Category: family

March 26, 2024

The one where we finally got married

Those of you who’ve been following my blog (or my pathetic whining) for a good few years will know how much I longed for…
May 28, 2020

Going Viral – The Blogalypse 10 – ‘The New Normal’

Adapting to the strange new world of semi-lockdown blues.
April 12, 2020

Going Viral – The Blogalypse 9 – A tin foil hat is not PPE

Sleep deprivation, poverty, hunger, sweaty buttocks…these are the catalyst for the next phase…we’re just a few weeks away from total societal breakdown and we know it. At least we don’t have cystitis yet
March 30, 2020

Going Viral – The Blogalypse 7 – Holding out for a Hero.

My mum used to say ‘No man will marry you if you’re undomesticated.’ She never once said, ‘You’ll die of a killer virus if you don’t learn to whip round with the j-cloth and a bit of Domestos once in a while you filthy mucker.’
March 26, 2020

Going viral – The Blogalypse 6 – The Stupids

I wonder how long we’ll keep it up before it becomes a carnage of naked people, smeared with their own excrement, running wildly through the street singing Kanye West songs and stabbing each other with umbrellas.
March 24, 2020

Going Viral – The Blogalypse 5 – Vera Lynn and Tortoise Porn

If you really need to have your mind taken off the virus and all the impending doom it brings with it today, then tortoise porn is a delightfully good rabbit hole to fall down.
July 26, 2018

Welsh toes and other abominations – (Adventures in DNA part two).

Some people remember what they were doing the day Kennedy got shot, or when Elvis died, or some other iconic tragic newsworthy moment. I…
April 24, 2018

Camp Joy

I recently had the joy of being dragged round a local ‘outdoor pursuits’ shop by my boyfriend in his quest to find running paraphernalia…
April 11, 2017

Adventures in DNA – Part One

Some people get into geneology to find out where they came from. I just wanted to know where my pubic hair came from.
September 7, 2016

Travel log – Day seven (part two) – Coffee and Comino.

Where did we get to? Oh yes…after lunch. Well, I’d felt under a little pressure for the first time all week. Not in a…