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Now she is Five
… nearly six actually. Now that she is five she is at school from 9am until 4pm everyday. She has had her first solo playdate in the pueblo with a boy from school. She tells me that they fight “but not hitting”. OK, great. They mostly play Barbies.
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Glamp Lamp
Looks gorgeous, right? Butter wouldn’t melt? Wrong. She has just handed me the biggest bogie ever to have graced this house, wearing exactly this expression. Stay alert, people. And beware 5 year olds bearing gifts.
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Bella Vista
The view from Bibsey Towers
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On motherhood
All my glorious triumphs in motherhood and some minor hiccups...
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Life, the universe etc

in which I ponder and worry about life’s big questions… unabashed navel-gazing

Hairy like the wolf

January 29, 2013 by bibsey mama 16 Comments

Were you wondering how long I could go without mentioning my broken arm? Wonder no more. What follows is the next riveting episode in El Drama del Brazo. I may have mentioned before that I am neither blessed nor cursed in the body hair department. All other body issues aside, I am not, for example, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arse posts, Body, Life, the universe etc, Occasional confessional Tagged: Blofeld, cracked elbow, Duran Duran, elbow hair, Mr Bigglesworth

Bionic arm. Beyond cool.

November 29, 2012 by bibsey mama 11 Comments

Check out my X-ray. Check it out! Not only do I have what looks like a couple of nails and a cable-tie in embedded in my elbow, making me totally and undeniably bionic (something that I used to claim at school, circa 1977, at the height of my titanic Jaime Sommers girl crush), but also … [Read more…]

Posted in: Body, Expat files, Life, the universe etc, Spain Tagged: cracked elbow, fractured olecranon, hospital in Spain, pins and needles, X-Ray

A post for Multiple Mummy

November 24, 2012 by bibsey mama 6 Comments

Today I am devoting my blog to a woman called Kerry, Multiple Mummy. She is a wonderful wife, mother of three young children and much-loved blogger. Three months ago she suffered a brain haemorrhage following a ruptured aneurysm and has been fighting to recover  ever since. I don’t know Kerry personally, only from her blog, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Family, Life, the universe etc, Motherhood Tagged: Multiple Mummy, positive thoughts

Reasons to be cheerful

November 23, 2012 by bibsey mama 10 Comments

This is the first time that I have linked up with Reasons to be Cheerful 1, 2, 3 over at Mummy From the Heart. Generally speaking I have always got a lot to be cheerful about, but I am linking up this week because, despite a few challenges recently, I have to say that life … [Read more…]

Posted in: Life, the universe etc, Spain Tagged: cracked elbow, hairdo, nurse, Reasons to be Cheerful

#oneweek: Otoño by Octavio Paz

November 13, 2012 by bibsey mama 6 Comments

Otoño (versión posterior) Autumn (later version) by Octavio Paz El viento despierta, barre los pensamientos de mi frente y me suspende en la luz que sonríe para nadie: ¡cuánta belleza suelta! Otoño: entre tus manos frías el mundo llamea.The wind awakes, sweeps the thoughts from my forehead and suspends me in the light that smiles … [Read more…]

Posted in: Expat files, Life, the universe etc, Spanish Tagged: #oneweek, Octavio Paz, Otoño, Spanish poetry
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