I spend all my time at the moment it feels, thinking about money. Saving it, raising it, earning it, spending it. It’s partly because of this challenge, and partly just because money is tight, and we’ve got four children. I don’t have a pension, or college funds for the children, and if we have a [...]
Saturday snippets 19 January 2013
{Watching} nothing. The media centre has expired. No family film night, we could have hooked up a laptop but with several sick children we decided a quiet early night was a better idea. {Reading} life after life from Kate Atkinson. Not very far in yet but it’s promising so far. {Eating} spaghetti bolognese. Quick, cheap, [...]
Read 52 Pure and an apology.
The holiday bug.
The more children you have, the more chance that you’ll spend part of your holiday holed up in your accommodation, nursing one who has succumbed to a holiday bug. A visiting virus, imported by another holiday maker, shared in the pool, or just in passing. And so it has been today, with Tigerboy having a [...]
Dear Alice
A movie, a book, some time in the pool.
The movie: Hop. Better than you’d expect, not actually good enough to watch three times back to back unless you’re a three year old with screen withdrawal. The book: finally finished How To Be a Woman, Completely failing to identify with the experiences described, though some conclusions on abortion chime with my gut feeling. The [...]




