Author: mimbles

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It’s been one of those days

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It took me about an hour tonight to offload to Adam all my angst about today. Poor man. Work was busy but good, though I was 2 cups of coffee short by the time I was heading back to pick the kids up from school. This may have had a detrimental effect on the rest of my afternoon. The kids were fighting before we’d left the school grounds (Again. Have I mentioned their tendency to do this?) – can’t blame the lack of coffee for that – and things pretty much went downhill from there. We had homework angst, hyper … Continue reading It’s been one of those days

Family & Parenting, Keeping the Masses Entertained9 Comments

Laundry and laughter

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We often get the kids to help us deal with the mountain of clean laundry that accumulates over a week (it gets washed and dried pretty much daily but the folding and ironing is rather more erratic). Everybody comes downstairs and we chuck all the clothes on Adam’s and my bed and then spend 20 minutes yelling at the kids to stop throwing themselves on top of the pile and actually fold the bloody clothes. It’s a lot quicker than if one person has to stand there and slog their way through the whole pile themselves. Tonight, just as Adam … Continue reading Laundry and laughter

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First Born

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MPJ tagged me for this over on Facebook but because I’m bloody minded and stuck in my ways I’m doing it here rather than there (it shows up there anyway ’cause I have my blog feed updating Facebook). One for the mums – all about your first born. 1. WAS YOUR FIRST PREGNANCY PLANNED?Yes, well, in the sense that we stopped trying to avoid one – it happened a bit quicker than I’d anticipated though. 2. WERE YOU MARRIED AT THE TIME?Yep, for 4 years. 3. WHAT WERE YOUR REACTIONS?Happy 🙂 4. HOW OLD WERE YOU?25 5. HOW DID YOU … Continue reading First Born

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From my bookshelf & book club review

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It’s been a bit quiet on the reading front since my last bookshelf post. Once I finished the Egan and MZB I picked up Alastair Reynolds’ Pushing Ice which I had started ages ago but had put aside for no particular reason. It ended up coming away on our camping holiday with me and still lasted me through to early February. It kind of freaks me out when it takes me that long to finish a book, especially when I’m enjoying it (which I did, very satisfying grand scale sc-fi) – you know how some people stop eating when they’re … Continue reading From my bookshelf & book club review

Blog Link-ups and Memes, Family & Parenting, Food Glorious Food, Keeping the Masses Entertained, Things We Should Talk About at the Dinner Table12 Comments

Interview time

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I’ve been a little slow with this one! Back at the end of January Liz at Eternal Lizdom invited her readers to request an interview from her, which I duly did. Shortly afterwards, her questions arrived in my inbox and I opened a draft post, began to write, got stuck and it’s been sitting there ever since. Today I determined to finish – and here it is. This is one of those pass-it-on meme type things so if you want me to interview you, leave a comment and say “Interview me!” and I’ll send you 5 questions to answer. Liz … Continue reading Interview time

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I thought we didn’t do Valentine’s Day

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But apparently Adam does. He went out to take his mum to a doctor’s appointment at 7:45am and found himself outside the florist that he used to buy flowers at for me back when we were first going out. When he brought them home I was downstairs, Tom let Adam in the front door, said “I’ll take those to mum”, grabbed the roses and presented them to me as I dragged myself half-awake up the stairs. It was all very romantic 🙂 Then we spent the next 5 hours frantically cleaning the house up because we were having a whole … Continue reading I thought we didn’t do Valentine’s Day

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25

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Yep, it’s the Facebook 25 random things meme, I’ve been tagged often enough now that I figure it’s time to do it. I have one ear that sticks out further from my head than the other. When I was in my late teens a doctor suggested I might want to have surgery to “fix” it. I didn’t think it was broken, after all I can hear just fine with it thank you. When I was pregnant with David I really regretted calling the cat James. We may well have used the name for a child had it not been already … Continue reading 25

Gardens and Bushland8 Comments

Adrenalin nightcap

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Earlier this evening I was suddenly seized with a craving for serious chocolate. I had no luck with my attempt to send Adam on a mission to the Guylian Cafe before he came home so when he got here, after 11pm, I decided to head out to the supermarket myself. Look, I wouldn’t have gone if we hadn’t also been in dire need of sandwich meat and fruit so it’s not quite as bad as it sounds. My hunt for serious chocolate was a success, I now have a box of fancy Lindt morsels and they were even on sale. … Continue reading Adrenalin nightcap

Family & Parenting2 Comments

Chess

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It’s been a long, long time since I last played chess and I wasn’t particularly good at it back then, I figured I was doing well to remember the moves for each piece and how to set up the board. Dave and I both claimed that we had no idea what we were doing but I suspect he was trying to be kind to me, after all he has 6 months of chess club under his belt. I was doing so well right up to the point where I completely failed to notice my queen was under threat and David … Continue reading Chess