It would seem that everyone in my house currently has a cold, flu like symptoms, or other deadly diseases that involves coughing and spluttering! I have been teaching my little girl to put her hand over her mouth to stop the germs making their way across my meals. I know this is selfish, but I […]
Apparently every child goes through a phase of using masses of paper. In fact, in our house, it feels like it’s fast becoming as expensive as the mortgage payments! I feel embarrassed every time I go to purchase our gargantuan family pack of loo rolls each month as you would think we have a permanent […]
Dinner, especially posh dinners, where bad manners are not a band from the eighties but a terrible habit no longer considered socially acceptable, are rare. When we’ve been invited out to eat there are normally pauses between courses, and that’s when chaos normally ensues! Why do people invite me? I have children, we eat like […]
I swear getting dressed as a child was quicker in my day. Five minutes and I could be out of the door, after all, as a child you don’t need to wash. As my little girl would tell you, “I had a wash yesterday, and my teeth look ok.” My little girl is now five […]
I was left to my own devices yesterday with the children and was smiling as the wife left, whilst internally panicking! I asked the children who would like a cake and a coffee, and just before you start shouting obscenities, the coffee was for me, the children always have what can only be described as […]