Took the children to the Beaver Scouts Donkey Derby, where M was jumped on by a large ginger piglet and L got bitten by a rabbit.

Now that's the kind of fun day you just can't plan for.

At bed time L said 'It wasn't as good as I thought it might be'.

It's obviously a sign ( Read more... )

Last October my firstborn visited upon me a major back injury which lasted until after Christmas, at which point I vowed to go back to yoga, after a break of about 12 years. I started again this term, with an adult learning class of variously broken middle aged individuals and the obligatory shit hot bendy woman ( Read more... )

Mimi put some make up on for me. She doesn't need it because she's so beautiful, whereas I have a face like a robber's dog. Never have I known so much eye shadow and blush hit my face without out one single bit hitting my eyelid. I look like an exotic burns victim, purple and pink with a little blue and green across two thirds of my face ( Read more... )

don't post for months and then can't stop...

Just made the mistake of putting on nail varnish while on the edge of needing a piss... assuming I could hold it until it was dry. Fool - it's never dry enough to get jeans off!

Many thanks for the egg advice - I allowed my eggs to gently warm to room temperature, washed all my equipment immediately before use to remove grease and carefully removed any kind of offensive items at all from the yolks. I then spent a 'long time' whisking them ( Read more... )

...after so long off line, but does anyone have any suggestions for how to get my egg whites really stiff? My tiramisu keeps sliding - and I want a really firm one.

Cornflour was suggested, but it didn't seem to make any difference.

??????

... my small man put a tiny bead up his nose, and then when it wouldn't come out easily rammed it right up with his finger before becoming hysterical...

Aaaah, I remember the first time I rammed a bean up my own nostril... :)

James the goldfish, and a black widow (fish, not spider!) on last legs/fins in a coffee jar (of water) because I can't bear to watch it limping round the tank anymore, and Gordon the goldfish is surely not for this world much longer - looking depressed and raggedy ( Read more... )

For the last couple of years I have been receiving (as I assume the rest of the population has) junk mail fliers with faked up post it notes saying stuff like ( Read more... )