Well clearly not birth itself. Obviously. But this week on Ranty Friday something has got right on my wick. We heard that Nick Knowles and his lovely wife were expecting their first child together in August. Excellent news you might think. But not if you have read about in the press or seen “debates” on Twitter. Mrs Knowles has decided that she does not want her husband in the delivery
Random, as it suggests!
Musings
Scrimping
Scrimping used to have such negative connotations didn’t it? Almost penny pinching. Miserly maybe. Not these day now. Savvy shoppers and living frugally mean that we are all scrimping. I know I am. Life for us is expensive at the moment. I am not particularly sure why. There just seems to be one thing after another that leaves me staring at my bank account thinking “but there is still so
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The Gallery — Food
Oh my word. Well if every a category had my name stamped all over it, it was this one. I cannot tell you how many photos there are on my phone of food. I photograph every meal when we go out. I Instagram a lot of them, and I just keep the others. I don’t even know why. It certainly isn’t to try and recreate them. Well that would just
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Musings
Ranty Friday — Boasts
Not people boasting about stuff, that one-up-manship that men do in the pub but on Ranty Friday this week I am talking about something I read a lot: Estate Agents’ details. You know the ones I am talking about, don’t you? You don’t? Let me give you some examples: “This property is in a residential location” — well no shit Sherlock. Where would it be? In the middle of an
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Musings
Rewinding the clock
Rewinding the clock Wouldn’t you like to rewind sometimes? To push the pause button and rewind a bit? To get to a point where you think “I could do with rewinding the clock, just a little bit” and being able to do it a bit. Or a lot? When I think about finding a photo for this week’s theme on The Gallery the first thing that springs to mind
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Musings
The Little Book of Big Wisdom
They say that the best things come in small packages. Well I do when people take the mickey out of me only being 5’4 and now shorter than two of the teens. Three if youngest is wearing her spiky shoes. So when a little book landed on my doorstep called The Little Book of Big Wisdom I was intrigued.
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Ranty Friday — Lord Rennard
Right before we go any further this rant is not about him, nor am I making any comment about him. So if you are thinking of suing me for libel you can forget it. What am I talking about is my understanding of events this week. A case of sexual harrassment against him is dismissed due to lack of evidence. Now. Another thing to get straight here. This does not
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Musings
Sport Relief Launch Day
is today!! Today is the day that all their plans for 2014 are revealed. And I just wanted to give you, my lovely readers, a heads up on some of things on their website: Sport Relief There is much excitement and chatter about an episode of Only Fools and Horses being shown soon as it features DAVID BECKHAM *runs round with pants on head*. The “Lovely David” as the gorgeous
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Musings
FA Cup Dreams
Everyone knows about the FA Cup. Don’t they? It’s one of those iconic things that you recognise whenever you see it. Children dream of their team winning it. Players dream of lifting it. And whilst they all dream about it and think about it, it is always just out of reach.
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Ranty Friday — B&Q Again
To date I have not had to blog about the same rant twice on Ranty Friday. I blog, I get it out of my system and I calm down again. Or whatever it was I was ranting about get resolved and that is the end of that. Not this week though The reason I spotted the gift cards in B&Q that made me rant last week was because we
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Musings
The Gallery — New
I look out of the living room window at this time of year and vow that we will get our garden sorted this year. There is nothing really wrong with it, it just needs a bit of tlc. And at this time of year it looks even more neglected than usual. The grass is too long, there are leaves from the trees on the grass, there are weeds, it just