Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to youuuu!!

T, Happy Birthday my dear, what a great way to celebrate it!

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Imagine…

Amazing that T is probably there by now and wandering about the most beautiful city on earth. Hey there T, I hope this finds you well!!!

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…aaaand, she’s off!!!

So we say goodbye - for now! - to T who jets off to Aus in the next couple of days. Not without a sense of wistful ‘me-too’ wishing that just won’t go away.
We’ve talked before about the grass being greener, or at least appearing that way, but you can’t deny the power of suggestion. Particularly [...]

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Bronchioles? Ouch!

I wasn’t just tired, I was getting ill.
That’s the thing about illness - you forget it can happen to you and then you get blindsided. I normally shrug colds off easily, but this one has gone to my chest and dug itself in. The doctor asked how long I’d been feeling grotty and when I [...]

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Worn out from Cooking

I am ashes where once I was fire. All sparked up at the start of the weekend, blithely ignoring the cold that threatened to lay me out. Had lovely Julesy & Butters to stay, did my best to welcome them in and suceeded in the main I think, but am now so cream crackered lovely [...]

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Money for old rope

Well, call me the Queen of Sour Grapes but I’ve never heard so much tosh in all my days. £70k for a blog?! It’s amazing for the woman in question that she’s been taken up at this level, and more power to her arm. But, really, how many people blog away with great fluency and [...]

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Baby Bookworm

R has a small library stacking up in his playpen now, a pile which includes a peepo book with flaps to lift called Peekaboo Baby, a treatise on difference in dogs called Big Dog, Small Dog; the Very Hungry Caterpillar (board book) and a couple of other lesser works (!)
He’ll now pick one of these [...]

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Visiting Season Starts Here

Hooray, hooray for visitors.
We have Julesy and Butters coming to stay this weekend. The best bit about folk coming to stay is that you do things round the house that you have been putting off. R and I spent an hour yesterday cleaning and rearranging the bathroom - he helped by brandishing my big fluffy ‘tickling-stick’ [...]

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Fatitude platitudes

Someone said to me when I started Slimming World that the last pound or so was the hardest to lose. After putting on a pound last week, and realising that I am obsessing about it, I decided to do something.
So I was reading the paper today and there’s a guy called Albert Ellis who pioneered Rational [...]

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Busybees

Running about seeing friends - a really great weekend so far, and it doesn’t end here, because we’re out to dinner at R’s little friend D’s parents tonight - they wanted an excuse to make a full dress roast dinner and we’re it! Fantastic - I’m game anytime for being the reason for a meal [...]

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