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Summer Holidays Finley’s school holidays started last Friday and to both my joy and horror, this year he has two whole months at home to enjoy the Summer. Two months!! I am going to be around the bend come September the ninth, so don’t say I didn’t warn you… In our house, the pace of…
In my mind I look like the housewife in these darling images, but in reality I am dressed for comfort and usually lounge about in the kind of black uniform, kind enough not to show the dirt I seem to acquire as if by osmosis… The rather wonderful thing about my black housekeepers uniform is that…
It is raining here today. The tapestry of leaves on the ground sodden and untidy. There were no teabags left in the copper pot on the counter. Only a trickle of the skimmed milk I favor lingering in the fridge. My feet have turned an unusual shade of purpley-blue because I have not yet…
Presents. Lovely to receive, lovely to wrap, and a nightmare to buy. Especially for your sister who has everything and your Dad who doesn’t want anything. Or your Mum who would faint if you gave her a scrumptiously vintage anything… So what to do? Short of offering gift vouchers to everyone you know or popping…
In the deep dark night I wake myself up by bashing myself full in the face and stare at the angry red letters of the alarm clock startled to see that it is apparently £2.99 in the morning. The world has gone mad again. Too many blankets tangled around my legs and the sighs of…
Is it wrong to mourn the baby my little boy was yesterday? Although I can hardly bear it, Finley will be two tomorrow, and while I had long suspected that Motherhood was destined to be punctuated by intense moments of grief, I never imagined that the longing for my seven pound little babe in arms…
I love this lol
I think we all have days like this don’t we Lyn??X