Category Archives: Parenting

Trigger Warning – Your daughter or mine?

The following post carries a < t.rigger_warning> for content. It also contains explicit images. If you self harm and / or think you might be vulnerable, please think carefully before scrolling through this post. I have spent the last 2 … Continue reading

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Silent Sunday

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Silent Sunday – We survived!

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Still here

Hello. I am still here. My finger-nails are not and there are lots of sore bits around the edges where they were but I am still here. I guess I realised that while I was on here, I was thinking … Continue reading

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Silent Sunday

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Create your own Sock Monster

When I saw that my sock post from last November had been viewed a few times this week, I suddenly remembered that I had promised to blog the actual sock L. and I made for the OnlyDads tree. L was … Continue reading

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Thank you

So on Saturday, I published my 100th post without realising it. It was only after hitting the button that the new happy-happy WordPress notification told me and it sort of blew my mind. When I started this back in November … Continue reading

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Bong …

We heard the church bells donging “Wedding here … This is a wedding!” while we having lunch today and the question came for the first time ever: “Mummy, when did you get wedding’d?” “Oh, Mummy’s never been ‘married’ Poppet” I … Continue reading

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Rekindled

For the last 2.5 weeks I have been lying flat on my back in my lounge. For the last 2 of those 2.5 weeks I have been a disobedient patient and, instead of doing “nothing,” I set up a makeshift … Continue reading

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Mutant Bavarian Mosquitos / No Child Out of Reach cntd

The new generation of Bavarian mosquito is small, stealth-like and nasty! They tend to leave me and go for L when he is asleep. He now has a high bed and the net doesn’t fit properly around the ladder. He … Continue reading

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