I’m sorry if I’ve lured you here in the hope you’d see me nude and all Miley Cyrus-esque on a wrecking ball (what a frightening thought) .. but alas, no. I have vivid childhood memories of how angry my parents used to get when my siblings and I broke or …
Yesterday I was in the car with my kids and out of the blue Luca said to me … “Mum, why don’t you have a job?”. In an instant the hair stood up on the back of my neck. All bristle like. So I said, “I do have a job, I …
Sometimes I look at the state of the toilet in my kids bathroom and I wonder “how the hell did they even do that? Is it physically possible?” Boys are disgusting. Mine are only aged 6, 4 and 2 and already my house has taken on the scent of a …
Its been five weeks since we arrived in Sydney. I’m having a love hate relationship with it at the moment and can’t work out which way I’m going to swing. Some days I wake up desperately missing London and by lunchtime I have a mental list of ten thousand things …
Well. We’re all here. Rob and my Mum arrived from London this morning with Charlie and Jude. They both looked liked they’d spent the night in the slammer and my Mum even had a completely bloodshot eye to complete her sleep-deprived and frazzled look. Their flight arrived at 5am so …
Well we made it. We are here. I didn’t die in the process, refuse to get on the plane, nor did I lose my mind – or even cry the entire way from Heathrow to Sydney .. only the London-Dubai leg! As usual there was drama including seized goods on …
I am always on the lookout for things to blog about. Amusing things. Luckily I live in a country whose media offer me a plethora of things to laugh about pretty much each day. In fact I needn’t look much further than a certain media publication, but more about that …
Unfortunately a funfair has popped up not far from us for the duration of half-term holidays. My kids can sniff out their dodgy hotdogs from miles away so there’s absolutely no avoiding going when they come to our local area. Growing up in Australia it’s just not something you really …
Describe what family happiness means in 140 characters or less: Family happiness is 4 healthy children following a stillbirth that left my heart in a billion pieces. Love really is all you need. And cake. https://limetr.ee/en/home
I’m fairly certain I’m going to be one of those psycho mother-in-laws. The type you sometimes hear referred to as monster, dragon … or vampire bat. I have visions of my sons’ girlfriends talking to their friends saying “I’ve met this really great guy but his Mum is such a …
In a couple of weeks I’m doing my first half marathon. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t shitting myself a bit. I’ve done the hard work and think I’m as prepared as I can be, but there’s still a little niggling of self-doubt. It seems like only yesterday …
As I was writing my blog yesterday about our romantic getaway, I remembered something that happened to me a few years ago, one of those embarrassing moments that you like to forget and pretend didn’t happen. I’m good at doing that because I’m fairly excellent at making a complete dick …
I am a shouty Mum. I really hate writing that because it’s one of the things I don’t like about myself. I like to think I’m quite self-aware, I’m pretty clear about my character flaws and shouting at my kids is one of them. Parenting does that to you, it …
Today I had to go for my annual checkup at the gynaecologist. I thought about trying to rephrase that to make it sound less like someone was going to look up my patootie but there’s no sugar coating a trip to the gyno really, is there? Anyway while I was …
Every once in a while I am reminded that my kids are getting older and that I am no longer the centre of their world and can do no wrong. This ‘once in a while’ has been becoming more and more frequent and I’m not sure I like it. Last …