The innocuous source of pure mayhem
I have two boys, now 2-and-a-half and 14 months, commonly known as Bang and Crash. By all accounts things are getting a little easier as...
Monday, 14 November 2011
Friday, 11 November 2011
MUMMY'S FUNKY FRIDAY: Street Art
Give me Streets around the world over a stuffy gallery any day!
Welcome to the second week of Mummy's Funky Friday, your weekly dose of my new favourite word, alt-worthy stuff...
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
OUR FIRST KISS
Rodin's "The Eternal Idol" Sketched by love-obsessed 25 year old me.
I sketched this in Vienna when I was 25. I was sitting on the floor of a Museum, as you do when you're...
Friday, 4 November 2011
MUMMY'S FUNKY FRIDAY : Pumped Up Kicks
My recent Friday Night Lights stories got me thinking about how life as a parent can be so boring that a loud street party you're not at and a bit of car bashing...
Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Friday Night Lights - Part 2: Flashing
I'm sure my single, not-so-sober self of 2004 would have nothing to learn from this situation
The teenagers were gone and the only hum I could hear was the soft yet...
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Friday Night Lights - Part 1: Lasers
Friday night 2004-style: Notice amazing dance moves and alcohol in background, of course they are not related!
When I was single I looked forward to Friday night the way a...
Friday, 28 October 2011
Motherhood Unearthed
As I write nearly three billion Google searches have happened, 98 million tweets posted and 210 billion emails sent and that’s just today. We are living in an age of information,...
Monday, 24 October 2011
Problogger Training Day: Rangars, red wine & blogging from the heart
After 9 days enduring, I mean enjoying travel with two unruly toddlers and a very stretched hubby I fumbled to a seat at the Problogger training day 15 minutes late, sweaty...
Saturday, 15 October 2011
Toddlers at 30,000ft: just flying "high"
Flying with children, especially very young children, is always a source of some anxiety for parents. Such was the case on Thursday when we woke at 5.30am to ensure we were...
Saturday, 8 October 2011
Holding on
I was about 30m away, my joyous 2 year old son, Bang, was running across a field, one he always heads for after we’ve been to the playground adjacent. He was not alone, he...
Thursday, 6 October 2011
"The architect of our lives" RIP Steve Jobs
RIP Steve Jobs
1955 - 2011
“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because...
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Blogging and the bright side
There are two groups of people who have an unlikely but uncanny resemblance to each other they are: Eternal optimists you know the glass-half-full types that can turn being...
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Is Facebook going bad or moving forward?
As you can probably tell from my smattering of posts about Facebook on every social media network I’m a bit taken with the new Timeline feature. It is so fun and you can read...
Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Crashed and burned: what is it with firemen?
Remember when you used to get really excited when the fire brigade showed up just because you got to perve at all the firemen? It was especially fun at work so you could giggle...
Monday, 19 September 2011
Make it go away Mummy
This past week has been surreal, in fact if I think about it this past year has. Something changed though last Wednesday when my son was diagnosed with pneumonia. I can’t yet...
