his small bowl. It is empty. ‘Who’s been eating my porridge?’ he squeaks.Daddy Bear arrives at the big […]

Genius from the creator of Green Eggs and Ham

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Oh! The Places You’ll Go!by the incomparable Dr. Seuss Congratulations!Today is your day.You’re off to Great Places!You’re off and away! You have brains in your head.You have feet in your shoes.You can steer yourself any direction you choose.You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where […]

Building our hopes up

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The chance is so small you couldn’t see it with a microscope, but it’s possible someone cares, even slightly, about the progress of our extension. So just in case and because I care to the point of obsession I thought I’d bring an update. So far – about halfway through the project – things are […]

What’s it Cracked up to be?

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Here amid the builders’ debris and bones with Panther tooth marks on them we’ve been enjoying the new STV drama Cracked. It’s about the residents of a private rehab clinic and how they, and their disparate dysfunctions, interact. The couple, Rory and Louise, who run the clinic, are fighting their own battles as their daughter, […]

‘King outrageous

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OK – it was handy.Boy Two had just been to the doctor to get the manky bits on his feet inspected (verucca type thingy and athlete’s foot, since you ask) so we were rushing to get to his piano lessons. Oh the seat-of-the pants mental calculations involved. Do we have time to get home, cook […]

Shore is different

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Two weeks later. Same M&S Cossie, same ocean… but things couldn’t have been more different.I wonder the bods on the nudist beach the previous week looked at me with the same mix of curiosity and puzzlement as I looked at the women in their abayat and niqab. I was the most underdressed woman by some […]

Nudes flash

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Panther is muttering into his beer, an odd look on his face. “What?”“That woman over there…”“Yes.” He’s looking at half of an unremarkable couple tucking into paella on the other side of the restaurant. She seems to me like she’d probably choose to read Woman’s Own at the hairdresser.“I’ve seen her bits,” he confesses. “All […]

Buy heck

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Saturday was retail therapy day and for once I had a good excuse. Honest. The wardrobe only held two pairs of non-maternity trousers that were up to the job. They weren’t well worn as before AM they were reserved for the fattest of fat days. Nonetheless, alone they were not going to cut it for […]