Yay. Friday Club is back. As always, thanks to Ella for the inspiration and for being such a lovely host. Boo. I wanted to write a poem but I quite simply cannot get my shit together so have reverted to good old blog prose. I am absolutely dashing to make the deadline… Anyway, Bibsey my … [Read more…]
And so. I am struggling with the blog/life balance and of course life is winning hands down. And quite rightly when life has been looking a little like this… It seems that the heat has arrived here in Southern Spain and along with it picnics, barbeques and lazy días en el campo. Today we headed … [Read more…]
I dropped the blogging machine yesterday: my beautiful MacBook Pro apple-side-down on the cold hard Spanish tiles. Incredibly it is still working, but now it has an ugly hairline crack on the once pristine trackpad. And a bit of a scratch on one of its corners. So my window on the world is still open, … [Read more…]
Ever since we brought the baby home from the hospital I don’t seem to have stopped uttering the phrase ‘I just need to…’ or, more recently, ‘Mummy just needs to…’. Needs to what? What is it that Mummy ‘just’ needs to do? Well, take your pick: Mummy just needs to: do the washing up, put … [Read more…]
Please let me not be the only one who has done terrible things to her baby. Here is the beginning of a long list of utterly dreadful things that I have inflicted on my child out of shear desperation, confusion and sleep deprivation… #1. Forcing a dummy (something that she has never abided) into her mouth … [Read more…]
