Waterloo, The Alamo and that bit of land the 300 Spartans were rather attached to. To this patchy list of memorable battle grounds must be added the name Polegate where, only last week, a significant victory over a formidable and determined adversary was clinched. We got Dylan to sleep in his ‘big boy bed’. Oh yes! …
Month: July 2012
This week hasn’t been dominated by anything in particular. Well it has actually, but I haven’t quite finished the post about the parenting achievement in question, so I’ll leave you in suspense on that front. But there have been a few little things worthy of mention. Most of them involve me being put in my …
She waits alone in a darkened corner of the room, almost hidden to the naked eye. Silent and vulnerable. She knows I am there, but we must wait for our opportunity to present itself. Outwardly, I appear relaxed as I sip ruby-red wine, its lingering taste on my lips reminding me of past conquests. But there is something burning deep within …
In case you missed the first one last week, Wednesday Witter – the brainchild of Sarah at Hello Wall… – is a new weekly opportunity for bloggers to assess their weeks so far. So, erm, here’s this week’s offering… My week has been dominated by the realisation that my brain seems to have turned to …
There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can add up and those who can’t. I *may* be a representative of the latter category there but, if recent developments are anything to go by, Dylan doesn’t look like he’s going to take after me and experience the humiliation of having to retake …
This is the first post in a new weekly thingy dreamt up by Sarah at Hello Wall… If you’re not already reading her stuff, you should. Only please come back here too. Anyway, she’s encouraging other bloggy folk to have a roundup of their respective weeks so far. Sounds like a good idea to me, …
So the original raison d’être for this very blog has reached the landmark of two years old. We’re not quite sure how this has happened, but that period of time has definitely elapsed since Dylan unceremoniously faceplanted his way into the world. I had the week off, so the celebrations managed to string themselves out …
