You could be walking with Mum down a freshly swept path, not a bump to be seen when suddenly she would stumble over an unseen grove, followed by a rapid recovery and immediate dismissal of any falling event occurance. Mum was a daily tripper if ever there was one. Now, she would vehemently deny this saying [...]
Daily Tripper
April 27, 2009
Not a bad old stick
April 25, 2009
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!
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 [...]
Clothes Rage
March 4, 2009
Mum and I were great shoppers, taking any given opportunity to trawl through the shops together. However I have to admit suffering serious clothes-rage with Mum. I would nip into a changing room to try something on. Looking for Mum’s input I would tentatively poke my head out of the dressing room, at which stage I’d realise [...]
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 [...]
