This is not strictly relevant to the following post except that it sums up better than any other photo I have how today has made me feel....

Are you aged two (and up)? Are you bored? Have you got no-one to play with but your own shadow? Try some of the new games May Blossom has...

Which of the two following stories is scarier? Thing 1. This week I saw a new physiotherapist. She told me I should wear what can only be...

I think we all feel like this today. Because of the wonders of Facebook, I know, for certain, that everyone else in the civilised world...

May Blossom playing ‘Caesarean Sections’ with her play-doh. Earlier this evening I was in the bath, eating a piece of toast with peanut...

Let’s just get this, in a six-seater version with loads of airbags. We need to get a new car. I find this simultaneously a very boring...

Lunch out with a tiny nun always helps. I haven’t been feeling very good lately. It’s nothing that the birth of NB won’t fix (or possibly...

There’s not a lot of coherent narrative flow going on in my life right now, and so, to reflect that, here are some random observations...

Things have been awfully quiet, here on Life With Gusto. That’s because real life has been a bit hectic. Hectic and befuddling and tiring...

The next book we’re borrowing from the library is ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. Right now one of May Blossom’s favourite books is We’re...

One of the many stunning gender-neutral outfits May Blossom will be handing down to her sibling. According to the medical establishment I...

1. You have to stay somewhere as good or better than home. My very clever friend Other Jess once told me this, and I think she is right....

We have just spent seven days on a dude ranch in southern Colorado with my extended family on my mother’s side. We do this every couple...

Is it just the hair? On Play School Humpty’s hair is usually styled with a centre part, but the toy’s hair just wants to go to one side....

Wild scenes: May Blossom out of control in the moshpit. Tip her over, pour her out. We’ve just returned from the Play School Concert. If...

This pregnancy I have been plagued with insomnia, which is not something I have ever experienced before. I was the kid who could fall...

Um, no. I haven’t got a good reason. I was just off, you know, living my life and trying to keep warm. Oh, and GROWING A HUMAN, too,...

A mother, on the other hand, in my humble experience of less than two years, is more like the shell of a person. The stretched out, faded...

May Blossom searching for the truth. Right now if you were to ask May Blossom to state, for the benefit of the tape, her full name, she...

Here’s a blurry picture of the creature to be known henceforth as NB. Those are the initials of its in utero name, but could equally...