‘Zip It!’ A popular expression in our house. Normally employed for smaller human beings who are gobbing off beyond a reasonable level. But the recent horror of Charlie Hebdo has left me and many other parents that I know, wondering if we now need to be uttering this phrase a bit more at the kids. […]
Laugh and Be Liberated
You don’t need me to quote a whole load of stats and studies at you in relation to how laughter can be an exceptionally healing medium. For years I’ve been saying that the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon books should be made free on the NHS to all and sundry. Far cheaper for the state for […]
Homework, Irony and the BBC…
MALE OFFSPRING: Arrrghhh! I can’t do this! I HATE this! I HATE it! ME: Oh for…..(stopping myself)…it’s just homework! The sooner you get it done – the better. MALE OFFSPRING: That’s alright for you to say! You said you never had nowt given you as homework when you were a kid. But I’m just 6! […]
Neanderthal Nativity
Back in the 70’s me and my big bro’ never participated in all of that nativity biblical re-enactment stuff. This could explain a lot of things for me and mine. Like the fact that as a small child I hated those new-fangled advent calendars that came with crappy choccies behind their little doors. The ones […]
All Shook Up In’th Shops (part 1)
Some readers of this blog will know that I don’t really do shopping. Well, high street shopping I mean. I hate the same blandness that 95% of the stores here in the UK represent these days. I despise the way that the big chains and the corporates assume that we’re a bunch of brainless, zombified […]
Don’t Be A Bird Brain
Followers will know that I like to blog about all kinds of stuff, but that I can become the gobbiest when it comes to the issue of ‘outsiders’. Yes, I get all crabby about those who are on the fringes of society (because of lack of income or birth right or connections) but I also […]
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