Dipping Into The Water Butt

Well we’re here! Actually we’ve been here since Tuesday but have had a bugger of a time getting our Internet connections up and running (we’ll be boycotting Tiscali, but that’s another story) so haven’t been able to get online proper until now. Just the odd visit through Richard’s dad’s connection. Long story but we’re online […]

Leo’s inspired me to write a post again. What is it with the man?
This time it was his post about his young daughter and her love of books that got me thinking about my own children and how they’ve developed on the reading front.
As most of you already know, I have three children. Paul’s 28 […]

These are searches made on Google recently and that have lead the searcher to my water butt.

pictures of jordan with no knickers
morphine dipping
mia dolan
bungee jumping in dartford
ghostbusters in the home
dogging in 4×4
elephant.jpeg
door dipping in Kent
betty’s utility room
big black spiders house early autumn

Some I can understand but others… well, the mind boggles. I mean, why would […]

We’re off to Kent for a month, to our country residence. Well, Richard’s parents’ house actually, but we can always pretend.
It’s a lovely old house on a small holding near Ashford (Bromley Green, anybody?) and as the parents-in-law are off to Australia to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, we have the job of looking after […]

Some of you will have read this earlier. For some reason I managed to delete it just as a couple of you (Leo and Caroline) were commenting. Sorry. You must’ve wondering what on earth was going on.
I’ve tried to re-write the post as close to the original as I could. Here goes:
Having read Leo’s post […]

As some of you will have read, I’ve been busy researching a book I want to write - a book about a poor woman living around 1910. It was inspired by and will be loosely based on my own great-grandmother’s story, including an illegal abortion, baby farming, child abuse and other stuff. BUT — and […]

Well everybody else is doing it so I’m doing it too! (Err… by ‘everybody else’ I actually mean my daughter Lise and my mate Carol but anybody who knows me will know that I’m prone to exaggeration)
Here you go, what my birthday means:

Your Birthdate: September 1

You are a natural born leader, even if those leadership […]

Middle and Youngest Child have both chosen boyfriends who have birthdays one week apart. Why did they do this? Was it deliberate in order to make me shell out lots of money at one time? I think so. My girls can be harsh when they like!
Who do they get it from? Well I did give […]

So, McDonalds have finally succumbed to public demand and started producing hedgehog burgers.
No?
Oops. Wrong information. Let’s start again.
McDonalds have finally succumbed to public demand and have changed the design of the McFlurry ice-cream containers.
Have you ever had a McFlurry? If you have, you’ll know that there’s a clear plastic lid with a large hole in […]

I received an email this morning. It’s dated 1st January 1970. I was, at that point, 9 years old.
The email can’t be read; neither can it be deleted. It’s been sent from “Unknown” and the subject is (no subject).
Either this is a ghost mail sent long before the Internet existed in our world and has […]