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.…

Blog, Listen, when I tell you that I’ve missed our exchanges…….or rather non-exchanges as it’s one way (thank goodness computers can’t answer you back……YET!). Radio 4. The Archers. Omnibus. They used my favourite poem for Jolene and Kenton’s marriage ceremony!!!!!!!!! I found this quite shocking. I don’t think it has the same resonance? sense? feeling?…

Hey Blog, How has your day been? Up and down? Too many exclamation points giving you a headache? Now, My family are well and truly onto me. Not the family I have haphazardly produced…..no, the original of My Family. The mob who created, molded, fashioned the person that I am today. Which means, I molded,…

Dear blog, In my case, things drown out of sight, fade in the shadow of closer people……ie my family. Just to say IVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU. I have forgotten lots of other things but not you , dearest blog. Since I last blogged we’ve had more dramas than the Archers Omnibus. Now, as I’ve finally…