One of my Mum’s favourite sayings when someone did something nice was ‘he’s not a bad old stick afterall’. It always made me smile. I’ve now adopted it as my own!
Not a bad old stick
April 25, 2009
Jet-set Mum
March 30, 2009
As all of us grew up we all lived abroad for a while. One of my brothers spent 10 years in the States. Mum used to take visits out to see him on a regular basis. My brother was like all of us, a chocolate fanatic (Mum did her best to encourage this in all her children.) On [...]
Tin Foil lucky dip
March 9, 2009
I have a bit of a frozen food aversion. I put this down to growing up with the tin-foil-lucky-dip-organisation-system Mum ran for our freezer. Mum would freeze the end of meals ensuring that food wasn’t wasted. An admiral effort, the problem was Mum wrapped everything in tinfoil, resulting in a freezer full of misshapen tinfoil [...]
Pop goes Mum
February 26, 2009
We were all avid fans of Top of the Pops in our house, we’d watch it on a weekly basis and give our opinions as to which bands we liked and disliked. Mum used to come in and say ‘they’ll never take off’ and it would always be about some huge band that was all [...]
Recession Reality
February 25, 2009
I grew up in 1980s Ireland when ‘Recession’ was on everyone’s lips, it was certainly palatable in our family in the early part of that decade. My Dad lost his job and as a result the family income dried up fairly quickly. Mum was a nurse but had stopped working when she got married. She soon had to go [...]
