Sorry if I perplexed you all. Even Adam said to me, as he clandestinely read my blog for the day, “What the hell was that?”
First, I had no time to write anything.
Second, even if I had, I don’t think I could’ve been bothered.
Third, most importantly, I was also trying to be clever.
One of my favourite […]

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Keira is becoming increasingly interested in where things come from. Especially food. So, at tea, whatever I get served up is immediately traced back to its (usually!) organic beginnings.
But, then, the other night when we had chicken omelettes, I should’ve paused before thinking of making that combination:
Keira: What’s this?Me: Chicken.Keira: Where do chickens come from?Me: […]

Scribbit tagged me to do this meme last week, so I am going to be extra tricky and combine memes now, plus do a little extra at the bottom, and we’ll be all square.
7 Things About Me; the teenage years
1) England/CanadaWhen I was 15, I saved up all my pay from McDonalds to go overseas. […]

Keira has an unusual technique when it comes to singing nursery rhymes to Riley.
This involves getting right into his face, I mean centimetres away, and shouting at the top of her lungs: “Baa Baa Black Sheep….etc.etc”.
Depending on his mood, Riley will react in one of two ways:
1) If he’s feeling ‘punchy’, he’ll bat Keira away […]

Schmutzie makes me want to delete my post from a few days ago about periods, because now I feel just so bad.
Go read her account; and be moved by her eloquence, and her depth.
She doesn’t know me from a bar of soap, but I just want to hug her.

Okay, so, I read in the papers last week that private schooling is climbing up to be as much as $20,000 per child per year in this country. This particular article was about how this is increasingly putting pressure on families and is being linked to causes of depression and divorce rates amongst parents.
Yikes.
Now, I […]