Chez Spud

Here I am, throwing my toys out of the pram yet again. I’m not grimacing with fury (for a change), but with pain…turns out I’d been wildly optimistic in terms of calculating the likelihood of being able to squeeeeeeeeze my backside in to the pushchair. Spud’s arse in to pushchair does not go. I’m ashamed [...]

Ah, it’s the only child in me you see? I like to think of myself as a big hearted, sharing kind of person..what’s mine is yours, I’ll lend you anything HELL I’ll pretty much GIVE you anything if you ask. I have no issue at all with that. But if you take my stuff without [...]

I’m beginning to hate one of our cats, Parker. He’s always been a delight, friendly, full of character, a bit quirky, so tolerant of the boys and very handsome to look at. He has amazingly long whiskers and, as a result, MrSpud calls him our ‘wizarding cat’. Truly they are a MAGNIFICENT set of whiskers! [...]

So, I only like to watch films I’ve seen before. It’s not as daft as it sounds; watching a film takes a couple of hours of my life and I need to be confident it’s going to be worth the bother. Naturally there is a ‘bit’ of a flaw here in terms of actually watching [...]

I confess, I cheated again. MrSpud took this as I wasn’t in the mood for all the faffing with the tripod etc. So I set it up, painted my face bright green and woke him up from a sofa snooze to photograph me. It took him about 20 seconds to even notice anything was different [...]

Mwah ha ha. I don’t keep an ‘actual’ grudge book, because that would be crazy, right? But, I fess up, I do have a bit of a mental grudge book where I keep a rolling list of those unlucky souls who have slighted me in some way over the years. Because that’s not crazy, right? [...]

Oooh, it’s a game and it’s all about me. Two of my best favourite things. Here are five questions put to me by the fragrant Extranjera. 1. How has the transition from a flicking gal to a bloggin’ babe been? How are you settling in? I’m settled right in thanks. I’ve moved on from an [...]

Whilst pondering my 5 random favourite things today I considered ‘Small Blue Thing’ by Suzanne Vega as one of my song choices. But then I remembered how dreary it is and the fact that I hearted it as a teenager is no basis for its inclusion, since all teenagers are hard-wired to be gloomy and [...]

Spent much of the morning pondering on the word ‘meme’…what is it….what does it mean…where did it come from…how do you pronouce it…and does it need feeding like a small pet of some sort? Having established what it is  I pushed on and rose the not insustantial challenge of Molly’s 5 random favourite things. My [...]

Care to dance? Fancy a spin round the dancefloor with me? Spin me, twirl me, jitterbug and whirl me…let’s bop, let’s jive, let’s shimmy and shake…let’s strut our stuff until our big fat ankles ache… Oooh I’m getting all poetic. Rhyming ‘n’ everfink. So do you? Care to take a spin with me and  dance [...]