Jedward!

Billy was stuck in a traffic jam on the M2 motorway into Belfast.  Suddenly a man knocks on the window and Billy rolls down the window and asks what's happening.  The man says that the UDA have kidnapped the X Factor twins and are asking for £10 million or they ...

The Baby Shower

One of the first questions the sister in law asked after we told her we were having another baby was would we be having a baby shower.  That one was easy.  No. I wasn't entirely comfortable with the idea of a baby shower the first time round.  Probably for one of ...

Modelling Next?

A few years back when a certain bog roll company started running ads with a toddler posing as their manager, the husband did one of their photo shoots.  He came back that evening rather taken by the whole idea of getting the boy in to modelling.  I scoffed.  There was ...

Last of the Mohicans

So last week the boy spents a few days at the mother in laws.  They had plans for the circus, a sleepover with his cousin (well ok, the husband's step-father's nephew - yeah, cousin) and a trip to the cinema.  On Thursday morning the mother in law called.  She wanted to ...

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It's 31 weeks 2 days/29 weeks* for those of you who are keeping track. Two weeks ago was rough.  I crashed completely and couldn't carry on.  The sleeplessness, the nausea, the sickness.  They were all too much.  And so I crashed.  And spent two days in a daze.  That Tuesday I ...