Skip to main content

What I've been doing while I haven't been blogging (stolen title)

I'll hold my hands up and admit that I've stolen this title from I'll think of a title later's last entry. I just want to list the things I have been doing, to make me feel better about not having blogged for 12 days. Here goes:
  1. Being ill with a hacking cough that appeared without the preceding cold - bloody annoying
  2. Looking after a supposedly-ill child who is off nursery with bottom issues, but seems quite normal to me
  3. Spending two days in Bournemouth with my mum and dad, and Elf - lovely sunny days on the beach
  4. Sorting out my speeding fine and deciding whether to go on a Driver Awareness Course (I am, but it's in the next county to me)
  5. Worrying over whether we can afford our new house - status: survey done on ours for buyer, and our offer on our desired house accepted too, survey to be booked next week so not there yet but getting closer
  6. Being published - more details later but I have been asked to write a small piece on Work Life Balance for a local publication
  7. Trying to get my head around arranging childcare for the school holidays from September - it's a nightmare
  8. Worrying about my friend - get well soon.
I think that will do it. I will now get on and read all of your blogs and get some commenting done!

Comments

  1. ExmoorjaneFriday, June 04, 2010

    thank you for your lovely comment on my blog...

    and oh, poor you - sounds like you have a lot on your plate right now...house-buying is a total nightmare...ditto school holidays.. WHY are they so long?
    HUGE good luck jxx

    ReplyDelete
  2. Humdrum MumTuesday, June 15, 2010

    I am feeling a bit less sorry for myself now - thank you! -HMx

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Talk to me...

Popular posts from this blog

Would I Lie To You board family game review

Would I Lie To You? "The game of believable lies and unbelievable lies ", linked into the TV show of the same name. Purchased:  December 2017 in Waterstones, for around £20 In a nutshell: These TV show-affiliated games usually show themselves up (Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Top Gear) but this game is fun and easy to play (if a little modified) as a family. You don't really need specialist knowledge to play, just the ability to lie! Every year for Christmas, I like to buy a board game to play, even though no games better either Ludo (in which my dad is the reigning cheater-champion, and argues to high heaven over the rules about doubling up or how to place your counters in "Home") or Rummikub (which we can now play with two packs of cards lest we forget the game). This year, Would I Lie To You caught my eye in Waterstones (other emporiums - emporia? - for book lovers are [locally] unavailable). It's a game, it says, for 2-8 players; however we dec...
5 comments
Read more

A walk from Portchester Castle to Salt Cafe

Well we just had to choose the worst day of the year to walk. The date had been set weeks before - who knew there would be the worst winds of the decade almost on this very day? But we didn't want to be beaten. We will walk to the cafe. At least it wasn't raining! Parking is free next the castle and obviously, it wasn't busy this day! We set off around the outside of this medieval monument. The sea wall affords views across to Portsmouth and Gosport, and Portsdown Hill if you look behind. You can see the Spinnaker Tower in my photos, but you'd have to zoom in. The sea wall leads to a walk along a path, switching between grass (a much more sheltered area) beside a playpark, and the beach. It is an easy, flat walk, made slightly harder in the wind. After 1.75 miles, you reach the Salt Cafe (@saltcafe66). This took us one hour - that wind did slow us down! I've had a breakfast bap there before and remember it being delicious, but slightly expensive. But today, we...
Read more

That's not my Elf, he's too rude and noisy

At nursery drop-off this morning, I was handed part of Elf's transfer to school pack, you know, the bit that the pre-school teacher had completed and also that Elf had drawn in (looking worryingly like a blaze that Fireman Sam ought to be putting out instead of rescuing Norman's head from a saucepan with the "jaws of life"). Reading it, I had a sense of "That's not my child" in the way that the above tractor book is written. Surely, the little angel you've so kindly described here doesn't really exist, and certainly doesn't pretend to be my little Elf? So here is "This is not my child" book, by A Humdrum Mum. That's not my child He's too rude and noisy That's not my child He's uncaring and unkind (to me sometimes) That's not my child He wants to sit in front of the TV not run around in the garden That's not my child He won't help me take in the washing This is my child ...
10 comments
Read more