Author Archives: thepogblog
Purple hat Tuesday
Mum was an amazing knitter. She’s made countless thing over the years and I never once heard her say a pattern looked too hard. She made matching cable knit dresses for me and my sisters only a few years ago … Continue reading
Learning to chop onions – a step mums guide
Step Mumming is way harder than I ever anticipated. Not just the fact that not all step children may want you around and make that fact very known to you, but the balancing act of being useful but not treading … Continue reading
Woolgate Tuesday
I’ve been lucky: since the start of the year Mum has been in a good mood, or I’ve been able to manoeuvre her into one relatively quickly on my Tuesday visits. This week…well, things were not as good. We had … Continue reading
The Black Book Muddled Life Tip
I can remember the number plate of the mini metro that was our first family car. I can remember the address in America of my friend who moved their when we were 11 (including the zipcode) and I can remember … Continue reading
The chicken worked (!) Tuesday
You might not believe this, but…we had a huge success on Tuesday this week. Whilst shuffling around Tesco, I did my chicken impression for Mum accompanied by the usual ‘what am I?’ question and Mum shouted (while laughing) ‘Chicken! Stop!’ … Continue reading
A different Tuesday
I work online. Mr R mostly works online. Remote working. We thought it would be interesting to see how remote we could make working in the UK, so last Friday, we drove to Sennen Cove, which I think counts as … Continue reading
Double confusion Tuesday
What do you do when you are just getting the hang of managing your Mum that you (lovingly) describe as ‘mad as a box of frogs’ to anyone asking how she is? Well, you go to Tesco for a bit … Continue reading
Don’t ever assume…A story of a cat and a dog
I had hoped that Norman Cat (13 going on 14) and Percy (Working Cocker, 3) would one day be friends. I had assumed any issues they had would probably be caused by Percy. Three years later I totally concede that … Continue reading
Parental daftness Tuesday
Tuesday this week was a little different in that my parents seem to have taken over in the daftness stakes and these were things that needed to be addressed… Mum and I went to Tesco. Mum had a panic that … Continue reading
The cold elbow solution
Do you have a recurring dream or nightmare? Mine have changed over the years. First it was the owl pecking out the back window of a car I was being driven in through a forest. (I was really young then) … Continue reading
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