Who do you think you are?
And then the fun began is messing with my head. I’m still thinking about her label blogpost. Read it. It’s good. But it’s provoked something of an existential crisis. Just who the buggering hell...
View ArticleI capture the castle
Getting it out of the way, I bloody love Norwich. It is my city, a fine city, filled with history, stories, and a wonderfully bolshy state of mind. But sometimes, the weight of history gets a...
View ArticleYou don't get it
Trigger Warning - don't read this if you're unsure about it. When you are a creature of routine, you tend to see the same people over and over again. Monday to Friday, doing the school run, I see...
View ArticlePeople are strange
I am frequently told that I am a bit ‘weird’. I really don’t think I am, but apparently this is how people see me. Meh. I’m not really bothered. What does bother me is people trying to be weird....
View ArticleStrange Week.
I woke up and my first thought was 'Fuck. I’m still alive. Fuck.' This is my strange week. Not as in ‘ooh, I’m so strange and weird, aren’t I?' week. No. This is the week when I start to look...
View ArticleCurses
Curses. I am massively annoyed. Except that, actually, I’m not. I appear to have lost my blogging mojo. Except that I haven’t. For those poor bastards who follow me on twitter, you may already...
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Helicopters vs Lentils
The Blondies go to a school described as ‘socially crunchy’. By this, I mean the catchment area covers everything from single bedroom council flats to eight bedroomed fuck off massive houses that...
View ArticleThank you for the music
Fucking ABBA. I think I may have posted, once or twice, a few times maybe, about music being quite important to me. I don’t know why, but I definitely do know why not, and that’s because of...
View ArticleGSOH
I am an embarrassment. Not an embarrassment of riches, which is what my name means, but just richly embarrassing. According to Alistair, anyway. It was just a relatively normal morning, we’d...
View ArticleDid you cop a feel?
I am angry. Really, really angry. I might not make much sense here, because I’ve reached that point of anger where you can only really articulate things like RAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!! And feel the...
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All a bit pedestrian
About a week before I spectacularly Lost The Fucking Plot, I had an unwelcome experience when picking The Boy up from school. This was an unusual event in any case – for the first five years of...
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My imaginary friends
I had an imaginary friend when I was a child. Bored, alone in the living room while my mum did other things, I thought ‘Hmm. I’ve heard some children have imaginary friends to play with. Maybe if...
View ArticleWhat hope?
Sometimes, you read something that so perfectly expresses itself, that the words become ingrained in your mind for the rest of your life. I had that experience with the following passage from...
View ArticleHow are YOUUUU?
I just had a bit of a weird experience on the way home. Walking with The Blondies, we passed a woman, a bout my age, who seemed familiar. Stop. ‘Hi Lucy!’ ‘Oh, wow! Hi Jane! How are you?’...
View ArticleSmothering Sunday
I have been reliably informed not to expect much on Mothers Day. We have a big summer holiday coming up, and all available funds are being diverted towards that. To be honest, I’m not massively...
View ArticleThings my mother taught me
To be honest, it’d be easier to title this ‘Things my mother tried to teach me’. My mother is the kind of practical, resourceful person, product of a 1950s childhood in Norfolk, who can tackle...
View ArticleThank you
A short one. Just a thank you really, to anyone who’s ever taken a few minutes of time to read the rambling and confused thoughts of an unemployable twatty blogger who is trying to make sense of...
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To Sir, with love.
Mr Burns. No, not the one from The Simpsons. Although if you do want to see a really freaky picture of Mr Burns, I have a photo of The Boy, aged about five days old... Not helped by the fact...
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Strange Day at Strangers' Hall
If you are a parent, then you will have been there. The day that dawns so brightly, so full of promise, your family bubbly and excited, ready for your day out… that quickly descends into A Bad Day...
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Whyyyy are weeeeee waiiiiiiting?
I’ve just found this – I was supposed to post it back in December, after Happy as a pig in a sauna. I’ve no idea why I didn’t. Probably running late for the school run, and then completely forgot...
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