Chez Spud

I love love LOVE this headdress, I keep it on display in my china cupboard with a few other pieces of ghastly tat cherished items. I should probably get it mounted and framed or something but, ssshhh, sometimes I like to put it on and prance about a bit. I’m a big fat show off [...]

…see what’s become of me…(bonus points: name that song) Time is slipping through my fingers. I can feel it speeding up and speeding away from me, laughing in the face of my ‘to do’, ‘to action’, ‘to buy’ and ‘to grudge’ lists. The basics are sorted: children and MrSpud are relatively clean, happy and cared [...]

This was my birthday  present from MrSpud last year and I adore it. I had been hinting for a ‘nice pen’ and then held my breath and hoped for the best, and this was a really excellent choice…complete with a sapphire to match my engagement ring (although MrSpud admitted he had no clue that this [...]

I’m not sure that my wedding dress is a very sensible addition to the Ten Treasures list, given that I’m unlikely to wear it again (not least because I’ll never fit in it again). But it is very special to me, and symbolises the day I finally dragged MrSpud up the aisle and enslaved him [...]

Giddy. That’s what I’ve been all day, giddy. I went to London. On a trip. On my own with no husbands or children or pigs or pigs ‘n’ wigs or anything. And it was absolutely blissful. I spent the day with my ‘wife’, BFF and brilliant photographer Lyanne; we went to an exhibition, we walked [...]

Very cool little photobooth on the South Bank in London with a live feed to Flickr. Fantastic fun…write your message on a whiteboard, stand in the booth, SMILE and you’re famous.Well, on Flickr anyway. Me and ‘the wife’ thinking about wine for lunch, exhausted by a long morning of culture, photography and gossip. More photos [...]

So treasure 5, a letter from my maternal grandmother sent to me when I was 17. She was a difficult person, hard to love and often hard to like if I’m honest. Life wasn’t kind to her, she lost her mother young, her husband young, her twin boys died in infancy and then my mother [...]

DISCLAIMER: I am not a medical professional! A quick tip for parents of small children, or anyone who can’t manage to take meds as capsules. Tamiflu (Oseltamivir) was prescribed for us as ‘hard capsules’. Great – ever tried making a 2 and 3 year old take capsules? Hmm. There is a sticker on the box, [...]

Only a worry if the hypothetical fire happens at night, as I only take the pile of bling off at night..I just can’t sleep in jewellery. Full make up, skanky bitch style? Fine, no problem. But not my jewels. So my engagement ring (the sapphire), wedding ring and the Ring of Shame or ‘Medley of [...]

Voici Zebedee (“Time for bed? Boiiiiiiiiiing!”). He’s a bit battered and bashed because he’s been in my posession since the early 70s and, frankly, he’s been around the block a few times. But, then, haven’t we all? Is the Magic Roundabout an international thing? I can’t think its utterly English eccentricity would translate well In [...]