Favourite Video - this mum had some guts - and thank God the kid didn't screw it up!! Love Buble's reaction when he realise the kid can sing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn5LTCueOso Favourite Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMLu1-HmkNw&feature=feedlik Book I enjoyed the most Best speech of … [Read more...]
Wonderful
Princess Child today asked "do you ever have a day when you just feel your life is wonderful?" "Surrrre" I replied (OK hesitantly) "Do you feel like that?" I asked. "Yep I do" she replied and my heart soared. So all the tears and meltdowns during the year have disappeared in the languid calm of the summer holidays. The joys of childhood. When … [Read more...]
Crumbling Strength
Condeming my children to a life of under-achievement
I may be holding my children back from achieving their true potential. I know it's hard to fathom given the amount of time, energy and money I've invested in them. This Christmas Hippie Child was given the autobiography of Jessica Watson, the teenager who in 2010, at just 16, became the youngest person to sail solo, unassisted and non-stop around … [Read more...]
Christmas Come and Gone
Well it's over for another year. Christmas come and gone in a mad whirl of shopping, cleaning, cooking, entertaining. It was hosted for the first time this year at Shambles Manor. We did successfully clear up enough room for people to be able to physically enter the house, OK it was never going to pass any sort of white glove test and the rumour … [Read more...]
Weekly Photo Challenge – Between
Weekly Photo Challenge – Self Portrait
Fair to say, I hated this week's photo challenge. Firstly, trying to find a decent photo of myself, VERY DIFFICULT. I was at one point tempted to revert back to my wedding shots, OK they may be 15 years old but with professional hair and make-up I didn't turn out half bad. I was going to take a current shot, but couldn't get in to the beauticians … [Read more...]
Christmas countdown on – are we ready? No we’re not.
Three days remaining until the Christmas festivities. Or 62 hours, 26 minutes and 9 seconds at the time of writing, if you count Christmas day as starting at 6.00am on the 25th. As the time ticks away the frenzy gets that little bit more intense because, as per usual, we are not ready. You would think with 364 days notice we could get our act … [Read more...]
Reading This Week – There Should Be More Dancing – Rosalie Ham
Margery Blandon, an uptight 79-year-old, is on the 43rd floor of the Tropic Hotel debating whether to jump over the edge. How she came to get there is the basis of There Should Be More Dancing by Rosalie Ham. Ham, the author of The Dressmaker, portrays a darkly humorous look at the process of aging, the mistakes of life and the vagaries of … [Read more...]
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