The Rocket Launcher of London

I grew up listening to the sounds of sleeping.  My dad did it, my mum too.  When we stayed at my nan's house she did it and my grandad's night long mumbling and thumping is still cause for many a joke.  He's a martyr to his insomnia, don't you know.  ...

The Girl Loves to Shop

We'd planned to go in to town this weekend to watch the Lord Mayor's Show and fireworks but the boy got invited to a birthday party and was much more taken with the idea of going to see Fantastic Mr Fox and eating pizza.  Unfortunately for the husband, I saw ...

The Tooth Fairy

As I got in to work yesterday I fired up tweetdeck to find a rather interesting tweet, with a photo.  This photo. Yeah, my boy was missing a tooth.  I'd expected it, tried to prepare myself for it, but damn that thing was only wobbling a little.  Surely it wasn't time ...

32 weeks, 5 days/30 weeks, 3 days*

Tuesday was a quiet day for the lump.  We get them sometimes.  His kicks will be few and far between but he usually picks up by the evening.  There's nothing like kicking your father's hand whilst he tries to watch TV.  But he didn't get moving that evening, and the next ...

Girl Talk Thursday: Fictional Five

Remember a few months back when GTT had us admitting to our list of five?  Well Diane's now admitted that she left a few actors off of her list because she only found them attractive because of the character they played.  Well that's not entirely a problem for some of ...