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Saturday May 25th 2013

‘Family’ Archives

The inner thigh gap

The inner thigh gap

My daughter and I were taking a long walk this morning (yep, I got over not talking to her) when the subject of the inner thigh gap came up. She tells me that guys are mad for it and there are facebook sites dedicated to the inner thigh gap. Who [...]

Happy Father’s Day

Happy Father’s Day

I was going to do one of those self congratulatory posts for my first back from my unplanned blogging bludge break. This is what I had in mind. Gorgeous filtered photos (I got an iPhone while I was gone). There were going to be glamour shots of a [...]

Wife chart. Where do you rate?

Wife chart.  Where do you rate?

Wife chart. Where do you rate? OK, are you a good wife? Well would be be a good wife in 1939. Check out the marital rating scale and see what sort of a wife you'd be if you were married to say Errol Flynn. Or someone really dapper from the [...]

Your domestic skills are wanting. So what?

Your domestic skills are wanting.  So what?

OK, can you make a Victoria sponge? I can but big deal. What good is it to me unless I'm auditioning for Masterchef? Anyway if you can't don't worry. For you are one of a growing breed. A breed that is young mothers--young mothers without domestic [...]

How not to get pregnant from a toilet seat

How not to get pregnant from a toilet seat

Ever been in a fancy place where they have those paper toilet seat protector things. More trouble than their worth I think. They give you a false sense of security or a reason to have 50 stress attacks while you wonder if the thing's still in [...]

Middle age is a blessing. Apparently.

Middle age is a blessing.  Apparently.

So here's some good news for all you Gen Xers who are shoving back hard against the term middle age. A clever man in the UK has written a book about middle age and all the good things that go with it (and if you're 40ish you're middle [...]

Friday laugh

Yay.  The end of another working week.  So here's an oldie but a goodie to give you a good laugh.  Glad I clean up before the cleaning lady comes around.

There’s a list of ugly baby names

There’s a list of ugly baby names

That Twitter is an amazing research device. Really we should just rid of all those people who do research for a job and just listen to Twitter. It's got its finger on the pulse of the world. (I just made that up but if anyone thinks it workable in [...]

Friday inspiration

Happy Friday everyone.  To set you up in the good mood you deserve to be in for the next three days check out this cute clip.  Normally I'm not a cat fan, but that could change.

Oui, oui madame

Oui, oui madame

Okay, my French could best be described as sucky. As I've mentioned before I'm really bad at it, but that doesn't stop me thinking that I can speak French when in France to real French people who have absolutely no idea what I'm talking about. It [...]

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