And I marked it appropriately by writing an ENORMOUS email to the National Secular Society about the day before's battle with the Boy and Little R's school head teacher and the mysteriously titled 'inclusion officer' (no, me neither) regarding evangelistic external visitors to the school ( Read more... )

Hey hey ( Read more... )

Off on our jollies tomorrow for a week. See you on the other side!

I occasionally wish my deeper brain would communicate with my upper brain in a clearer manner ( Read more... )

- I spent years refusing to shave my legs in a complicated mixture of political bandstanding, laziness and financial considerations, but there really is nothing quite like the sensation of having freshly shaved pins. Sorry, The Sisterhood ( Read more... )

Hmmm. Tough call for a Friday when quite a lot of work things ganged up to try and get me down. I'm not one to be defeated by the grumps though, so ( Read more... )

- Dropping the Boy off at school at the same time as his little pal H. The Boy has three main friends in his class... all girls! and I love seeing him toddle off through the gate with them. H beams particularly charmingly at him, but if they're all there on time, there's the Boy in the middle, a girl on either arm and the other one gamboling round ( Read more... )

1. Post about something that made you happy today, even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this every day for eight days.
3. Find yourself noticing happy things, even once meme is over.
4. Pat yourself on your cheery back.

DAY ONE: (Bank Holiday Monday ( Read more... )

For those of you who would like an explanation of my previous post, please look under the cut. Sometimes these things are better unexplained, which is why I've cut it, as well as for length and content.

( Contains disturbing stories from recent history... )

I am entitled to an opinion (still) and I'm bloody well going to express it!

(The above sentence aimed squarely at my parents for the time being.)

( Until the other week, I'd never even heard the term 'Collective Worship'. Now I have, and I am ANGRY... )