Chez Spud

I’ve said it before but it’s worth repeating….this….man…is…a…god. The end.
EU President, blogger, writer of haikus and all round jolly good bloke Herman van Rompuy continues to dazzle me with his general brilliance. He’s not afraid to ring the changes, switching an EU summit meeting to the intimate surroundings of an old Belgian library, banning huge [...]

Let’s talk about love…not romantic love because I’m too old and too married for all that.
I think we’ll stick with motherly love,  altogether a much more palatable subject and very topical if you’re in the UK (since it’s Mothering Sunday here, but I think not in the US?). I was treated to breakfast in bed [...]

Sometimes I look at my beautiful, funny, warm, loving children and I can’t believe they are mine.
Other times I want to give them away…
But this was one of the moments when I couldn’t believe my great fortune.
Three blessings! MrSpud …one….Bertie…two…Digby…three.
One…two…three.
Such a fortune of blessings…a veritable triumvirate right here, right now.
xxx

Despite the combined efforts of a vomiting bug, a queried broken leg and the combined forces of National Express rail and my inability to keep hold of vital travel documents for 5 minutes….I made it to London yesterday to meet with seasoned Blog Campers Bee and Blanca. Getting home again was a whole other story [...]

BS…BS…BS…BS??? Blue Skies….Big Smiles….British Springtime…Balmy Suffolk (or should that be Barmy Suffolk?)…Beach Strolls…no Bull Shit…

Spring has sprung, it’s official. Brilliant blue skies, sunshine, warm breezes, hanging out on the beach without wanting to cry after 5 minutes = the first signs of Spring and I’m giddy with it. I don’t think I’m alone…

Thanks to The Domestic Sensualists via Julochka via Julochka’s grandmother for the gift of Banana Bread. And a special big thanks to Julochka’s daughter, Sabin, for her inspired addition of vast chunks of chocolate to the recipe. Such insight at the tender age of 9! Banana and chocolate go together like, er, banana and chocolate. [...]

Last Sunday was a busy busy busy day for Megaboy 2. Much of the day was spent dressed as an elf, because you can never be ready for Christmas too early can you? Then there were models to make…

Puzzles to be puzzled…

Most excitingly, there was a Big Boy’s Bed to be made with a lot [...]

I don’t remember Valentine’s Day playing any kind of role in my childhood, beyond a secret yearning for one of those vast and (I now realise) hideous padded cards, complete with saccharine verse inside. Valentine’s Day was for lovesick and sickening teenagers and dutiful married people.
I can remember the giddy expectant joy of it all [...]

I almost called this post ‘On women’ but thought it would attract the wrong kind of attention. The kind that you get on Flickr if you post a photo of your feet, the uglier the better apparently.
I’ve been thinking about women a lot recently, but not in that way. About how delightful, empowering, reassuring, encouraging [...]

Saturday…I helped my lovely friend Katherine relaunch her deli business at a local farmers market and it looked like this…

Sunday…Diggy’s 3rd birthday…I made a birthday cake, the first one I’ve ever made (and one of my 39 before 40 tasks)…it turned out better than I dared hope and tasted pretty good (faints in amazement)

And then [...]