Author Archives: Nic
In other news…
Aside from my dual victories of perfecting a John Wayne walk and single handedly using a week’s supply of loo roll for your average family of four in just 12 hours I have been involved in the following: Listing a whole load of stuff on Ebay making use of their 10p listing day. Some of …
Might be back later with more…
but if I’m not it’s because my need for these is so great I have retired to bed wrapped in towels and nappy cream, or I’m busy between the toilet and the shower. 🙁
CVs – what I do!
There is a company called Working Links who specialise in getting long term unemployed people back to work. The company I work for write competancy based CVs for Working Links clients. They also do private professional CVs too but it is mainly Working Links ones I have been doing. The clients fill out a fact …
Girls Stuff
You know I don’t have a sister, I’m not so close to my mother, I didn’t do great on the friends quota at school and throughout my working life I was mostly the manager working alongside blokes on my level with other women as ‘staff’. It is a very recent phenomena to me to have …
Nic – not just a Home Educating Parent
Ady allegedly worked from home today. This really involves him trying to do what I would do while I attempt to do his job in return, which today was a powerpoint presentation using the sort of language I was slating a couple of days ago ;-), although in justification at least all of the audience …
Things…
Could easily do a TMI post here about the state of my stomach, cramping and the soundtrack to my day being the flushing of the toilet, but I’ll spare you! 😉 Last night I got an email from the woman who joined me in running WAG for the end of last year. You may recall …
Out of sorts…
Is how I feel today. For no particular reason really though. I don’t feel 100% well but nothing I could put my finger on and I’ve just felt low level irritated by ‘things’ today with that pit of your stomach dread feeling without having any real explanation for it. I do now have a genuine …
Baaaa! Whoosh
Over to Chris and Julie’s today where we left Chris and Ady with the children and Julie and I went to the Chichester NCT nearly new sale together. We managed to be very ladylike about the fact we were both searching in the girls 3-4 years area for Maisie and Scarlett although as they have …
And not just any old muffin…
one of those healthy ones with carrots and bran and crap in which don’t even really deserve to be called muffins with all the chocolate chip if American or dripping with melted butter if English type loveliness it summons up. Someone should probably come and rescue me actually before I succumb utterly to housewifelyness and …
If the Daily Mail could have seen us!
Moments of testing today with the small people. Minor irritations all round really; I managed to get fired up about my insurance complaint again by a phonecall from the people who’s invoice hasn’t been paid – so I fired off a 3 page letter complaining and got that in the post, I ended up telling …
Blimey!
You Have a Choleric Temperament You are a person of great enthusiasm – easily excited by many things. Unsatisfied by the ordinary, you are reaching for an epic, extraordinary life. You want the best. The best life. The best love. The best reputation. You posses a sharp and keen intellect. Your mind is your primary …
So he flipped it and he flopped it…
and she stayed awake all the way home! We’ve been to the House Of Ros today 🙂 Now Ros’ house is probably the most representative house of it’s owner I think I’ve ever been to. If you know Ros – and even if you only know her online – and you were in that old …
Tick follows tock follows tick…
Not a bad day certainly, but a wearing one. Which is sort of a relief as you know you need to pay back a good day like yesterday somehow ;-). Lucy came round first thing with Rebecca and Richard. Rebecca was not in the best of moods – they moved house yesterday so I think …
A woo hoo of a day! :-)
I had a lovely long lie in this morning until gone 9am, which I really needed after two crap nights and a disturbed night with Tarly last night too, so waking after enough sleep always puts a good spin on the day! 🙂 I then got washed, dried and put away every scrap of dirty …
And then later, when it gets dark, we go home…
Yesterday was exactly the Saturday a good doctor would have prescribed for me. I’d had a shit week, I’d had enough of being Mummy, enough of being broke and not nearly enough of being Nic. Yesterday I was more Nic than I’ve been in weeks and weeks and it was good! 🙂 And I am …
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Fair to middling
Better but in the immortal word of Catchphrase host Roy Walker ‘It’s good but it’s not right!’ Despite going to bed by 11pm last night I had one of those nights where your dreams are so vivid and exhausting that you are feeling more tired when you wake up than before you went to sleep. …
And Now…
the end is near and so I think I know the reason it has all become so clear it’s like the changing of the seasons as sure as night follows day as sure as my eyes have welled up with tears, I now know why I need my mooncup Tantrums, I’ve had a few Irrational …
Tantrums on a Thursday…
The day started well – Ady had a load of powerpoint type stuff to do for work so we worked on it together while the children played, then he made us lunch to take with us while I got the children dressed to go out and he stayed behind to tidy up the house before …
Wallace and Gromit and the new messiah…
Davies: (watching Wallace and Gromit) Wallace is the Big Were Rabbit really. He likes carrots and cheeses. Scarlett: I’ve got a book about cheeses! Runs off and returns with a My first Christmas Story board book. Scarlett: Look, there’s baby cheeses in the stable asleep!