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Panic Stations

Like sorting Lego into colours, listing your worries makes you feel like you’re making progress. In both cases this is an illusion. I’m...

Outstanding

First prize for The Pun With The Most Elaborate Set-up: H announced this morning that his watch is set to 'Green H mean time'. We’re back...

Gracious Is My Middle Name

I actually had a very, very nice birthday. May Blossom decided that I should enjoy the day for as many hours as possible so she got up at...

Do As I Say, Not As I Do.

Last week I was grating a raw beetroot into a pot of soup (this soup, incidentally, which is so delicious I almost ate H’s portion before...

She Is Sixteen, Going On Seventeen (Months)

May Blossom loves to play. Anything that involves chasing, shrieking and creating mayhem gets her seal of approval. Yesterday she and her...

You’re So Money

In other areas of my life in which I am clearly not money, I went back to the gym today for the first time since I was five months...

You Be The Judge: On Playgroups And Tantrums

It probably wasn’t as awful to others as it was to me, but most of the other mums there have two or more kids, and I suddenly felt like a...

There Will Be Festivity … And A Little Bit Of Begging

Decorating: done (yes, all my bookshelves are this pretentious) There are but three shopping days left until Christmas, dear reader(s)....

I Broke the Mould

Just asking. You know, for a friend. I have this friend who is very very good at ignoring housework. Other people’s filth she regards as...