Going to the zoo

And that's as close as you'll get to me singing that cheesey song! Mission: Attend British Mummy Bloggers meet up at London Zoo.  Leave house at 09:00 to arrive at zoo just after 10:00.  See plenty of animals, have lunch with the girls (and dads and kids), finish up at zoo ...

Untitled #15, The Christmas Edition

There's less than a month to go and now all the American types have gotten thanksgiving out of the way we can all start to look forward to that next important event. You got it!  Christmas. Now normally I'd be protesting that I didn't want to know until the week of, but ...

34 weeks, 5 days/32 weeks, 3 days*

The end is in sight.  I can reach for it, count down in weeks instead of months without the number (and the time it represents) scaring me.  But before I get there, I might just go out of my mind first.  You see I'm bored of talking about my pregnancy.  It's ...

We’re going on a bear hunt

"We're going to catch a big one. What a beautiful day. We're not scared." And I paused. "Uh-uh! Grass! Long wavy grass. We can't go over it. We can't go under it. Oh no! We've got to go through it!" The boy had no patience for me to continue his bedtime story; he was off.  "swishy swashy! swishy swashy! swishy swashy!" I turned the ...

A Right Grilling

Or not. I didn't even realise David Cameron was chatting live on Mumsnet until I saw it on Alpha Mummy, about five minutes after the whole thing had ended.  Still, I thought it might be worth going along to see what had been said.  Surely this time something more interesting than ...