In my late teenage years, I suffered from horrible bouts of insomnia. I don’t just mean the odd night, where I couldn’t get to sleep – I mean days if not months, of little to no sleep. How I managed to scrape through my GCSEs in those day, is beyond my knowledge and insomnia has [...]
Saturday Is “Death To The Tech” Caption Day
May 18, 2013 by · 12 Comments
I’ve been saying to myself for a while, that I would love a new laptop. It’s true. This one has seen better days. The keys keep falling off, the screen is cracked in one corner, the mouse pad works only when it wants to and it is scratched to death. That and the appallingly [...]
Surviving And Proud Of It!
May 15, 2013 by · 4 Comments
You could say that I’ve been busy this week. It would be a complete understatement but unlike some of my past experiences, this busying about is for good reasons. Firstly – my other half has got a job! I know right? We have been waiting for this opportunity to pop along for months and now [...]
Saturday Is “With A Shovel!” Caption Day
May 11, 2013 by · 9 Comments
On our last sunny day, before the rain began to fall and the winds set about bellowing at the door-frames, we managed to snatch some much needed time in the garden. The twins were finally introduced to our battered little sandpit, which after nearly two years of being thrown around the yard by the wind, [...]
Musings On A Future School Boy
May 10, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
Time – it passes in the blink of a slowly ageing eye. Seasons change, the world whizzes by and before long those delicate little children, that you wished could communicate with you in a language you could understand, are on the verge of leaving the trials of toddler-hood behind. On the horizon is a future of school, [...]
On Feeling Invisible
May 9, 2013 by · 14 Comments
The alarm clock sounds a startled beep. The kind of beep that makes your whole body jump and jerk awake – alert to the alarm – what’s going on? Where am I? What time is it? A snore from beside me, shakes off the fleeting shadow of dreams half remembered, noting the number ‘four’ and [...]
Walkers Hoops and Crosses: Review
May 7, 2013 by · 2 Comments
When it comes to crisps, I’m not really a huge eater of them. I may have the odd packet now and then but to be honest, they’re a wasted snack on me. They get stuck in your teeth, stab you in the gums and if you’re the unlucky person who loves salt and vinegar flavour, [...]
The Odder Blogger
May 5, 2013 by · 14 Comments
With the laptop open on my knees, I sit and watch the buzz and whirl of pixelated chitter chatter – electric noise for the social-starved brain. Icons of half-familiar faces, flicker down the screen to be followed by more of the same, in the blink of an eye that barely registers the signals from its [...]
Saturday Is Twin Babble Caption Day
May 4, 2013 by · 23 Comments
If you’re a follower of Five’s A Fellowship’s Facebook page, then you might have noticed that I gave you all a preview of my spur-of-the-moment video. It involved twins, the back garden and lots of ineligible twin babble. I like to think of it as their space language because firstly, it suspiciously resembles Clingon and secondly because [...]
