Monthly Archives: January, 2012

Where does he learn such things?

Was sitting on the toilet this morning, chatting away to Sam. (Question for parents: when will I regain privacy in the bathroom?) ‘We need to do a bit of hoovering this morning Sam, but after that we’re going to…’ Sam cuts in: ‘Squeeze it out Mummy.’ ‘go into town and meet…………Hang on…did you just say …

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The Food Lottery

Today was a truly fabulous day. I am absolutely thrilled to announce…I won the Food Lottery! In some ways (I think, anyway) winning the Food Lottery is just as good as winning the National Lottery or Euromillions. Admittedly the prize is not as valuable, but the initial excitement of discovering you have won is surely …

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Innocent mistakes

I am willing to place a sizable bet on the fact that I will somehow make a fool of myself every single day of 2012. I always wonder whether I am just a poor unfortunate soul who is fated to do a disproportionate number of silly things; or whether in fact everyone else is the …

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Embarking on a food resolution

<a href=”http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/3199639/mummy-big-bum?claim=hqek35r9anj”>Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> It is the 7th of January and I’ve decided that my New Year’s Resolutions should finally kick in; so there’ll be no long post from me tonight. I need to get my big bum in gear and do all the boring stuff that has been building up for the …

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The aftermath

Thank you so much to everyone who has offered support following my last post. It was a horrible, horrible discovery to have made but I am so glad that I did: the image will stick in my head and haunt me forever…but in my view that is far better than continuing to post photos of …

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Unforeseen horrors

Just when I’d got back on the writing wagon; feeling excited about my New Year’s Resolution to post more frequently… I hit upon a stumbling block that may well be impossible to recover from. All of a sudden my passion for writing has been swallowed up by something far, far, more serious, and I am …

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