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Home Is Where The Heart Is…
Cup of Coffee with Spices (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It was a good holiday… if you discount the cabin fever, the ludicrous amount of snow that made snowploughing quite awkward at times and the combination of early mornings and alcohol. Note to self for the umpteenth time: Baileys and wine DO NOT MIX. But it was…
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The Holiday Period
Dear Period, Forgive me for abandoning all hope of ever being able to decipher how your special powers of diarising work exactly, when no matter how meticulously I plan ahead you always seem to appear slap bang in the middle of my hard-earned two weeks of holiday. Courtesy of Libra I begrudgingly give you ten…
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Holiday Eating And Survival Of The Fittest
What is it about holidays that your body decides that it can suddenly eat whatever the fuck it likes without gaining any weight? That it can devour the kind of fast food (and in massive quantities) that you haven’t dared even sniff since your twenties, without any detrimental effect to your muffin top? This week,…
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Sucker For Punishment Or Martyr To Marriage
Image58.jpg (Photo credit: jhull) So it wasn’t enough for this crazy bitch to move house and work like a dog over the past two weeks; she now has to prove her absolute stupidity by heading off to the slopes for a skiing holiday. Thredbo is no Hayman Island. I could lie and pretend that I…
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The Birth Of Besta: Because NOTHING brings a family closer together than Ikea
Nothing brings a family closer together than Ikea. English: Logo of Ikea. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’ve written about the influence of the Ikea family culture and their methodology on our dysfunctional family before. And in the grand scheme of life and other shit, I DO REALISE that a small cupboard with doors that don’t close…
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14 Of The Best Moving House Tips
Although an oven may state that it is ‘self-cleaning’, that’s a lie! It does not self-clean as you use it, so allow three days for cleaning deeply engrained brown shit. Do not assume that removalists possess any spatial awareness or can see even those walls directly in front of them. Be careful not to pack…
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Sometimes It’s Just Too Hard To Get Off The Sofa
One of the great things about moving house and the whole tedious packing process is that as the food stores dwindle there’s a justifiable excuse to order take out. The Princess has already packed her case! We reached the ‘what’s left in the freezer’ stage last Friday. Fine if you like frozen fruit, party pies,…
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One Small Step For Kurt: Managing Your ADHD Rather Than Letting It Manage You
melting of age (Photo credit: girl/afraid) Kurt and I reached our seventeenth anniversary together yesterday. We’ve both changed a lot since that day seventeen years ago when he propelled his way out of my body and into his life, with little warning, no pain relief and lucky to make it out of the hospital lift.…
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The Middle-Aged Nesting Instinct
I AM DEFINITELY NESTING. What I should be doing is organising the insidiously boring stuff involved with a house-move, like the utility connections (yawn!), but all I can think about is how I am going to furnish my new little apartment. I should be working too, but I keep getting distracted by Ikea and Freedom…
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Proud To Be A Parent of Generation Y
Generation Y (Photo credit: dalechumbley) I have been guilty of slamming Generation Y on many occasions. It’s not only me; the millennials are continually castigated in the press and accused of being lazy with an insane sense of entitlement. And from reading my blog you might accurately assume that I believe this to be true.…
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