Whoever “they” are. But they do, don’t they? Moving is the most stressful thing you can do according to league tables of such matters. Well they are wrong. Sort of. Those charts always suggest that moving house is the stressful thing. Well it isn’t. The house bit I mean. I tell you what is more stressful when it comes to moving. Blog host.
Welcome to MummyBarrow. I am a slightly bonkers mum of three, wife to one. Never really sitting still as there is always so much to do! This is my bit of the web to get things out of my head and where I hope to make you laugh or think. I don't really talk about my children too much as they can Google themselves but I do talk about family life. And juggling. Oh and food and drink. I talk about those a lot. So do pull up a chair, grab a biscuit and have a rummage.
Musings
Ranty Friday — OK magazine and Kate Middleton
Did you see this earlier on this week? I decided on Tuesday that it was this week’s Ranty Friday. In fact I nearly published this on Tuesday. As the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, was going into labour, OK magazine was beginning to circulate their first magazine celebrating the event. Oh isn’t that lovely? No. It was not. It was despicable. That is the front page, above. Focussing on how
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I’m on top of the world, mum
Seven little words: “I’m on top of the world, mum” was all it took to make me cry last night. Yesterday was a spectacularly rubbish day. Nothing in itself particularly disastrous but you know when you have one of those days where nothing goes right, everybody who phones you up is having a moan, you have a to do list that gets longer not shorter, and it is just a
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The Gallery — I Made This
What a great theme on The Gallery this week: I Made This. Generally speaking in our house I don’t make things. I do the clearing up after other people have made things, or buy the ingredients for other people to make things. I am the least crafty (and by that I don’t mean sneaky) person I know. So finding something I made that I could photograph was tricky. Unless it
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What’s the Story — July 22nd
I love a linky. I love the idea of joining blog posts together and really bringing the “community” into blogging. I was, therefore, quite excited when I heard last week that Charly from Podcast was starting a new linky this week because I knew it was one that I would like to join in with. Not sure I will be able to do it every week but certainly will as
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Hair chalking
What? No you shut up Hair chalking. Actual chalk in hair. Yes, it really is a thing. And how do I know this? Well because yesterday I got to try it out. No not on my hair you mad crazy fool. I am 43. And, well, I say I got to try it out…. What I actually did was order it on Amazon (other, possibly more tax compliant, websites are
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The Gallery — Archives
It seems kind of appropriate that I chose the picture above for this week’s the theme of “from the archives” for this week’s post on The Gallery. A photo I found recently whilst rummaging through a drawer. A picture of Jonnie taken when he was about 18 months old. It is poignant for a couple of reasons. One because this week he set off with a bunch of other teenagers
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When do we stop thinking of our children as our babies?
I have three teenagers and generally speaking I don’t worry about them. They are grown ups in my head. But today I have been pondering “When do we stop thinking of our children as our babies” C has just started her new job, one that is part of her long term career objective and one that will challenge her on a daily basis working in a busy A&E Department. Doesn’t
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Perfect — July
I am really sorry the book for Mummy Barrow’s Book Club is so late this month and didn’t happen at all last month. But it has been a bit crazy around here. I hope my choice of book will make up for it though. This book is, quite simply, Perfect. It comes from Rachel Joyce, author of quite possibly my most favourit-ist book of all times ever, The Unlikely Pilgrimage
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Ranty Friday — Labelling children in the press
I don’t mean putting name stickers on them, that is a good idea when you need to know a child’s name at a glance. What I am talking about is when journalists write stories about their children, I am assuming for cash, with headlines that scream “My demon daughter”. Labelling children with a tag, a name that is less than complimentary. Now that particular child is six. Is she really
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The Gallery — Sun
Sometimes the theme for the Gallery needs just photos and not many words. This week’s theme of sun is one such week. These are photos from our garden last night. The last glimpses of sunlight leaving for the evening. And of the sun as it comes up in our garden in the morning. It is one of my favourite views from anywhere in the world. We have lived in
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Ranty Friday — Katie Hopkins
You may wonder a) who Katie Hopkins is and why she is appearing on Ranty Friday; and b) why the picture of a lemon and not a picture of her. Well pull up a chair and let me tell you. Katie Hopkins first appeared on the Apprentice, in 2007. Nothing wrong with that. Except she seemed to have a bit of a bee in her bonnet from the off. She