I have just sat down to try and put together some writing prompts for the week but then I thought, sod it. I think we better have a week off.
I’m typing from bed, as I seem to have caught some horrible flu bug (probably from the hospital I’m guessing – nothing like a stay on a children’s ward to expose you to lots of contagious nasties!) and in the last three days have managed to crawl out of bed for …

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Welcome back to the Writing Workshop link-up! At the bottom of this post you’ll find the widget to post the link to your workshop posts.
I’m so sorry this week has been a bit of a disaster but I thought I’d get a bare-bones workshop up just so you can at least share all your lovely posts that I know you’ve been busy working on.
As most of you know, Kai’s been in hospital with the awful Rota Virus and poor …

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Apologies to every one with a post ready for the Workshop but I’m going to have to postpone it till tomorrow.
So sorry – as most of you, I’m sure, saw on Twitter last night, Gastro has hit the George household for the first time. Kai is doing a astoundingly efficient job of demonstrating just how much sick one toddler can hold, and rapidly covering everything I own with, what my lovely friend the NDM , would describe on her Children’s …

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Welcome to Monday’s Writing Workshop prompts! Don’t forget you’ve got an extra day this week with our workshop now being held on a Thursday. Funnily enough though, even with the extra day, I still left it till the last minute. Hmm… how about you?
For any  newbies (and it’s never to late to join in), here’s how it works… I’m going to give you 5 writing/blogging prompts. Pick one, pick two, or do them all if you’re really keen – it’s …

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I have lived in the same town now for 23 years.
We moved here in the winter, just before my fifth birthday. A winter of snow, I remember, thick and deep, much like this one. It’s funny really that I should start and end my time here with snow.
For we are moving.
The little terrace house that Ant and I have made our first home is rapidly getting a little tight around the waist, our collective bulge as a family of three …

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You have all been so lovely the last few days. The comments on my post about the Health Visitor’s worries about Kai have been endlessly comforting and supporting and I am so grateful for you taking the time to respond so thoughtfully. Thank you.
I had a bit of bad day with it all yesterday. Actually, I had A LOT of a bad day. There were moments there were I could genuinely have opened the front door and run as fast …

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Welcome back to the Writing Workshop link-up! At the bottom of this post you’ll find the widget to post the link to your workshop posts. It’s my turn first though, of course.
I’ve chosen a mixture of prompts of number 2 and 3. This is what the voices in my head assume. I guess some of them maybe right, but not as many as I think. I struggle with self-doubt like you wouldn’t believe. It pulls at me, twists me, undermines …

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I needed a bit of cheering up tonight, and, as always, my very fabulicious husband has stepped up to the plate. Following my rather pathetic attempt at beating Heather’s Marshmallow Challenge, Ant decided to have a go himself.
Watch this competitive marshmallow-face-stuffing wannabees. Watch this and weep at your relative inadequacy…

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I’m not  a neurotic mother.
Ok, I’m a slightly neurotic mother but generally I think I have my head screwed on OK. If I’ve learnt one thing as a parent it’s that children tend to do things in their own time, in their own way and there’s not an awful lot you can do to change that.
I try not to worry about stuff. Or I try and worry an appropriate amount anyway.
But for a while now there have been some concerns …

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Take that Heather from Notes in Lapland (who’s challenge you HAVE to watch)
Let it never be said that I won’t humiliate myself in public for the sake of your entertainment…

Yes that’s right, I said YOU
Karin at Cafe Bebe
Kathryn at I Know I Need to Stop Talking
Resistance is futile….

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