The Ramblings of a Formerly Rock'n'Roll Mum -

St Georges Day and the Dragon Protection League.

It is St George’s Day. Happy St George’s Day. Although, on the whole I tend to defend the dragon. Bloody knights going round slaughtering endangered species, until the poor dragons are so close to extinction that they are forced to invent intergalactic travel and find a new planet to live on. History is my strong point, and biology, and astrophysics. OK, I have no strong points, except the odd good hair day. Back to the subject, St....

AntMusic

I took a trip back to my teenage years at the weekend, and without the poisoned sting of Botox. Well, I say teenage years, but in all fairness I never stopped listening to Adam Ant- his music is just one of those things that I carried on loving. I was too young to see him touring back in the day, so I was delighted when he started gigging again a couple of years ago. I went to see him twice when I was pregnant with Syd, and he was brilliant....

How To Fail At Dieting

1) Start dieting in the week leading up to Easter when chocolate pops out at you from every corner of every shop, and the kids are home and want to make chocolate nest cakes. You are of course under no obligation to eat said nest cakes. But do anyway. 2) Mix your eating plans. Invent your own unscientific diet based on the tastiest parts of several popular diet plans. Eat the high protein of the Atkins, alongside the carbs of the low fat diet....

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Syd’s pre-school have been talking about what they want to be when they grow up, they even have to dress up as their chosen thing in a couple of weeks. Syd’s answer currently is ‘a blue Pikmin’. For the uninitiated a Pikmin is a small character, that comes in various colours, from a video game that his brother plays. Nice to have an ambition, although I am baffled as to how to make the costume. He very sweetly keeps...

Saturday is New Home Caption Day

The ever splendiferous Annie from Mammasaurus has decided it is time to pass on the treasured Cap of Saturday-ness, but do not fear, there will still be a place to go when you need your funny pictures captioned! SatCap will now have four new hosts, and I am bloomin’ chuffed all the way down to my bobby socks to be one of them, alongside Keynko, Mummy Barrow and Kiddycharts. It is my turn first, and I have a blurry but hopefully amusing...

Anarchic Snap And Other Toddler Efficiency Drives

I taught Syd snap yesterday. The first round or two went very well, until he recognised the flaw in the rules. I say flaw, it isn’t really a flaw unless you are two and only care about saying snap as opposed to sticking to the general premise and waiting for them to happen naturally. His new more anarchic snap involves remembering what cards are further down the pile and rummaging for them before gleefully shouting...

Why do we care?

My twitter feed was full of heartfelt messages about the sad death of Peaches Geldof last night. None of us knew her, probably if you had asked us the day before we wouldn’t have had a huge opinion on her, except that most of us were on Team Geldof when she appeared with Katie Hopkins on This Morning a few months back. So why do we care so much? I think it is probably because a lot of my twitter feed is made up of Mums. Our hearts break...

Blog Your Heart Out

The lovely Swazi – blogger, DJ and fellow indie kid matron – has tagged me to answer these questions. And because I think she is awesome and love her blog, Chocolate Is Not The Only Fruit, I am going to honour her request! So here goes:- Who/What encouraged you to start blogging? One of my bestest mates and all round good egg, Lynn, had started her blog – A Slice Of Lemon’s Cake – and thought I would like it too....