Chez Spud

Presenting Garfield, our neigbours’ cat. They moved in to their new home (and, in fact, our old home) in February. Mr Garfield escaped from the house within 24 hours but was spotted in our garden within a few days. We heard him breaking in to our kitchen one night looking for food, and managed to [...]

Look! No proper photo…I think this is my first post without a ‘real’ photo because, shock, I didn’t take my camera to Cybermummy. I just didn’t want to, I knew it would be a long day (it was) with lots of opportunities to put bags down and then forget them. So I just breezed in [...]

I’ll admit it, ‘yard’ isn’t perhaps the best word because there’s no getting away from the fact that our backgarden is alarmingly large. Nor from the fact that it’s been horribly neglected for years and years. The ‘lawn’ is now mostly moss, interspersed down the middle by Ragwort Alley. The ‘croquet lawn’ (on the right) [...]

You can now find me on Facebook. Not literally of course, just a page for my blog. I am needed in the Real World and thus cannot be spared to literally be inserted in to Facebook. Please skip over to the Chez Spud page on Facebook and ‘like’ it if you would like your Facebook [...]

‘Iconic London’….that’s what I’ve called that shot above. For what could be more iconic that the McDonald’s Men in their kit…mmmm, I’m lovin’ in. Ha. Today I went to London Town to visit the Queen. Well, actually to spend a day with lovely Bee but she’s very regal so it was almost like seeing the [...]

Raising boys…raising girls…raising children. Are they the same? I’m completely ill qualified to make any kind of judgement since I am the mother of boys, and boys alone. And that’s how it will stay. There will be no more Baby Spuds, for various reasons but not least because I don’t want any Girl Baby Spuds. [...]

To my boy, on the eve of starting school: Five…the number of years you so nearly are….five…the number of years we’ve hung out together…five…the years which are the most formative of a child’s life … five….the number of years it’s been since I parted ways with corporate life for you…five…the minutes that it seems like [...]

When my boys were babies I thought to answer to any parenting issue could be found in books or on the internet. No problem was insurmountable, if something wasn’t ‘working’ I just hadn’t researched the issue deeply enough. A bit more googling, a smidge more online chat, the purchase of yet another parenting tome would [...]

Ooooh Camera Club, haven’t done this for a while…have the biscuits gone stale in our absence? Should we get the club going again? Anyone need any help with anything, got a question…if so please leave a comment and I’ll wrap them up in subsequent Camera Club post. I’ve had a few email questions recently too, [...]

Mmmm, takes a moment to look around and note absence of butterflies…ah….sweet moment. Finally, thanks to the brilliance of Genevieve at Lilac Creative I have a template for Chez Spud that I adore. I’m so pleased. I’m fairly sure I was a nightmare client, poor Genevieve. Hopefully she’s reclining on a sofa somewhere feasting on [...]