The first thing I learned with this seminar is pretty obvious; don’t expect to attend on time, a seminar on motherhood which starts at 9am. After swearing at every car driving under 50mph for the entire 40 minute drive, I arrived at the car park at 9.15am and was met by a swarm of other…
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She May Be Freezing – But She Is, Like, Totes Trendy!!
OK, so maybe I’m getting old but what’s with this thing teenagers have about wearing coats? Or rather, not wearing them. Yes I can hear the inner granny in me raging but baby it’s cold outside! Flaming freezing in fact! Every morning I fling my daughters coat in her direction and then fling it at…
Is there ever a ‘well deserved’ smack?
How do you discipline children without smacking them? I realise there are two opposing camps on this subject, Pro and Against. I am in the latter group. I have to admit that sometimes the naughty step just does not cut it, especially when my daughter struts into the living room with a self-made sandwich, juice…
The Age Old Question
I have just finished reading an intriguing article entitled ‘Bin your biological clock’. It is essentially a piece written to reassure women in their 30’s and upwards that they should not worry about leaving procreation of their mini-me’s until later in life. I read with amusement the sentences ‘babies take planning but they don’t have…
Stop the Santa Stress
Last week I received an e-mail from my funny fairy aka Sam, good friend & ex-college. Having worked in the same office for a few months she understood the need for jolly e-mails to be passed round in order to interrupt the deadline induced stress. This latest e-mail however took jolly to a whole new…
Resolutions Wearing Thin
It’s January 2nd and I am standing in my kitchen transfixed by the biscuit barrel. Jammy Dodgers are calling from the confines “Eat me, I dare you”. The New Year stand off has begun, Lyndsey Versus Lardy Food. I allowed myself to indulge without guilt, fear or limit this Christmas. As I tunefully caroled to my husband…
Protecting my Bubble
“Lynz, I am not in the slightest bit interested in her. Yes she is pretty but that does not mean that I am after her. I just work with her and anyway, she has 2 kids. You have nothing to be jealous of!” Ok Ladies, how many of you have heard this kind of…
Porno Pop
“I like big butts and I cannot lie” in a “thong, thong, thong, thong, thong” so “lick my lollipop” till “I can get my satisfaction”. Are you feeling uncomfortable reading this yet? This is just a selection of songs offered up to me from the multiples of music channels on digital TV. Fine if not…
Mothers Guilt and Me
Mothers guilt plays a big part in my life, dictating what time I get up in the morning through to how much ‘ME’ time I allow myself. I sometimes wonder if other mothers may have ever invested a full days energy into self-punishment because they had bullied their kids for the third morning in a…
