Awful, isn’t it? In fact, words can barely describe the hideousness. Look at the chewed off edge; except it wasn’t chewed, it came out of the packet like that (so Keira says). Then there’s the chocolate thats bleeding through the rice paper like the blackheads I used to sport when I was working at Macdonalds. […]

For the past eleven or so months you’ve been telling people, “I’m almost four!” and I suppose I have been the spoil-sport when I pipe up, “Not for a while yet, you’re not.”
Then, since Christmas, I’ve had to start admitting that, yes, it’s not far off now, is it? What would you like?
A Winnie the […]

Karen happens upon suspicious little brown substances on the floor. She gently picks one up and smells it.
“Ah, good!” she says to herself, before going over to the bin.
Her husband overhears, and looks over.
“That should be chocolate.”
“Well, I know it is now.”
“What disturbs me is that you smelled it when it could’ve been the other…”
“They’re the extremes I […]

Both kids are fighting over me. Because they are sick, their desperation is of a particularly sweaty and snotty kind. Both tug, grab and yank at my bathrobe as they fight to see who will be granted my attention, and therefore my love, first.
“You now know what it feels to be rock star,” says my husband.
“Or […]