Dulwich Divorcee

Flashing blades ….

For all those mummies whose children have gone back today and who are finally putting their feet up and enjoying the peace missing their little dears terribly, here are some wonderful TV memories from the lovely C in California:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQHB1zd1f5M&feature=related
And:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5SxC1azbjY&feature=related
Or even:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Vh8JJR1OQ&feature=related
Ah, the bitter-sweet sting of nostalgia! Will anyone ever sigh over Numberjacks in the same way? [...]

Back to school

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We came back from our many staycations (of which more in future episodes) to a satisfyingly huge parcel. It turned out to be from those delightful people at Tesco!
As you see from the pictures, a frenzy then ensued as we ripped open the brown paper, revealing a lovely big sturdy black box, tied with [...]

Cats, dogs and pizza

Phew, we had a really busy weekend. No sooner had we washed the camping grass out of our hair, clothes, car, my handbag, and the cat (who didn’t even go camping) than we were off to make pizzas.
Now I don’t particularly like pizza, and I had assumed this outing would be one of many selfless [...]

Happy Campers

I can’t belive no one told me about camping before! Well, obviously that’s unfair. People kept on telling me, and I just put my hands over my ears and sang a merry tune. What I can’t believe is that I didn’t listen when people told me about camping before. Yes, it can be a tad [...]

OMG!

I never, ever thought this would happen. I’m in complete shock. I don’t know quite how it’s all come about. But I am doing something, tomorrow, that I always swore blind I would never do. Which I never thought I could ever be persuaded into. Which I’ve always thought should be made illegal anyway.

Yes, I’m [...]

Chocolate Weetabix

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When Weetabix asked me to try its new chocolate variety, I had a cunning plan. I’ve never been massively keen on Weetabix - the biscuits look too much like really harsh bathmats for my liking.  But I do know that they are very good for you, being only wheat, and wholewheat at that. So I decided [...]

JLXMAS

It was so lovely to be at the John Lewis Christmas do yesterday. It really made me feel I’d gone horribly wrong at the dingy careers office at my school 400 years ago. If anyone had told me it was possible to get a job decorating a beautiful listed building in shredded paper and covering [...]

Baking on the edge ….

So English Mum, that shining star of gorgeousness, has thrown down her oven glove gauntlet and challenged us all – yes, all of us, including you – to bake something fabulous.
The prize for our efforts - and I am typing this in hushed tones – is a Green & Black’s hamper.
Now I am completely abandoning [...]

The naughty step meme

So there we were, the Liz Jarvis of Living with Kids,Karen Pasquali from TheRealMammaDiaries and I, at the Christmas in July toy fair. There were enough gorgeous, must-have toys around us to keep even the most demanding little monster darling happy. A new Disney Princess oven, featuring rubber cupcakes which rise during ‘cooking’ and can then [...]

On their bikes

There’s uproar in Dulwich this morning after the Sunday Times report yesterday on the parents who allow their children, aged 8 and 5, to cycle to school unaccompanied every morning, on a mile-long route, crossing a main road with the help of a lollipop lady or other parents.
I’ve used the word ‘allow’ – but is that [...]