Moments from Suburbia

So, it's September, no October already and as usual everyone starts to look towards December and Christmas. Mum is usually the first per...

My life, since 2008, is mostly documented here. I have met a lot of beautiful people along the way both here and in the 'real world'...

"Come on  Small Sprog!" Tall GIrl and I chorus as we wait to use the bathroom in the holiday cottage. As cottages go, it's qui...

It's dinner time and we all sit around the table and eat at the usual pace - Small Sprog eats as fast as possible in order to get back o...

It's been a whirlwind few months, a busy 2014 - I'll not forget my 50th year - and so much is going on that I can't write here y...

Ahhhh... it's the holidays again, no alarm clocks for a week and kids lying about in bed all day! Bliss, as long as I can go out a do my...

For the first time ever I am leaving the kids to their own devices for the evening, shocking isn't it?! Not that I'm leaving them bu...

Sometimes things happen and you have no control. Life is good right now- I have a full life, love all the people in it, every single one, lo...

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...