Well, after five horrid christmases this one was a corker! My house was full of people laughing, eating and drinking from lunch time until three in the morning, I was exhausted but very smug and very happy. Even my lovely son was positive and praised me in front of out guests. You could have knocked me down with a...rizzla ( Read more... )

It's Sunday afternoon and after a good lie in and an excellent film (Tuesdays with Maurie) I sat down to talk to my pain in the arse son. I have to get through to him that he must respect others, his home and especially me. If he doesn't learn, what chance does he have in life? I was very calm. I told him we were to have breakfast together. 'Now ( Read more... )

I've just watched one of those 'how to bring up your kids' shows. It's left me feeling really guilty because they kept emphasising consistency, boundaries, quality time. Looking back, I've been unable to provide any of that, consistently. It worries me that not only has my 16 yr old has lyme since he was born, he has also never had a well mum to ( Read more... )

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I drove past an Age Concern van the other day. It's driver obviously had a sense of humour. The large notice on the rear screen read- 'No elderly people kept in this van overnight.' Made me smile, anyway, despite feeling poorly yet again. Then I drove past a horsebox pulling a caravan. It said on the side 'Nottingham horse ball team.' I wonder- ( Read more... )

Well, led in my attic room bed the other morning I could have sworn it was raining - pitter patter..... Went to the window and nope, sunshine. so what was the noise on my roof, which sounded like raindrops? The starlings- quite a flock of them had landed one by one on my roof and others aound me. Fantastic to watch, again. Then I looked down into ( Read more... )

Oh well, following a marvelously 'normal?' weekend (healthwise) when I actually had the chance to get out and about and have some fun has come to an abrupt end. Pity, it was good to feel like I could have an ordinary existence being a perv. Now I'm back to flu-like symptoms, sweating and feeling sleepy. But at least a conversation over the weekend ( Read more... )

Yes, our pampered rat splodge has made it. I'm sat here now watching her sleep. She has a lot of stitches and a lot less fur, but she's alive and eating and drinking. Fantastic. My son has learned a lesson too. He was insisting that I was 'tight' for telling him I didn't want to keep putting his pet through this if lumps kept recurring, but now he' ( Read more... )

Hooray! I took my son to the docs today, and she has finally agreed to treat my son, who has an illness not officialy listed by the NHS(lyme disease) as the medical profession don't believe it's here in this country and therefor it is not picked up or reported, so it doesn't exist!!!!!! Do you get the logic there? I don't ( Read more... )

Well, of course I got sick over the bank holiday- poorly sick in fact. Lost my voice, coughed and spluttered, dragged myself around with flu like symptoms - until my dear freind made me home-made onion soup. Eureka-MY VOICE CAME BACK. Temporarily, granted, but the power of plants and instinct for what we need should never be under-estimated. I even ( Read more... )