Moments from Suburbia

So after the reunion I have been thinking. The talk there was about illness, death and hip replacements! Well, not all the talk, but a fair ...

Sometimes I think that it's a blessing that we can't see into the future... A while back a work reunion was organised from the bui...

Early evening, Tall Girl and I share a bottle of cider and put the world to rights... She is lovely company and talks freely-perhaps we are ...

It's the school holidays and the kids are away for a week. The last week of term seemed endless, it must be a psychological thing - sort...

Well I missed it again, my bloggy birthday I mean. My first post was 3.3.2008; that makes Moments From Suburbia 6 years old this month, in c...

Since having children I have always had a job that means I get all the school holidays off so that we can all be together. It was a consciou...

Ah, bah humbug! I used to like Valentines Day, or at least tolerate it. I can remember when I was first married I would get quite excited ...

Ahhhh, the massive birthday/Christmas/partying season is now officially over, with Small Sprogs Event being the closing feature! Now it'...

I know it's a bit late but Happy New Year! It's been a good start for me. Having spent two terms at work feeling extremely stresse...

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...