I’m not very good at shaving regularly. To be honest, it’s a faff that I can’t be bothered with every day. As a result, I tend to deal with it every couple of weeks when it starts to itch. Very technical and style conscious, I’m sure you’ll agree. Consequently, when I do get round to it, …
Month: May 2014
It’s been a while since I participated in a meme and I was wondering what to write about today, so this one was well timed – thanks to Tammy from Me and the Tiny 3 for tagging me! This one’s called TMI which, if that stands for what I think it does, is also the title of …
If there’s one kind of product I can be guaranteed to say yes to when friendly PR folk come calling, it’s stuff that has something to do with the consumption of alcohol. I realise this makes me sound like a massive lush, but I’m okay with that as this is cool – quite literally! The Corkcicle …
The floor of our front room has been the cause of much stress of late. It’s been pretty much covered in the stuff that Dylan and Xander just seem to accumulate. Numerous flimsy plastic toys , magazine covermounts and ‘toys’ from the inside of unfathomably expensive chocolate eggs had formed a play scene that could only have …
Remember the Charley Says safety information films from the late 70s and early 80s? For those who may be just a tad too young – tsk! – you may know it from a song by The Prodigy which sampled it. Anyway, those who do recall the verbose safety-conscious moggy and his young companion may be …
When Willem van Eekelen was diagnosed with stress-related heartburn that required him to relax, he duly obliged. Or at least tried to. The problem was that he only seemed to suffer the symptoms while he was at home. One day, while trying to spin two proverbial plates, he challenged his children to come up with games that required him …
The other day, we were trying everything we could to get Dylan to have a bath. I don’t know where his sudden hatred of them has come from – he’s nowhere near being a soap-dodging early teenager yet – but hate them he does. Xander was already in the bath, quite happily playing with his toys but, …
Can you remember what the weather was up to on certain momentous events in your life? There’s a common denominator to significant dates in our family and a strange one at that. The sun has always come out for the day despite it raining for the rest of the week. We were dreading what the weather …