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TCM
TCM means "traditional chinese medicine". If you have had any kind of interaction with any TCM doctor (or elderly asian parent), you would know that there can only one problem with your health -'Heatiness'.
Heatiness has nothing to do with your temperature. I suppose it has to do with the internal heat generated within your internal organs when ( Read more... ) -
2018 Retrospective
People on Facebook are writing meaningful entries on their experiences in the past year, so I suddenly started thinking. What have I done?
Nothing! And that's the best thing!
In 2015, we moved countries and I left my job in the process. I was pregnant, we found a rental home in Wimbledon, London after a month or purgatory in a serviced apartment ( Read more... ) -
Money unexplained
So.. it started with an innocuous conversation about couches, and how they fold down so people can sleep on them. My 5 year old daughter, Ruth, then commented on how people should sleep on couches. I begged to differ. I told her a story of a bad man who was lousy with money, squandering it whenever he earned it and who ended up homeless and ( Read more... ) -
My baby girl VS my babyboy
It was Ruth's 4th birthday yesterday. I asked my sister - 'how do you think Ruth is different from Eoin?' Eoin was there (16 months old), standing in the playground, smiling, toddling around. falling frequently, and saying 'eh ( Read more... ) -
Being silly
I miss the good old days, days when you are say things like 'DID YOU KNOW??' and someone will reply 'NO!! I Don't believe you!' but it didn't matter, they didn't have the resources, or wherewithal to check ( Read more... ) -
Memories of Ruth
When Ruth was just born, i was really happy with the lot i was given, after the initial shock, of course. after about 10 weeks, it was great. She smiled. She slept. She fed well and she liked sitting in other peoples' arms as well as mine ( Read more... ) -
Guy fawkes 2016
It was guy fawkes a few days ago. In order to get into the premium fireworks event in our local park, i had to buy tickets at non members' prices and then offer to volunteer to get the priviedge to attend! It was worth is. We walked there, met lots of neighbours, saw familiar faces, and our kids could run around with the other kids ( Read more... ) -
Camping
This was the first time we went camping with the kids. Well.. this was the second time i went camping as an adult. I remember camping about four times in my childhood - once when i was 12 in the SPECHLL camp - we set up tents in a school garden and were fed food off styrofoam boxes and there were millipedes and centipedes everywhere and in between ( Read more... ) -
A classic anxiety dream
I work up from a dream (it's 4am ( Read more... )