Breakfast. What is breakfast in this house? If it is Saturday it is missed out all together by the kids as they don’t get up until lunchtime. Sunday and Mr B and I often go to BlackBushe market for a wander round. If we are feeling particularly generous we will return with “dirty burgers” for brunch. Monday and this is breakfast for J: Other days of the week and
Musings
Dear Eva Longoria
Are we really supposed to believe you spend your evenings dancing for your cat and drinking milk out of a bottle? Stop it. No we do not believe this. This is supposed to be advertising cat food. It doesn’t it advertises your amazing legs and makes me envious for those, not suggest I am under selling my cats by giving them all Go Cat. Desperate Housewife indeed.
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A big thank you on behalf of Headway
A few weeks ago I sent a Tweet asking if people might donate an item to a charity fundraising project my dad was involved in. A raffle as part of their Cotwolds village fete to raise money for the local Headway support group. To say my dad was overwhelmed with the box of stuff I finally handed over was an understatement. We got everything from a £100 voucher for
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Musings
Kate Middleton’s boobs
We woke up yesterday to the news that a paparazzi had trespassed near the estate in France where Kate and William had been on holiday last week and had taken photos of her sunbathing topless. Those photos had then been sold to the French Closer Magazine. A magazine that claims: The photos we selected are by no means degrading. They show a young couple on vacation, beautiful, love, modern in their
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On the twelfth day of September
…… my family gave to me One overflowing bin Two empty loo rolls Three dead animals Four rooms to Hoover Five “Mum have you seen?” Six towels a dumped Seven “what can I eat?’s” Eight piles needing washin’ Nine shops traipsed through Ten minutes peace Eleven socks needing pairing Twelve “I really love yous” How has your September been so far?!
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The Gallery — Beauty
Beauty: the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as in shape, colour, sound etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). Beauty for me is generally to be found in the natural world. Long stretches of sandy beach, sunlight and shadows on the garden, or spectacular views. This picture, for this week’s Gallery, was taken in 2007 during a family holiday with another family in Wales, near Llanberis and Snowdon. We had gone “on to the top road” and
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Something is not right here
So TGI Friday’s have this as their tagline: Quite like that idea. So how does this work: Always Friday. Except on Monday to Thursday.
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How do you find MummyBarrow
Around 1000 people visit my blog every day (I know, I find that hard to believe too). With page views approaching twice that figure. And it always puzzles me as to just how people have found mummybarrow. Some of those people are subscribers, and I love these people alot. Are you one of them? You aren’t? <stares> You can remedy that by clicking that little button over there
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The Gallery — Back to School
Back to school is a staggered affair in this house as for the past two years I have had three children in three different schools or college. And this is now the first term that only involves E and J. C is now working full time whilst she makes her uni choices. So J went back to weekly boarding on Monday night and E went back today. Though we still
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When it happens to you — September 2012
This is the debut novel from Molly Ringwald. Name sound familiar? Remember Pretty in Pink? Breakfast Club? Yep THAT Molly Ringwald. Simon and Schuster (the publishers) say this: Tales of love, loss, and betrayal are at the heart of When It Happens to You, the debut novel in stories from actress and author Molly Ringwald. A Hollywood icon, Ringwald defined the teenage experience in the eighties in such
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Musings
Over Priced Build Project Magazines
I have a “thing” about small print. You know that bit that tells you all the terms and conditions that you don’t really need to pay attention to at the bottom of the advert. Quite often Mr B and will see an ad on TV and say “What? Their group was only of 100 women and 79% liked it. Is that all?” Don’t get me started on so
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Cycling — it’s a learning curve alright
I was thrilled to finally get a bike last weekend. I thought a bike was a bike, right? Wrong. First of all they are either road / off road or hybrids apparently. Mine being a hybrid which I am told is a good thing. Because it gives me flexibility. Flexibility? Did you see me trying to walk after I did a mile on it on Sunday? With 21