Logophilia

I have a confession to make to you. I am having a love affair. A passionate, toe tingling, heart-wrenching love affair. I have all the usual ‘being in love’ symptoms. That slightly ill feeling. Random transitory moods of weepiness alternated with extreme euphoria which I can’t quite verbalise. Obsessive thoughts and lying awake at night thinking about [...]

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Why I’m finding blogging a little like highschool

I wasn’t particularly popular at school (it’s ok ex-school mate readers, you can nod in agreement). I was also clever, but not THAT clever. Average clever. (More nods). But I wanted to be both. Desperately. I existed on the periphery of the more elitist social groups. Kind of cool by association but obviously not cool, especially [...]

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Pieces of Me

I have to say that I am REALLY enjoying this blogging thing. I’m eagerly anticipating the moments when I can steal a little time away to write. It’s becoming a kind of refuge this blog. A way of de-stressing and unwinding, of laughing at myself and helping me not to take things too seriously. And [...]

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Why I am not a supermom

First of all I have to ask. Which one of you has cursed my house? Because, as is fast becoming an almost weekly occurance in our family, we have been struck down by the illness fairy once again. And by ‘we’ I mean ‘me’. A throat infection, a low-grade fever and the weak-and-wobblies have meant Kai has once again [...]

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The Two Habits Of A Highly Effective Baby And Other Stories.

Morning all. Well it’s been an eventful few days in our house after a strange turn of events led me to start writing on a blog chronicling the ins and outs of a rather complicated online game based around the tv show LOST (which is btw THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE HISTORY OF TIME!). Doesn’t [...]

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