Kids TV
You know you are subjected to far too much children's television when you find yourself genuinely mulling over the following observations, or maybe I just need a life? Below are just a small fraction...
View ArticleThe C Lists
Hoorah, two things to strike off the christmas bucket list!This year whilst making their Christmas lists I gave The Spawn some catalogs, kiddie scissors and glue sticks and let them have at it. It...
View ArticleThose smug breastfeeders
The problem with breastfeeding is, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. Formula feeders are forever lamenting that they're judged negatively and unfairly, yet I've been a formula...
View ArticlePlease Mr Postman
It feels like a lifetime has passed since I had the appointment. It's almost as if it never really happened at all, all that bravery to finally face things head on, face to face seemingly wasted....
View ArticleJust another day
You know you're in for a bad day when it starts with The Toddler attempting to kick the shit out of Thing One, again and then decides to practice pole dancing up a siblings leg.I'm doing a mighty fine...
View ArticlePromised myself I wouldn't weep.
The thing with having long term invisible illness' is that you're either written off or else people assume that you're over it. It's the ongoing part that people struggle to digest. That and the...
View ArticleLost in translation.
There's certain things, often simple things, that you may ask your child to do yet they rarely ever will...* "Sit still" be it for a haircut or a photo, if you ask them to sit still they'll develop an...
View ArticleWhere do you hide yours?
So you barely survive the actual shopping part of Christmas presents with some remnants of sanity still intact using tactics such as a present for them, a Gin for me etc then you realise, it's not...
View ArticleNobody said it was easy.
There's a point when blogging publicly where you started out just writing, it was all about the words and then suddenly a door opens to a world of numbers, hungry carnivorous numbers that eat into the...
View ArticleEmpty.
What happens when you have no idea who you really are? We’re not talking basics such as name, address, history etc we’re talking the inside part, the part that makes you, you. What do you do when you...
View ArticleHotel Chocolat Review
The lovely people at Hotel Chocolat very kindly sent me one of their Christmas Goody Bags, from their current christmas range, to review. Seeing as chocolate comprises of all five of my five a day, I...
View ArticleActivity Toys Direct Play Ambassador: Step2 Creative Projects Table
We are one of the incredibly lucky blogger families to be a 2013/14 Play Ambassador for Activity Toys Direct and for our first review they kindly sent us aStep2 Creative Projects Table which they...
View ArticleIt's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....
Yet it doesn't feel it. Yes, i'm absolutely not feeling Christmas this year. The tree has been up since the first as have the decorations, the turkey is in the freezer and the presents are finally...
View ArticleBah Humbug!
As a family we're not ones for traditions as such, especially Christmas ones probably due to our cynical and hermetic nature. We don't have any accessible family or friends so parties and gatherings...
View ArticleIntermission
Sometimes there is nothing to say. Sometimes there is everything to say but no words to say it. Silence isn't always silent.
View ArticleYes, I'm awful and mean.
I anticipate that this particular entry will make me rather unpopular, yet what is the point of having an opinion and a blog and not marrying the two, neh? This isn't meant to offend, it's merely an...
View ArticleBOGOF! Plan three get one free!
In case the previous post was a tad too cryptic for you (i.e you're far too young to possibly remember Ice Ice Baby....)So, here's the deal After begrudgingly coming to term with the fact that The...
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