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dilemma #275
I am struggling with something that I am not sure I should be struggling about. It seems a bit pedantic and petty and a bit nerdy, but every time I am at Barnaby’s school, and I see that nice, home … Continue reading
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photo essay like the satorialist (except not about clothes)
It has been a week! A whole week and I have not written anything and I feel removed and lost and neglectful and deep, deep shame. But I am also tired from my new life. My new life of 6:30 … Continue reading
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School
Tomorrow I get up and do not mooch around the kitchen with coffee playing online scrabble with my mother. I will not be slowly slowly getting things moving so that at 10ish we are finally ready to face the World … Continue reading
Leaving Party
Today was Barnaby’s Leaving Party from nursery. A highly anticipated event among all those under 5 years old (at my place, at least), because of the Leaving Party Cake. The Leaving Party Cake was not made by me, because I … Continue reading
Bank Holiday Weekend
In the spirit of spousely togetherness, and in an effort to avoid watching my husband watch bad sci fi, we have become box set viewers. We started with The Wire. This first foray frankly set the bar too high, and … Continue reading
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Not Greece, alas
Sometimes, something your mother said to you suddenly becomes glaringly, sharply, obviously true, and it makes you think your mother knows quite a bit more than you ever thought. One day, my mother said that if you want something from … Continue reading
Things of note
This week, I have been hot, drunk cocktails at Sketch, was nearly run over by a rubbish truck and been thwarted by the tricksy hiding post office but all this is meaningless because TODAY I SAW THE KING! Of Tonga. … Continue reading
A moment of quiet
The children are playing happily in my room. What madness is this??? Admittedly, they have upended all of their toy boxes and have scattered small, pointy, sharp things everywhere, into crevices I did not know our room had, and they … Continue reading
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Rant Disclaimer
Ok, ok, the Beautiful Brazilian has got to GO! It is not just the fact that I am jealous of her youth and pertness and bitter that my own “I-feel-18-and-so-can-still-wear-hair-in-messy-art-studenty-way” schtick has become WRONG, but she really is a bit … Continue reading
Fake Rain
It is raining, in a monsoon-like fashion, and the light has gone – a peek out the window into the murky darkness reveals oily dampness and – bugger! The pushchair. Which will still have bits of food stuck in various … Continue reading
The Harridan 