Moments from Suburbia

Its been 2 years exactly since we all moved into this house and into a new adventure. I thought I knew how it would pan out, I thought it wo...

Thursday night I'm woken by the sound of banging and crashing downstairs in the hall. I listen intently, wondering whether to get up and...

I turn up with a bunch of Sweet Williams which we both sniff as I walk in and make the same disappointed face to. "Maybe they'll st...

How do you count the passing of time? For me it has always been through the growing up of children. Not always my own. Years ago my very goo...

We turn up at Mums at about 11am. I ring the bell. She's in instant panic mode even though she knows we're coming. "I've lo...

Wow! That was a big year, wedding, house moves, new schools and colleges. All such a new life. Wishing you all a great 2017 Tall Girl an...

I plump myself down on Small Sprogs bed. He looks at me with a withering look. I smile! "Whats up dude?" he says. I giggle ...

It's 4ish months since we all moved in here. At first it felt like a holiday home as all the teens had finished GCSEs and we all hung ab...

It's nearly the weekend and Tall Girl has 'volunteered', or perhaps been press-ganged, into making chocolate and ginger mouse fo...

This should be a post about moving house, which was crazy (and sorted) or the holidays since but I need to write the following as a memory f...

An era is drawing to an end and there are new beginnings on the horizon for all of us here. Small Sprog had his last day of school today (ap...

Tall Girl arrives downstairs looking dazed and confused. She is impatient to move and isn't liking the boredom of her current job which ...

We're all hopping up and down with anticipation here. Well, when I say 'all' I really mean Tall Girl and I as Small Sprog can on...

Small sprog is overly excited about the potential of spending 24 hours on the ferry, he's full of noise and can't keep still in the ...

 Yep, 2 weeks ago we had an amazing valentines weekend, everything went to plan, it was very special and packed with memories. And yet, I ca...

I am sitting at the kitchen table the night after the party. Small Sprog was 16 yesterday - yep, you read it right, 16! Out of both the ch...

Its nearly Christmas and it doesn't seem that many years since Small Sprog was buzzing about with excitement singing wall to wall Christ...

I've had a lot of time at home recently and I've been so lucky that, until this week, the weather's been beautiful. And then tod...

'Jonathan has a new girlfriend' Says Tall Girl to Mum, making conversation 'she comes from Catalonia' she continues 'Oh...

Small Sprog has been off school - he does a good 'dying duck' act and I'm never sure how ill he really is! Anyway, after 4 days ...