July 2012
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How do you mend a broken heart?
I think a cockapoo might be the answer.
It’s been sixteen months since that horrible night when we lost Steven.
It’s been quite a tough time for everyone. I think it’s fair to say that we relive the accident every day, and although we don’t always talk about it, it’s there in idle thoughts and sometimes my kids’ nightmares.
I’ve felt like the worst...
May 2011
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WHAT DO YOU WISH WOULD COME BACK INTO FASHION?
Scarlett fae River City. Now, SHE goes to the van in her slippers.
This is what I wish would come back into fashion. Mincing out for doorstep refreshments of a hot summer’s evening. The good old days when you could trundle out to the front in your baffies with an empty ginger bottle - and this wasn’t for the recycling bin but for THE VAN for a few refunded pence towards your feast. You’d get a...
April 2011
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Goodbye, SteveDog
Well, it’s been a strange couple of days here. Not many Bedtime Questions other than WHY?
I’ve finished eating a banana and just left the skin hanging in my hand as I’ve read the paper. No danger of a jumping puppy launching himself at it.
I’ve sorted laundry and it’s been left where it landed. No spaniel nest pulled and kicked together for an afternoon snooze.
...
February 2011
12 posts
HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT THE 'FACTS OF LIFE'?
I am having some very difficult conversations with my son at the moment. As I tweeted last night, he just comes out with queries like ‘Mum…. how do prostitutes find their customers?’.
He wasn’t asking in a giggly, pervy way, he was genuinely interested how the business was conducted. So I did what I always do with every question from ‘how many holes do girls...
WHAT'S BEEN AN INDICATOR YOU'RE GETTING OLD?
How did this happen?
My dad is 70 this summer and I just can’t get my head around it. It seems like just a moment ago he dropped me on my head doing the Lambada at his 50th. (That’s concussion for you.)
I have a son who’s not out of primary school but talks like Dizzee Rascal and says “NAAAAAAACE” when Nigella Lawson comes on telly. This makes me feel like an...
WHAT WAS YOUR MOST ROMANTIC MOMENT?
Bit late posting this, but not been in a romantic mood. *stares hard at Builder and gnashes wallies*
SO unromantic, in fact, I will simply list responses in case you are curious.
» Tracey_Cormack Tracey Cormack @ @lesleyjones My 23rd birthday. Boyf had 23 presents & a code I’d to work out before I got to open them. Presents. Dinner. Dancing. #sapfest » ...
WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE CAKE?
Brucie Bogtrotter fills his face in Matilda
No one ever quotes Marie Antionette correctly. She actually said “Let them eat cake… there are some Mini Cheddars in the cupboard I’ll trough instead.”
Some of us are never going to do the cake thing properly because our love of savouries is all consuming. I wasn’t brought up to do cake. Shortbread...
WHAT WAS YOUR MOST ECCENTRIC PET?
“That,” tweets @Almacdse1 “is a ridiculous question.”
Maybe so, but I don’t think I have ever owned a normal pet in my life. They’re all bloody nuts, animals, aren’t they? No wonder Barbara Woodhouse used to blow up their nostrils to say hello - she she was actually giving them skunk blowbacks in an attempt at sedation.
Me and my coccyx know from...
WHAT WAS YOUR MOST TRIUMPHANT MOMENT AT PRIMARY...
“I met moustachio’d swim hunk David Wilkie,” says @michlan, who goes first. “He talked to me at our sports day.” This IS David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer. But unfortunately, it’s NOT @michlan. I don’t think. Just pretend, ok? POSED BY MODELS hahahha
Well.
If you are halfway lucky in life, primary school will be your first realisation that the world can...
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE LOCKED IN A...
My innocent childhood fantasies have never left me. I would still kill to make a cup of tea in the back of a moving caravan or have a bath on a plane, Imperial Leather-style.
But the one experience I’ve craved more than any is to be trapped in a department store. What I would not give to wander gormless out the ladies’ at 6.01pm and realise that I’d been locked, alone, inside....
WHAT'S THE WEIRDEST THING YOU'VE EVER SEEN ON...
Behold the young warrior (above) who got aboard with @ZoeBrough. What a helmet! He also had “a pint of milk and a wireless” on his person.
If you ever feel a bit lost in life, get on a bus. I’m telling you, there’s no better affirmation that you are (comparatively) normal and sane than to survey your fellow passengers.
As I mentioned last night, the strangest thing I...
“There’s nothing in life that can’t be sorted by a good laugh and a...”
– me
Sunday Morning
Didn’t ask a Bedtime Question last night, as I was too busy asking them of my other half. Have you got clean pants? Travel insurance? Er… where are you going and who are you going with, exactly? It’s BST… Boys Snowboarding Time. Maybe best not ask too much.
October 2010
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