Moments from Suburbia

It was Small Sprogs birthday last week. He is a not such a small sprog now; (according to his sister) he swears like a trouper on the school...

Friday night Me: Can you take up his hot chocolate...What are they doing up there? Tall Girl: Boy things Me: Oh Tall Girl: They are bei...

Yesterday I spent the day at mums. She likes to see her only child, too much sometimes. We mooch about for the day, doing nothing inparticu...

I'm not ever really sure that I like New Year, it's sometimes too much of a marker of time, more so than Christmas for me because th...

So how was your Christmas? Mine started early with a text from Tall Girl ( she was only in the next room) asking me to remove the cat from...

Well, it must be nearly time for the Big Day because Small Sprog is going off every few seconds! He is full of excitement and Christmas chee...

"We've had 2 pets called Archie now haven't we?" asks Small Sprog "Yes" I reply, only half concentrating. ...

Last week someone backed into my car when it was parked outside work. I walked back to my car at lunchtime and there was a big dent in the b...

I am excited, I don't see them so much now our children are all at senior school. I light candles the night before and set about writing...

We are driving along the road, nothing much is really going on, we are on the way home from school. Small Sprog has a noisy friend in the ba...

Meet Archibald. He is adorable, at last our family is complete. He is aproximatly 13 years old and was unwanted by his last family as they h...

Late Friday afternoon and I pull onto the familiar drive, the gravel crunching under the tyres. The place looks much the same as it always w...

Small Sprog brings his Girl Friend home. She is sweet and pretty and well mannered but goodness me is she full on?! By the time I had fed th...

Only 50 days to Christmas (yes really) and Tall Girl is fifteen next week (where did all those years go?) and Small Sprog has a Girl Friend ...

In the car Small Sprog taunts his sister "You've got no friends!" He says. She says something suitably scathing to him and he ...

I am being stalked. Really I am, or so it feels. I click onto my Gmail and there's a reply from Tall Girl about making Sheep Cupcakes....

Tall Girl and I plan a shopping trip. Her school has an In Service Day and Ex Husband has Small Sprog, who hates shopping. "Where sha...

"And they did something that's not normal" Tall Girl is telling me the latest gossip to hit Year 10. It is about a boy and a ...

"He's told me" Says Tall Girl, who is sitting on the kitchen worktop, feet stretched out on the draining board. "Is he i...