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I’ve Never Been Very Good At The Whole Friendship Thing.
Far too long ago, my virtual friend and blogger, Michelle Weaver from Pinky Poinker nominated me for a blogging award. To fulfil the award I needed to tell my readers several things about myself that they might not know already. I’m pretty candid on this blog so most of you know most of my sordid…
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9/11 Was Not An Evolution Of Terrorism, But It Was The Evolution Of A Greater Awareness Of Terrorism
The mind plays peculiar tricks as you get older. These days, I can’t remember where I put my car keys from one minute to the next, or where I’ve parked my car in the mall, but I can still remember exactly what I was doing on 9/11, 2001. ‘Peace’ by Bart at http://www.flickr.com When I…
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Confessions Of The Worst Housewife
It’s been a hellish week at work so I’ve tried that strategy I used to use on the kids when they were toddlers, of ‘ignore them and they might just go away’, but the overflowing laundry basket is particularly persistent at drawing attention to itself and refuses to play ball – which makes me THE…
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Teenagers And That Moment When They Suddenly Grow Up
NC has picked up this new job working as a medical secretary in between her uni studies. It gives her the extra cash to get riotously drunk at the weekends on the sort of expensive wine that I couldn’t afford until I was forty and an alcoholic, as well as an outlet to vent her…
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Joan Rivers Proved That Women Can ‘Have It All’
“When I die, I want my funeral to be a huge showbiz affair with lights, cameras, action…I want Craft services, I want paparazzi and I want publicists making a scene! I want it to be Hollywood all the way. I don’t want some rabbi rambling on; I want Meryl Streep crying, in five different accents.…
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KPIs For Father’s Day
Father’s Day is only days away and this year the kids have decided to do something a little different. The old man has everything he needs and so this year they have come up with the novel idea that his special day is focused on self-improvement. They have identified several ways in which they believe he could improve…
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Salad Sexiness To Turn You On In Middle Age
What are you trying to say, sis? It’s a sad fact that as we women enter middle age, we are forced to get excited about salad. That odd packet of chocolate cookies or bottle of wine that never hurt our love handles in the past, now position themselves defensively around our brittle bones to protect…
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5 Practical Tips To Get Your ADHD Child Through Exams
So, exams and children with ADHD don’t mix. If exams are stressful for the ‘normal’ child, imagine how appealing they are to the child with poor memory skills, low self-esteem and poor organisation skills; or the kid who can’t sit still for longer than fifteen minutes without fidgeting. Found on littlejuggie.tumblr.com at http://www.pinterest.com ADHD is…
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Those ‘What’s It All About?’ Moments
I had a completely self-absorbed and quite exhausting ‘what’s it all about?’ moment in the car on the way to work this morning. I am prone to over-thinking about absolutely nothing, as I’ve mentioned a few gazillion times before in my blog. In my defence, it WAS Monday morning, I hadn’t had my coffee and…
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Overworked And Underpaid: Ever Feel Like Your Family’s Personal Assistant?
I work hard, and sometimes I feel overworked, underpaid and under-valued at home. Chris Overworked by Ferrell McCollough at http://www.flickr.com I spend three days of my week doing paid work – I work from home (and as such my job is not truly considered a ‘proper’ job by my family, even though my salary is…
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What Being A Middle-Aged Woman Really Means
Andi Schreiber bravely went where no middle-aged woman has gone before, recently. She photographed what being middle-aged really means to her in a series of her own personalised photos: Ten Stunning Photos That Prove Women At Middle Age Are Anything But Invisible This is my visual interpretation of what being a middle-aged woman means to…
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