The tortoise is being a stroppy teen. The chiropodist who was meant to deal with my hard skin… hasn’t. I am minorly wounded instead. I had a deeply unpleasant experience with my fridge-freezer delivery men last Friday. Project Potty has been abandoned, much to the profound relief of all protagonists. We all love Pampers. Harry’s [...]
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Failing to function Hail, Appliance, and farewell! Your tenure was brief. * 6 + 7 across: Fridge-Freezer. The crossword clue? ‘Quite large paperweight’. * The finish is nigh Hairy refrigerator Meets its Recycler * Premonitory Lights. Augural drip-dripping Rain. Fuck and alas. * Yours…?
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Harry will be three (eeep!) in early August, and I am dutifully making him a birthday card to be shown on cBeebies, the UK children’s channel. The links are pre-recorded, so they require the cards at least 4 weeks in advance. I am not nearly as confident as I was about last year’s effort, particularly as I have [...]
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Today has not gone well. It has been Potty Training Day One. There are twelve pairs of drenched pants and associated trouser-items awaiting my attention (but in an isolated gleam of good news, half a bottle of thin bleach and a 90 degree wash has sorted the washing machine smell) as not a single wee hit the potty, [...]
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are shit. We moved into our house 6 years ago this summer, and bought several shiny new appliances to match the shiny new house we’d just built. (Yes, we. My hands and lumbar region have never quite recovered from lugging breeze blocks about, and picking the builders’ cigarette packets off the floor, despite my pointedly supplying a well-placed [...]
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So. EEG result letter: ‘in view of your concerns about possible seizures…’ Ummm… wha? Seizures? I’ve never thought Harry suffered from seizures! He hasn’t had a seizure since he was 48 hours old! ‘…there was no evidence of interictal epileptiform activity or focal abnormality.’ So. Not epileptic, then. Erm… good? He does still have the occasional peculiar [...]
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Item: The lovely Robyn asked what I had actually intended to post about when Harry’s Mmmum! distracted me, and for the life of me, I can’t remember. It’s been a whole 48 hours, and my short-term memory is banjaxed. I can just about remember that I went to see BeeCee and her delightful little son yesterday, but that [...]
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but Harry learnt a new word this morning.
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I wish I had a fiver – a quid, even - for every time I’ve been happily told by a fellow Speech Worrier that once kids start talking ‘you can’t shut them up.’ I am difficult to reassure on this particular topic, but, as it happens, my informants have been – broadly – correct. True: I can’t [...]
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