Good afternoon/Bonjour/Hi/Hey/G’day, dearest blog, 18.00 The clanging of plates as they are placed on the table. The clank of cutlery, counted out into 6 forks and 6 knives and one small knife and small fork. The slapping down of two boards onto the table so that hot dishes can be placed on them. The burble…

Dear Blog, Happy New Year? I don’t know about you, but I am struggling this year…..the all what? two weeks of it. I feel laden. Heavy under the weight of what? Life? the family? the pile of washing? broken new year’s resolutions (erm…..pelvic floor exercises and learn one more swear word in French – the…

Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin ran away…….. Yo ho ho dear blog, This Christmas Eve here in Nowhere finds: -sickness -lack of guests – well, we have one guest who keeps peeing underneath the Christmas Tree but the other expected guests called to say they won’t make it (how I wish I’d known this last…

(Father) Blog, It has been (about) 15 days since my last confession…… My sins? Well, I’ve committed a few minor ones which include: swearing, swearing, swearing, thinking bad thoughts about my husband and children, more swearing, further bad thoughts of family, swearing…. oh and I smiled at a man who isn’t my husband in Carrefour.…

Gems from tonight’s dinner table Starring: The Face With no introduction to any particular topic: ‘yeah, so Mexicans don’t have chocolate at Easter.’ -‘oh really? what do they do or have?’ ‘they crucify themselves………… with ropes. They don’t use nails any more.’ Closely followed by: ‘they (the mexicans, I can only assume), have a river…

Howdy blog and new follower from Texas! November, like February, is one of those rubbish months. Rubbish in terms of weather; rubbish in terms of it’s not yet Christmas (but the threats   bribes encouragements to the kids begin in earnest) and rubbish as it begins with a remember the dead day which is then…

Bonsoir Bloggy and my 9 followers…… Hang on – need to turn down LBC radio as I don’t really need to hear the traffic update for London (including two people knocked down by the 252 bus in Romford today……outside the Liberty Shopping Centre. I hope they weren’t jumping over the barriers to cross the road.…