Early start

I wanted a lie-in today but Babba-Boo wasn't having it. She woke up dead on schedule for a school day. So no lie-in. Daddy and Big Boy are going swimming with Grandad so in a way today will be just like a school day anyway! I can hear Big Boy clattering downstairs making a sound like an alarm clock now so I had better get some breakfast on the table.

Christmas

Christmas came early this year. Usually I have a rule that I don't even think about Christmas presents until after Halloween, but I spotted some puzzles that will do as stocking fillers for DS in mid-October and it seems to have been downhill from then on. We put the Christmas decorations up last Saturday and it's not even advent yet! The Advent tree is sitting bare on the shelf awaiting Saturday when we can start decorating it with tiny wooden Father Christmases and Snowmen. But I have to admit when faced with a Saturday as miserable and dark and grey as last Saturday it did cheer the house up to add a selection of tinsel to the pictures and 40 LED's on an artificial tree to the corner of the living room. And it kept DS from bouncing off the walls too much.....

Daft Things You Say as a Parent - An Occasional Series #1

"Cows play the keyboard gently."

A beginning

Every blog has to have a first post. Perhaps the writer wants to introduce themselves, perhaps they can't wait to get into blogging and they launch into the first of a series of tirades about the way the world is. This is the first post of a new blog. I don't know yet how this will turn out. Perhaps I'll end up with a witty series of comments satirising and stereotyping daily life as a full-time Mummy in an English suburb. Or perhaps I'll end up with a string of complaints about the idiots that inhabit the same patch as me. Or perhaps (and very probably most likely) this will fizzle out in a few weeks leaving whatever readers as may have found it wondering what happened, and correctly guessing that life got in the way.

Well that was almost an introduction, and not really a tirade. It was a beginning, and hopefully not and end!