1. What are your current obsessions?
My shed office and getting more shelves in a limited space than was ever thought possible
Supernatural - having missed most of it til now I'm enjoying my 60 episode marathon. And the Padalackles twins are just too CUTE for someone my age to fancy in all seriousness
2. Which item from your wardrobe do you wear most often?
Mummy jeans with several unidentifiable and possibly unhygienic stains on them that Vanish is powerless to erase
3. What was your favourite childhood meal?
"Full beans, half cheese" as served up by our school dinner ladies, searing hot and in a polystyrene cup. 50p a pop.
4. Last thing you bought?
Two enormous recycling tubs from Costco. Am absurdly happy that the local council has decided upon mixed recycling kerb collections. Am sad.
5. What are you listening to?
Captain Mack - the poor mother's Lazytown (but slightly less sanctimonious)
6. was the question I got rid of... check out Alphamummy's response instead...
7. Favourite holiday spots?
North Wales for proximity of child-caring grandparents, Sri Lanka for Bounty (chocolate, not kitchen roll) ad beaches and curry for breakfast, France for ability to communicate with natives and plonk. Gallons of plonk.
8. Reading right now?
My own website for spelling errors, spoilers for the next Supernatural episode, Ben Goldacre's really good column about the swine flu hysteria epidemic here
9. Four words to describe yourself.
Easily distracted...
10. Guilty pleasure?
Prosecco in the first half hour of This Morning (hey, my day starts at 5am and ends at 9pm... that's a post lunch drinkie!) Once in a blue moon you understand.
11. Who or what makes you laugh until you’re weak?
Billy Connolly, Eddie Izzard and, oddly, my personal trainer Dave.
12. Favourite spring thing to do?
Smell blossom - only flower that doesn't give me raging hay fever which is due in 5...4...3...2...
13. Planning to travel to next?
Barcelona with my husband for our first child free holiday lasting longer than one night. And my third night away from the kids since both of them were born.
14. Best thing you ate or drank lately?
A McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese (it's all sun-dried tomatoes and rocket round out way. Blee)
15. When did you last get tipsy?
Last night.
16. Favourite ever film?
Highlander
17. Care to share some wisdom?
Care, but not because it's about what others think of you
18. Song you can't get out of your head?
It was something something something in the 80s - it's a curse, you can't stop the internal jukebox until you sing the whole song word perfect and I can't remember the lyrics.
19. One thing you'd really like to do this year?Go to bed at a grown-up time and sleep uninterrupted until at least 6.30am with both breasts the sole property of me, myself and I
20. What or who makes you irrationally rage and totally not proud of yourself at the same time?
Well-meaning school gate mothers who serve a hundred committees and whose kids always seem to win the Easter Bonnet competition or get their photos on the 'Our Class in Action' wall and your gorgeous sprog is nowhere to be found...
Rules of the meme. Respond and rework. Answer questions on your own blog. Replace one question. Add one question. Tag some bloggy people. Here are mine:
Family friendly working
Single Parent Dad
Home Office Mum
Notes from inside my head
Over at Alphamummy, Jen Howze has answered a list of questions that are playing tag round the net. She has now 'tagged' me and charged me with answering the same questions, but taking one out and adding a new one of my own. While I think of a snazzy question and some terribly clever answers to the other ones, go over there and have a look. I'll be back soon with my version!
Mx
(oh yes, and an update on the shed - and the last 6 weeks which seem to have flown by with nary a blog update. BAD MUMPRENEUR, NAUGHTY MUMPRENEUR!)
You have no idea how close this is to the truth round here right now!
...of a sort. Did you see that a bishop was arrested - and allegedly roughed up - by police for sending his son up a chimney. This was no Dickensian throwback however. He put his son on his house's chimney (attached to a harness) to take part in a 'most unusual place to read a book' competition. I WANT HIM TO BE MY DAD!
He sounds GREAT! I can understand a passer-by being a bit concerned but come on, in this day and age of seriously lazy parenting and even lazier forms of abuse (eat what you like, play what you like, I'll do to you what I like...) what serious abuser is going to go to the effort of taking a kid and sticking them on a chimney stack!? Common sense, people!
From this moment on I want to see more kids up a ladder and crawling all over the eaves. I want to see 'em up telegraph poles, in trees (taller the better). Now, what did I do with that ladder...
The smalls are obsessed with balloons. Bending them, popping them, blowing them up (actually, just filling them with lots of spit before passing them across to me) and kicking them about. I'm hiding the news of this one from them. It's been hurtling round the world in space for the last 42 days, is called the 'pumpkin' and NASA sent it into space for a cool $1m. Crikey, can you imagine NASA's birthday party budget:
"No Mr Astronaut, you can't have more than 10 scientists at your birthday party. Putting a balloon in everyone's party bag is crippling me!"
The media has itself in a froth about schools in the South of England closing because of a gentle dusting of snow. Being from oop north myself, we'd sit in class, teeth chattering, frost forming on the inside of the windows begging for a snow day. One would be begrudgingly given if the snow topped five feet and the boiler packed up.
And yet I still don't begrudge the sissy sassenachs their snow (frost?) day. It happens rarely enough as it is and a sudden unexpected blast of good fortune is what makes childhood memorable. The children weren't in class learning about the Battle of Agincourt or how many fathoms in a farthingale or somesuch. However, they got important practical demonstrations of projectiles, the Battle of Hastings and pure, unadulterated, not-sponsored-by-Sony-or-Apple FUN! C'mon guys - the kids are alright!!
(and face it, we got a duvet day too, right?)
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