Mum and Dad were watching TV when Mum said, ‘I’m tired,and it’s getting late, I think I’ll go to bed’She… Read More »
Ellie: Make you feel any closer to all the other mums out there?
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Grace: where are all the pricks?
While bemusedly watching my neighbour erecting various Colditz-style barbed wire fences on the boundaries of some fields he has just… Read More »
Ellie: HELP, I'm being a crap Mum….
This week I feel like a crap MUM! My children seem to be allergic to visiting any cultural place of… Read More »
Annabel: My dear I wanted to tell you…
Friends, as Ellie mentioned, and Film, as Grace mentioned and if I can add to that Books and Food then… Read More »
Grace: Why I love the cinema…
Just seen the most wonderful film. No gore, chainsaws or car chases. No idiotic rom-com storylines, swearing or gritty realism…. Read More »
Ellie: I just can't stop nattering…….
I have had one of those weeks when I seem to have got shamefully little done considering that I only… Read More »
Grace: just a thought
Was musing about the fact that it only takes one person to ruin an otherwise quite pleasant day. Once a… Read More »
Annabel can't quite understand the new feminist voice…….
Husband returns home bearing copy of day’s Evening Standard. I have definitely been living in the country for too long… Read More »
Grace gets a bit traveloggy (hope you don't mind)
Looking over frozen river towards Kremlin Eat your heart out Harrods Food Hall! It was so cold that I could… Read More »
Ellie: Blum, Blum, Blum Bli, Blo, Blo (latin verb endings)!
I came across an interesting fashion designer recently,Gudrun Sjödén. Gudrun’s aim in the 70′s was to create a word with… Read More »
Annabel on the Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs of Life
Do you get days where you wake up feeling that life seems to deal you out far too many trials… Read More »
Ellie: Cough, splutter, cough, splutter, cough, cough…..
Cor, I feel as if I’ve been run over by the No. 22! Like most mum’s with kids of school… Read More »
Annabel tries to live with no regrets…
According to an article I read yesterday in The Lady magazine I understand that one of people’s biggest deathbed regrets… Read More »
Grace gets up and goes
I’m not complaining, because I have a comfortable life, but it can get a little repetitive sometimes. Put the washing… Read More »
Ellie: I'm too sexy for your Lab!
VALENTINE’S DID YOU SAY? Oh Lord, I’m trying to forget the whole event!! Let’s be fair, I’ve been married14 years… Read More »
Annabel lets her hair down which helps suppress her current murderous inclinations…
I have bitten my tongue, smiled sweetly and kept my temper but in two hours this house will be an… Read More »
Grace – gourmet or gorger?
Does anyone else go completely bonkers as soon as it’s the weekend? For us, it begins on Friday evening as… Read More »
Annabel dines with dating websites users….
It’s my day to blog and I have absolutely nothing exciting to say. I still have my mother staying and… Read More »
Grace: what you can do with a hoghair brush
Just been to the preview of the Lucian Freud exhibition at National Portrait Gallery- two hours flew by as we… Read More »
Grace clicks, splurges and returns
I have been good lately. Oh so good. Practically angelic. Have avoided the temptations of the high street and stuck… Read More »
Annabel and her small dog roll their eyes…
As I walked the dogs this morning, in the slushy, snowy, ice and fog I pondered on my weekend and… Read More »
Annabel takes kindly to her Kindle…
Firstly big congratulations to Grace and her Husband of many years, I hope that there was much celebration as their… Read More »
Grace – still in love after all these years
It is our 21st wedding anniversary today. Hard to believe I once thought I would never get married, let alone… Read More »