Family Affairs

WELL DONE SPAIN

My 17 year old has gone on holiday with six other boys. Wearing ridiculous tour T-shirts and mexican hats and HOW worrying to let them go and even as he walked out the door I was still doing my “don’t die, don’t overdo it, don’t drink to much, don’t drown, speak to strangers, be rude, don’t forget to say thank you, don’t let your drink get spiked, don’t get anyone pregnant, don’t wander off with strangers, don’t get ill, don’t catch crabs AND SO ON…..” until his ears had virtually melted. Although, obviously they hadn’t melted because he wasn’t listening to me anyway.

It’s so difficult as a mother to let go – I wouldn’t let him go last year away just with mates, but I am a firm believer that they have to go and do stuff on their own, work it out for themselves, be part of the big bad exciting world – no cotton wool kids for me. Might even let him cycle on the pavement without a helmet when he gets back. I left home when I was 17.

BUT you can see why I wanted Spain to win the world cup. Because he’s there and I texted him after the game and he replied “mum, it’s AMAZING” and I can only imagine just how wonderful it would have been to be in Spain yesterday. All that joy and love and our boys would all have been caught up in all that wonderful emotion. Just lovely.

I’m away from my desk briefly. With friends and kids and it is fab. I’ll put some pictures up soon – see if you can guess where I am.

I had a panic yesterday because I couldn’t access my blog at all and because I am useless I had to email my WGM (web god man) and he could tell from the tone that he needed to look straight away and then he called me on a Sunday and said he thought that I’d been HACKED!!! Mad panic, but secretly a little bit pleased because although I don’t understand what it means, I thought it all sounded quite important and a bit sad for the hacker when he/she found that they hadn’t accessed top secret information about the bank of England, but, well, precisely nothing worth breaking into at all…..

All seems to be back to normal but if you come across any strange (shitf*ckbollocks) sort of strange behaviour – you know, rude comments or swear words, please let me know.

ROCK CHOIR HAMMERSMITH APOLLO “SOMTHING INSIDE SO STRONG”

Two of my friends were at the filming of this event on the 20th June 2010. They have both become part of the latest cult following and don’t seem to be able to stop singing and dancing at any opportunity. It appears that we have lost them both to this strange new phenomenon [...]

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CYBERMUMMY CONFERENCE

What a great day I had yesterday. The CyberMummy Conference was fab. Just so great to meet lots of my invisible friends in the flesh – especially Expat Mum who flew in from Chicago. It was a huge success and they even managed to get into page two of The Financial Times [...]

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LIFE ACADEMY WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Internet Explorer have just announced the winners of this year’s Life Academy. Internet Explorer 8 Life Academy was a national competition launched to give 18-25 year olds a chance to explore their future potential and win a £10,000 grant to make their socially responsible idea a reality.
The competition saw 268 entrants whittled down to [...]

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GAGGING ORDER ON THE TRUTH BEHIND THE ENGLAND FOOTBALL TEAM?

There is a text flying about regarding why our football team performed so badly. Anybody else heard about this? Apparently there is a gagging order regarding the private life of one of the players all about an affair and a pregnancy and some very bad behaviour. This resulted in a split in the camp between two players in particular and much tension all round as the team took sides.

Are bloggers supposed to adhere to press gagging orders?? Not sure it would be appropriate to name names……

Don’t think I’m brave enough to find out.

None of my business anyway….

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“THE WANTED” – “ALL TIME LOW”

We are playing “All Time Low” a lot in our house at the moment, which is the debut single coming out next month by the incredibly gorgeous new boy band “The Wanted”.   Personally, I think it will be the No.1 single within the month. Lets see.

Here is the video of their new song. Very strong for a first single I think. Going to be big:-

My daughter loves them and is deliriously happy because she trapped them at the Clothes show and managed to get a very good photo of them all with her:-

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CYBERMUMMY CONFERENCE

My daughter has been collecting photographs of gorgeous hairstyles. I hadn’t realised why until yesterday. Apparently she has to get her hair done before her father picks her up from my house for the wedding. I offered to do it for her but she said “mum, are you KIDDING? You’d make it look rubbish on purpose”. I SO wouldn’t. I think short pink hair with shaved sides would look really good with her gorgeous grey dress.

We went to book her appointment yesterday – “I’m having my hair done for my dad’s wedding” she told them with me standing next to her and it was sort of fine when they looked at me in a puzzled way, but also sort of really really weird. Then she called her dad to tell him that it was going to cost £50 (!!!) and he said “fine, but ask your mother to pay”.

Expecting me to pay for my daughter’s hairstyle for my ex-husband’s wedding to Builder Bloke’s ex-wife just about says everything I need to know about where I stand in the equation.

Precisely nowhere.

Needless to say lovely daughter texted him to say “I don’t think it would be fair to ask mum, she might get upset”.

Thankfully, I’ve got the most perfect day on Saturday for MAJOR distraction purposes….I have to go out early so won’t get to see her looking beautiful for her father’s wedding which is probably for the best because it will kill me and then I’d cry and spoil it for the kids. Instead I’ll be at the CyberMummy Conference (I’m sure there is a perfectly good explanation but what are the CyberDaddy’s doing with their day?) where I will get to meet lots of my invisible friends in the flesh and learn what an RSS feed is (yes, I know that after three years I should get all that stuff). Even better for total distraction tactics is that I’ve been asked to speak which means I’ll be shitting myself for the entire day and not thinking about my daughter’s expensive hair style at all……

Just perfect.

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