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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
PHEW. So far so good. My youngest child enjoyed his first day at his new school. I surprised myself by crying after I’d walked away from him – it suddenly all felt so final – all three of my kids at proper grown-up schools and in a blink they’ll all have flown the nest.
Needless to say I got over it quite quickly.
When I picked him up he looked all happy – talked me through the whole day – mostly what he’d had for lunch – he thought he’d been given “beetroot crumble” until it turned out to be apple and blackberry crumble.
He was awarded “Player Of The Day” by his football coach in PE which I”m REALLY pleased about because you can’t get much better than that on Day One. He’s made some friends and likes his teacher and, and, and,
and, I shall just hold my breath for a minute because after a few days of lots more homework etc, from experience they begin to find it all gets a bit relentless and he’ll no doubt not feel quite so upbeat.
WILLIAM HAGUE’S VERY PERSONAL STATEMENT
3. September 2010
Sorry – on a current affairs roll here….but just feel a brief mention required about William Hague’s extraordinary personal statement about not being gay. I do feel sorry for him but WHAT WAS HE THINKING?? I don’t think many of us were aware of the cybergossip and his decision to release a statement [...]
Continue reading and leave comments...FAMILY MEAL REPLACED BY “TWO DINNERS”
2. September 2010
There is further evidence of the decline of the family meal with one in three mothers cooking “double dinners”.
How many of you parents out there eat with your children every night?
Apparently we mostly cook two meals now. One for the children around 5pm and one for ourselves and our partner around 8pm. [...]
BLAIR’S MEMOIRS
2. September 2010
The news is full of quotes taken from Tony Blair’s memoirs entitled “A Journey”, released in the UK yesterday.
Apparently the books have been flying off the shelves. Which surprises me. I’m glad I’m not a publisher, I wouldn’t have thought it would have been a bestseller in this current climate and certainly wouldn’t [...]
END OF SUMMER HOLIDAYS
1. September 2010
I am nearly blind from sewing on nearly 85,000 new name tags. My children are stressed and will all be completely grumpy and exhausted in the morning when I have to wake them up about 8 hours earlier than they have been up all summer holiday. Does anybody have a megaphone I can [...]
Continue reading and leave comments...“SHAME” – NEW SINGLE BY ROBBIE WILLIAMS AND GARY BARLOW
1. September 2010
Being a HUGE Robbie Williams fan – I have to say I’m very disappointed with the new single due to be released in October. It’s just the two of them crooning with some terrible lyrics. My daughter likes it though and maybe it’s a grower (as we used to say in the [...]
Continue reading and leave comments...18TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
31. August 2010
I was very flattered yesterday to be invited to my first 18th birthday party for ummm at least 25 years. Builder Bloke and I were on Mohito duties.
Talk about feeling old though – being surrounded the most gorgeous bunch of girls in very short skirts and very high shoes is enough to [...]
3. September 2010
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