Do not get up!

You know something great about parenting twin teens? They sleep in! How crazy is that, the very thing I also moan about is actually fantastic. It’s how you get the parenting respite isn’t it? When they were little they went to bed early and then we had an evening; time to chillax and hang loose. Then came the in-between years when that evening time got squished and squashed they stayed up later and so did I. I remember a...

Blinking Blog

Blinking heck, how do you do this blogging thing? I feel mine is turning into a hotchpotch, no, a mess of stuff, so much for simple hu? I write whatever is in or on my mind and then have to decide what “category” to put it in, is there any point I wonder, trying to make this  FIT into anything remotely useful or sensible. I’m not sure I’m the sort of person who fits-in anyway, fits in a box, and I don’t...

Simple Pleasures

Etna, Sicily.                                 Linking up with: Wordless Wednesday and My Little Drummer...

Beam Me Up Button

“I didn’t sign up for this, no-one told me it would be like this.” I threw myself on my bunk crying “I don’t want to be a mother any more, I can’t do this, why on earth did I have children” I think we should all be issued with a beam-me-up button which painlessly transports us off for parenting respite. I’d like to go somewhere where I’m bathed in healing light, given a nice hot drink and a biscuit, my shoulders are...