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If I Could Have Just One Room
The lovely Georgie over at the uber beautiful blog Visual Toast tagged me in her post If I Could Have Just One Room. And I just had to do my own version… if nothing else than to justify my many misspent hours drooling over Pinterest – though […]
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Tender
Yesterday a lovely blog reader shared a comment on my post about doing battle with my daughter: “I know this scene! We can do that dance. Just last night. Afterwards my daughter made me a card, carefully cut out with coloured in love hearts and best […]
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Raspberries in October
Nothing says abundance like ripe raspberries in October. Wandering around the garden, the golden leaves falling from the trees in ever greater numbers each day, the smell of damp, a lone wasp searching out a home for the winter. And there, in the midst of […]
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The Matador
“I love you mummy,” she whispers in the dark. Warm body curled into mine. I am the matador. She the bull. We have danced our dance. Her horns, my red cape. Swirling, skidding, almost colliding, side stepping. The chance of a goring always close. Ten […]
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Prinkle Karma
“My tights are too tight,” she wails, “They’ve got prinkles!”Legs thrashing she lies on the floor. Distraught with discomfort. What are prinkles? you ask. Fucking karma, that’s what it is. Invisible fucking botherances which require an hour of smoothing and stretching and un-stretching, and taking […]
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Shopping when Goddess-sized
I have just spent a happy-sad hour, drooling over my Funky Mama Clothes Pinterest boards… clicking through links on beautiful garments… and then realising it doesn’t come in my size. I hate clothes shopping. Online. Off line. Always have, always will. The whole purpose,it seems […]
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It’s not Perfect
The thing with having finished a book and knowing it’s at the printers is the little worm in my ear, who keeps trying to burrow into my brain – “it’s not perfect…” he reminds me…(as if I didn’t know) “you should have…. and you forgot […]
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Join the Carnival of Creative Mothers!
You’ve been on this journey with me for a long time, dearest reader. And the birth is in sight… (so bear with me as I break into colour and different sized fonts! That’s what happens when I get over excited! The Rainbow Way: Cultivating Creativity […]
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Dear Blogger…12 Reasons Why I Don’t Comment on Your Blog
Hey there, I’ve been reading you for ages… but we’ve never met. You’ve made me laugh till the wee ran down my legs. You’ve made me cry, big bawling snotty sobs, sending me to bed with a racing head and aching heart. You’ve made me […]
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Mindful Nurturing: Play
Play… sometimes we set up activities, sometimes it spontaneously evolves. Pants super heroes. Cardboard box rockets. Yesterday, here at the Pink House, we had SO much fun with our new glue gun! And using a white pen to create white on black zentangles. But for […]
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