Monday Tune

Monday Tune

I Don’t Wanna Group Up by Tom Waits   Tom Waits knows how you feel about coping with the big wide world. It’s worse on Mondays.  
Birthday Cake

Birthday Cake

My husband mocks me about my war time cookery ability. Not that I can cook a meal from an ounce of liver, powdered egg and a home grown carrot, but that I can cook in a war zone.   I am daft enough to think that the chaos around me will not affect me in the...
A Tale of Two Mothers

A Tale of Two Mothers

This is the tale of two very different parenting styles…   We took board games on holiday. We were wifi-less and prepared. The Cargers were not in the Brownies for nothing.   After Uno, Cluedo (and forever more “White, in the Courtyard, with the...
Monday Tune

Sunday Tune

Walt Grace’s Submarine Test, January 1967 by John Mayer   I am obsessed by this song. Let it wash over you a few times and enjoy.   And for once in his life it was quiet, as learned how to turn in the tide, and the sky was aflare when he came up for...
Jimmy Malone James

Jimmy Malone James

I have a dog. His name is Malone. He is a miniature schnauzer. He is the best dog.   I have wanted a dog forever but it was never the right time. Then we got Malone. He’s an eejit. He eats bird poo, is scared of bikes, is overly friendly and a gobby boy dog...