If you thought that heading was rotten, don’t get your hopes up for an improvement. I was tagged in a blog by the lovely Qwerty mum to come up with seven things you don’t know about me. So, in the interests of work avoidance, I picked up the bloggy baton and thought of a few. […]
More blushes from the archives of shame…
I’m sitting here blushing. Yes, actually. With a proper red face. I think I’ve got away with it because my colleagues will probably think it’s a hot flush. The reason is a post I wrote this week for Ready for Ten about the funny things parents do – me particularly. I talked about the time […]
Little trivia party…
I did give a moment’s thought to summing up the past three years in terms of their huge events – of which there are many. Then I thought “nah, we’ve had enough of all the funerals, weddings, jobs, pregnancies and so on. Time for a little levity”. So I decided to share some little-known facts […]
Out of the oven…
My name is Ellen and yesterday I bought a deep fat fryer. There now you know my latest secret. I’ve never owned one and only used one once while I was the chef on a luxury motor yacht. It was stormy and the whole frying thing was presented some less-common challenges at the time.In theory, […]
What I’m worrying about today
Fret, fret, bother, bother, sigh, fidget.Here I am. worrying. What? No nothing special, or unusual.I seem to be going through a little phase of self-discovery, or navel gazing because it’s less effort than digging the next-size-up car seat out from under the stairs.In any case, I realise I spend a lot of internal dialogue time […]