I have a general issue with misreading things as being funnier, weirder, or ruder than they actually are. Or even all three.

( Cut for the f-word... )

Overheard at teatime for a five-year-old's birthday party:

"Mummy, can I have some more cock porn?"

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Had an interesting time last weekend, as the index case of an outbreak of a vomiting bug (likely norovirus) at a party weekend in a country house. The guilt at being the source of so much woe is, I think, worse than the bug itself. (Really sorry folks!) Luckily only I and **TODO were stricken during the weekend, and he wasn't particularly unwell ( Read more... )

There are some challenges in parenting where you never know until you finally face them how - or indeed if - you will be up to dealing with them. So, for instance, you might have a serious and profound squick about one of the icky substances babies tend to exude, and you will find out the hard way whether you can conquer that to deal with the ( Read more... )