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N N N N N Nineteen
The Rose turned 19 last week. It was a far less traumatic affair than her 18th but amazing for a number of reasons. It started out with a hankering to …
Where’ve you been?
We got lost this year. All of us. The Rose turned 18 and the whole family went through a huge (unrelated) crisis just afterwards. No one died. No one was …
You gotta fight, for your right, to paaar – tay
In four weeks The Rose turns 18. I won’t be the first – or last Mum, to question where the time has gone, shed a tear for the baby years …
Music to our ears
The Rose feels other’s pain and tears very deeply and as my re-blogged article last week showed – being overly empathetic means it’s impossible to filter out the important stuff …
Joyful & Triumphant
I haven’t posted for a while. The Rose was so sad about breaking up with The Boyfriend in early December and I was so busy with Christmas sparkling that it …
Bus Pass
So despite the fact we now have a woman in our house, life in many ways, is just the same. She is still organised, meticulous and a lover of obsessive …
…and so we’re back
… ‘From outer space’ – as Gloria Gaynor famously warbled; and that description may be metaphorically true in many circumstances, but in this case – we just went on holiday. I …
The Aupair
The Rose has been away baby sitting for two weeks during this summer holiday. She went to my home town near Wales and stayed with my sister and brother in law to look …
You Got A Friend
Friends! They are the Holy Grail for most of us, whatever the scale of our social dys/function. The mates who make you laugh till you cry. The ones who make you …
I’m in here
We always thought The Rose was ‘individual’ but that something, sometime soon would just click and then the onslaught of party invitations and handsome suitors would roll in. But the heads -up that …
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