Perhaps this should be one of those years, where I don’t bother making any New Year’s resolutions. Then, if I achieve anything in 2011 it will be a bonus! If I get through 2011 without a two-month cold and an unbroken heart and still have managed to not appear on The Jeremy Kyle Show, I will see 2011 as an incredibly successful year. Read the rest of this article »
Usually, I hate Christmas. I’ve realised it’s because I never know what my plans are until literally days before. I spend months worrying about being alone at the loneliest time of year, thinking of all the people I miss. This year, it’s great having plans! Now I know why my mum asks me what I am doing at Christmas… from July onwards. Next year I may surprise my mum by asking in June what she would like for Boxing Day breakfast. Read the rest of this article »
I have a problem. I’m on two a day and sometimes more. I don’t know how to give up. Or if I even want to. I used to think that I could stop whenever I wanted to, that I didn’t need them, but now I am not so sure. I get really shivery and moody when I don’t have them. Perhaps I can wean myself off slowly. Recently, I am ashamed to say, I’ve been on three a day… Baths. Read the rest of this article »
I didn’t send my child to the ‘kool school’. I sent her to the one with the best grades, praying she will then follow an academic road in life, rather than the artistic path I find myself a bit lost on…
Obviously if she excels at art, then so be it, I won’t try to stop her wanting a creative career, but if I can veer her away from it, I will try!
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School is monotonous. I am finding myself in a groundhog day-style routine of getting up, nagging child to eat/dress, and if I am really having a good day, successfully getting her coat on. Usually I give up on that battle and carry the coat to school for her, every few minutes cajoling her: “Its cold, isn’t it? I can see my breath…” Skipping up the road she shouts: “Nope! Not cold!” Then she stops a squillion times to look at stuff. Listening to my nagging it sounds like: “Come on, we’re late. Can you please not stop to gaze at the wonder of nature! Life is not about the journey, its about the destination!”
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Hello winter. Hello colds. Current cold duration: 10 days. I wonder if I will get a week off before the next one?
I’ve received emails from the child’s father; he sounds open and reflective. Not him at all! He must be jet-lagged crazy tired. I almost feel sorry for him but quickly slap myself around the face, and remind myself he left me pregnant and again now he has gone. I wonder if this trip will be good for him. He seems confused that no-one speaks English, especially cab drivers. He’s halfway round the world! I reply that I’m sure if the Chinese cab drivers had a degree in English they wouldn’t be picking up tourists from the airport. He says he has seen some terribly disfigured beggars at the station: “I get the impression life is pretty cheap here, and if you are not too careful, this place could chew you up and spit you out.”
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Only in Brighton. Only in Brighton do you knock on your neighbour’s door to complain about the noise and end up doing ‘Street Dance’ with them. And be offered a cup of tea. With soya milk! It makes me feel all warm inside. Read the rest of this article »
It took one van, one taxi and five estate car trips to move the rubbish that I have collected through my lifetime. My belongings now stare me in the face, in boxes – piles of disorderly towels, picture frames and pots all shout at me to be put away first. “Me me me!”
I hang all the pictures first.
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Your daughter, (this is your 37-year-old single daughter), who is a mother of one, and talented and witty, (although women aren’t funny according to Jim Davidson but “I admire them for trying”) is asked out on a lunch date with a man, and even though she is still post break up, considers it, and asks if you would you mind babysitting, what would your very first reaction be? Read the rest of this article »
One of ‘those’ days. I had one yesterday. Anything that could go wrong, went wrong. The recipe involved a trip to London to visit the grandmother and DIY. Any trip with a small child is laborious, so I made sure the iPod was charged, (Little Mermaid on there) and I had packed plenty of spare child pants… I forgot to pack myself a pair, but remembered the iPod headphones so I think I got my priorities right. Read the rest of this article »
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