Boy One was moaning about the huge effort it was taking to scrape the goopy stuff out of his pumpkin. “You’re lucky you’ve got pumpkins,” said I. “In my day we had turnips and that was a horrible job – it took ages and the turnip stank. The whole job made your arms ache.” I […]
Strategies For Losing Weight & Keeping It Off
Losing weight is a difficult challenge in itself and keeping it off is even harder, thankfully today we have access to supplements like thermogenic that will make everything easier. You have to be fully committed to staying on track and following a plan of attack if you want to be successful in the long run. […]
What did you do at the weekend?
Anyone else over 50 find it takes considerable effort to answer this one? A grinding of gears and a cranking look round at the two days of domesticity and idleness peppered by parental duties. “Pretty quiet. Nice, though,” does the job. I suppose no one is really that interested in anyone’s weekend until the answer […]
Hopes for Indian summer fade…
There it was, the first proper weather of the season. Storm Ali romped across the country causing considerable inconvenience. I had to change my plans and catch a bus. Heaven forfend. Boy Two abandoned his bus stop vigil when his hands went numb, and the garden is in more disarray than usual. It wasn’t always […]
Postcards from the hedge
Where’s mummy? A domestic snapshot
Where’s mummy? She can’t be far away, it’s not a very big house. Where’s mummy? Have you tried the kitchen? She’s often there. Where’ s mummy? At her desk, trying to hit a deadline… No? Where’s mummy? Putting washing in the machine. Taking washing out of the machine. Folding washing. Occasionally ironing it. Where’s mummy? […]
100 days of blogging
Or yet another attempt to get into gear… I’ve been wrestling with my blog lately. Oddly, I’ve allowed all sorts of irrelevant nonsense (feeding children, vanquishing squalor) to get in the way. And this has made me sad. Not the fed children or the less horrid house, but that it doesn’t matter how hard you […]