I've an urge to write more about my visit to the Bishop's House (http://www.museums-sheffield.org.uk/museums/bishops-house/home) in Sheffield this weekend than just a passing Facebook update, so here goes ( Read more... )

1. Anupam Kher (the dad from Bend It Like Beckham) is in practically everything ( Read more... )

... it's not like we're short of soap in this house, since I started making it over the summer.
I ran her some water, handed her a bar of soap, and she played happily for an hour. I sat on the loo seat behind her and read Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief. So we were both happy.


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The latest in the saga of the toddler group accusation is that I'm going to have to look for a new playgroup, sooner rather than later ( Read more... )

Am finally calm enough to write in here exactly what happened on Wednesday this week, having spent about 36 hours in a rather shakey and near-tearful-at-times state ( Read more... )

The small details of life usually end up on Facebook these days, which means I don't like to repeat myself - despite the fact that not everyone gets to read them on there ( Read more... )

I had coffee with (Verity and) CMW this morning, who was one of my major crushes in my lower sixth year at school ( Read more... )

It is rather galling to hear one's own language being repeated back to you by one's almost two year old ( Read more... )

I DID IT ( Read more... )

Two further successes today - we got through the certificates for two little boys who died between 1904 and 1907 ( Read more... )