Family Affairs

ONLY FIVE??? Out of 33? That’s pretty impressive. I’d definitely be showing signs of full blown depression by now. I cannot imagine what it is like for them to be stuck in the middle of the earth. WHY have they been told how long it’s going to take them to [...]

We all had a lovely time together for my father’s 70th birthday celebrations although sadly he wasn’t able to join us for both evenings as it was all a bit too much for him after his recent operation. Must have been a nightmare for him to have to sit through a meal listening to [...]

We are all off (minus teenage son) to celebrate my father’s 70th birthday. I am SO looking forward to it – my brother’s will be there with their families and whilst my father is not brilliant, it’s a huge relief to know that the last operation has helped and he is getting a little [...]

This is HUGE news in our house. Daughter completely traumatised……JOSIE has escaped!
I didn’t watch Big Brother this time. Enough already. BUT we started watching the Celebrity version and I immediately liked Josie who won the last Big Brother. Very down to earth and frankly I think she’s done exactly the right [...]

RIGHT. That’s it. I am NEVER going shopping with my teenage daughter again.
Of course I am hugely proud and smug that she has now become the rainbow and I the faded old cloud, BUT honestly, if you want to be invisible, go out with her. EVERYBODY looks at her. [...]

I have made a huge mistake by going on our family summer holiday WAY too early. Now kids all BOOOOOOORED with nothing to do and I can’t be arsed to rush around in manner of alpha parent taking them to museums and art galleries.
OBVIOUSLY, I would normally behave like that but I still have [...]

I hope that it was no coincidence that a few days after mentioning that I had taken my father a jar of Nutella in the hope that it would perk him up a bit I got invited to join a group of bloggers for a Nutella Breakfast briefing at Legoland.
I mentioned this to a male [...]