Oh Christmas Eve!

So, Christmas Eve was surprisingly stress free and easy. It helped that The Man was home and all the chicklets excited into good moods.
We made cookies, actually Kev made them, insisted on making them himself, even read the instructions on the back of the cookie mix and forraged around for the cutters in the drawer [...]

Happy Holidays

So here we are, Day One of the winter hols 9.a.m. and I have only butted heads with Kev about 25 times so far. I have caused untold stress on the boy by not delivering his hot bagel at quite the speed he would have liked, for suggesting the TV goes down a decibel or [...]

Missed a Tag question.

OOPS,
I missed Favourite Christmas song and since
Flaming Nora bagged the greatest Christmas song since the dawn of time I am choosing two. The first is the fabulous Johnny Cash singing The Little Drummer Boy and I have no link, but
The Ox and lamb kept time
Parumpapumpum…
The second is Scarlett Ribbons, and both Roy Orbison [...]

What is Christmas?

and Yay! I have been tagged by the lovely Flaming Nora

when people say ‘Christmas’ you immediately think…
lashings of excess.
Favourite Christmas memory
When I was 11 years old I wanted a guitar. My Mum told me it was way beyond the budget. My brother and I found a guitar book and a plectrum in the flatley dryer. [...]

Oh Christmas Tree!!!

HOW VERY GREEN YOUR BRANCHES
I have had quite a dilemma all week, well 2 dilemmas really. One is my jealousy of people with fabulous real trees in their homes decorated to the hilt. The second is the terrible overgrowth of my border bushes that are now reaching across the road threatening to scratch passing cars. [...]

The Ghost of Lipsticks Past

I find myself thinking a lot these days about IRON LADY lipstick from Miss Selfridges. I think a law was passed in my small town in about 1980, requiring every single girl over the age of 9 to buy this lipstick and carry it with her at all times.
I wonder if they still sell it. [...]

The One About The Unicycle

A lot of the stuff my kids do I am impressed with but at the same time I kind of assume that they will be able to do it, like tie their shoelaces, grout the tiles in the bathroom, change the oil in the car, get a souffle to rise etc, , probably [...]

The One about The Parking Ticket.

I am really cold, though looking at photos of the weather on other people’s blogs makes me think there are colder places on Earth right now, and I am glad not to be in any of them.
The price of kerosene is through the roof, double what it was a few years back, I hate to [...]

The One About The Glue

Can you tell from the title I have been watching re-runs of Friends?
So the child, the teenager, the girl/woman one, has end of term exams.
Now these are gnarly enough anyway but getting into the High School of her choice really depends a lot on a positive outcome in these exams.
The results will go down on [...]