Moments from Suburbia

Only a week of anticipation left! It's the best bit really, as long as you can get festive and still work in a senior school that is, bo...

School uniform on the bedroom floor. Scattered. It's only 4pm. Perhaps Small Sprog has been abducted by aliens? Perhaps he has not drunk...

I always thought I had brought my children up to be liberal, free thinking and tolerant human beings, but no, yesterday I was travelling alo...

OK, so how much puke should one woman clear up in a week?! It all started on the night of Tall Girl's birthday - OMG she was 17 last S...

 If men fancy a night in the pub or just want to get out of the house, they don't need to find friends to go with. They can just up stic...

What a beautiful day it's been today? Like summer has returned. How many more of these days will we get before winter sets in? It was a ...

'He's carrying a gun around' Tall Girl observes 'I know, he's been doing it all weekend.' I say, sighing. 'I w...

Small Sprogs feet have grown! It's a miracle! Small Sprog has had the same size feet for near on 2  years. His sisters feet have grown a...

Hello world! Yes, I am still here and so are Small Sprog - now not quite so small as he was - and Tall Girl - who is taller than me but I...

Today I am alone, self imposed loneliness. I thought I'd try it. I have work to do but am distracted by remnants of a past life, sever...

Mum came to visit this weekend, we had our mothers day in March in the UK but it just happens that this weekend was the one she chose to com...

Small Sprog is doing his homework, sort of. He has a YouTube vid playing on the ipad blasting into his ears through his headphones, he has a...

I am writing this in stolen time. I should be at work but poor Small Sprog is home again after vomiting up his meal last night. He didn'...

Of late I have felt the hamster wheel of life catching up with me. Perhaps, now that I work 4 days a week, instead of half that, I am finall...

Poor Small Sprog has been traumatised by his cookery teacher (I know it's called Food Technology these days but hey, it's still cook...

I was out with a few people from work the other night and the subject of Valentines Day arose. No one was positive about it, everyone bemoan...

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 ...