Moments from Suburbia

Last week I had a call from Tall Girls school to say that she had dislocated her knee cap. Poor thing, it was a very traumatic experience. S...

I have fallen in love, he is the perfect cat, apart from his thinness, which makes him a bit boney to cuddle. We have named him Pencil, be...

After writing the first part of this meme, I realised that actually these people which I am writing about have, perhaps, not really influen...

A long time ago, it seems like a lifetime, my solicitor told me I would be eligible for Legal Aid, she was in possession of all the financia...

Recently another blogger,  The Eternal Worrier , wrote a series of 7 posts about people who have influenced him. I am going to take up his c...

Visiting my mother in the summer holidays, without the children, was sublime. The sun shone, the flowers were bright and profuse in pots and...

The dog is getting old, we are all getting old. Walking The Dog is a very very slow business. But it is a beautiful sunny day and we are i...

Maggie May was right, I did know the answer to my dilemma. The reason I'd been so worried about ringing my prospective employer, was b...

As my much-looked-forward-to holiday period comes to an end, my sleep becomes disturbed once more and thoughts of work, childcare, finance a...

Over two weeks into the school holidays and I am childless once more. This time I nearly cried when they left, if Mum hadn't been there ...

'Mummy?' 'Yes' 'You'll never guess what's in my hand?' 'Ummmmmm' He is waving it about in a deme...

Tomorrow we are going on holiday, a week away from it all! I have been looking forward to it for such a long time. Schools out, the childr...

Over the last month or so I have been applying for jobs, around 16 in total. I have been called to interview twice, both were the 'bett...

Well not really, more like; I hung on the phone for half an hour, went to the council offices and eventually managed to get my completed for...

Life can be such a roller coaster at times. Today husband informed me he was cutting off all financial support to the children and myself fr...

From this ... To this (Small Sprogs biggest ever strawberry!) via this ... (Tall Girls sticky hands!) To this, 14 jars of it in fact! A part...

My Mum has always been a bit forgetful. It has nothing to do with age. When I was little she would take me shopping, and then, when we had b...

I was driving along in the car with Tall Girl last week, on the way to fetch Small Sprog, when she asked me what the date was. I thought for...

When I left the family home, over 4 months ago now, I took some of the pot plants with me. They were ones I had bought from my own garden wh...

Small Sprog has had trouble sleeping of late, light nights, hot room, over excitement, over tiredness, all the words for his school play goi...