Moments from Suburbia

It's been a tricky month. It all started with a planned family photo... Last year, for Christmas, I bought Mum a family photo shoot as...

A belated Happy New Year! We're into the fourth day and 2013 feels just like 2012. Right now work is looming and I find myself countin...

An Xbox. He wanted and Xbox and that's what he got. Well we all have it really, it's not been off for more than a few hours overnigh...

Small Sprog is bouncing off the walls, as usual at this time of year, there's only 3 hours left until 'The Big Day' and if he ...

I picked the children up from the freezing bus stop at 3.30pm. Small Sprogs eyes had that look of mischief in them, the look that I recognis...

Small Sprog has completed his Christmas shopping; in like a ninja and out like a Bargain Hunter on the first day of The Sales. He loves it, ...

Lovely Man's brother arrives bearing gifts; a bag full of beer bottles and a box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts for the children - the doughn...

I am watching Telly with Tall Girl tonight, drinking in the last few days of the school holidays and the feeling of seemingly endless time w...

Tall Girl is excited. She has a party to go to. She lives a quiet life really -thankfully- and party's are not run of the mill, yet. S...

As the Jimmy Savile affair blunders on relentlessly gathering distress and revelations along the way I can't help but reflect back to th...

He sits in my kitchen (at times like these the 'my' is so important) and drinks tea while Tall Girl shows him her recent art coursew...

We are nearly at half term, it's been a very long term, and I have been working in my new job for nearly 2 months. I am enjoying the wor...

So we brought home a sixteen year old cat with issues.... Here he is stealing food from the pot during a TV dinner - it was risotto. His bac...

I was bringing the 'not so small' Small Sprog home tonight when we stopped at a junction to let some young women cross the road. His...

So Koko the new family cat is settling in, he has his own unique personality and considering he's around one hundred years old in cat ye...

Mum was here. It's always a bit of a lottery when she visits but this took the (dog) biscuit... We were having a conversation, all o...

"Oh Billy!" She always calls me that, and this intonation is an exasperated one, "Think of all the vets bills!" ...

You couldn't fail to want to feed him.

I love the style of William Morris so spending the day at Standen in Sussex meant I was in heaven again, feasting my eyes on many of his ori...

What can I say? I just fell in love with this beautiful garden designed by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in the 1930's. Hope y...