I love people-watching. Correction, I used to love people-watching. Before I had a toddler. Now I daren't take my eyes off him for a second incase he accidentally causes some formidable catastrophe by way of his ever-jiggling arms/legs/feet. Airports are the best places ever for people-watching. Mr B and I spent two years commuting weekly between Cardiff and Dublin so we spent a lot of time doing this. While waiting for our normally delayed Aer-Arann twin-prop we would often pass the time looking around at our fellow passengers and trying to guess what they did, or where they might be ...
J is for…well you’ll never believe me.
So, this blogging challenge is beginning to take its toll. I have been racking my brains all day to come up with ANYTHING beginning with J. Well anything other than jbmumofone as you must know all there is to know about the me by now. I was actually so desperate for inspiration I began browsing the Collins English Dictionary and, blimey, it was the best fun I have had in ages. Some words are just so cool. I will be saving some up for later in the challenge but here are my top three J's that I now don't know how I have possibly survived so long without knowing. Jack-by-the-hedge: ...
I is for Inquisitive
Overheard: At the Grandparents Child: Mammy what is this? Mum: It's a bacon sandwich. Child: No what is this? *Points to bacon*. Mum: It's bacon. Child: Mammy who made it? Mum: Granny made your sandwich. Child: No Mammy who made the bacon? Mum: A piggy. Child: Mammy who made the piggy? Mum: Another piggy. Child: But who made that piggy? Mum: Piggies make baby piggies, who make other piggies and then we eat them. *DEAFENING silence as we all wait to see where this is going to go next.* Child: Oh. *Eats sandwich*. Related Mum of One posts that you ...
H is for Hilarious!
Ok, so this is kind of cheating as I am going to point you to hilarious stuff that other people have written, but I figure that is in keeping with the spirit of the blogging from A-Z challenge. It is all about finding great new blogs right? Here are five posts that I have recently read that not only made me laugh on reading, but also later when I would randomly recall them at work, unprofessional, in the supermarket, embarrassing, in the middle of the night, does not aid insomnia. But I promise, they are worth it. They are just brilliant. Q and A with Harriet Spinster from ...
E is for “Encrypted Search Term”
Just recently this here blog has begun to scare me a little. On an almost daily basis now someone finds el blog via an "encrypted search term". WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? I have NO idea, but it scares the bejaysus out of me me a little. Are the government spying on me? Have I randomly written some tenacious phrase that has sent alarm bells ringing in GCHQ? Am I now one of MI5's most watched? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? On reflection, I am pretty sure it is none of the above and actually down to some nerdy computer-speak that I am thus-far unaware of. However, some people have come ...
D is for devotion
W and I are visiting the grandparents this week as my sister and her family are over from Canada for Easter. To say that they are a little bit excited to have their three grandsons, all together, in their house for the week would be a slight understatement. Though perhaps they won't be quite as excited come the end of the week. The excitement does not end with them though. Apart from having some wonderful time with my beautiful nephews, a stay with the grandparents generally also means: A few lie-ins. It is a known fact that Grannys like to do breakfast. Babysitters ...