Author Archives: thepogblog
Armchair experts and masks
There always have been and there always will be ‘experts’. I don’t mean actual experts – people with qualifications and knowledge about what they talk about, I mean the sort of ‘experts’ who saw a post that Mandy* off face … Continue reading
It’s a bit of a mix
Little Pea made banana bread and wrote it up in his diary: Mum and Dad have acquired an increasingly tame pheasant (possibly because of the quieter roads around them) which they are now feeding: And have Sister 2 taking part … Continue reading
I’m back. Because it’s all gone weird…
I mean, you know it’s gone weird. This is a global level of weirdness that even people living under stones would have noticed, because it’s all gone quiet and now we can hear the birds sing. I thought I’d start … Continue reading
Exit: The cookie monster
Shall I tell you a secret? You know the diploma I’m doing? I didn’t really think it through. You want to know how I ended up studying psychotherapy and hypnosis really, truly and honestly? I was reading a book. Not … Continue reading
Princess Pog and the (magical) tiara
The other day I mentioned in this post that Sister 1 had progressed the ‘lets embarrass our sister with weirdly addressed post’ competition, by sending me a parcel addressed to ‘Princess Pog’. We currently have a lovely decorator man here … Continue reading
Full Marks (#stepmumwins 2)
Himself eats pretty much anything I give him, his boys do not. I don’t think I even need the fingers on one hand to count the meals they will eat, and it’s a source of much frustration, especially as we … Continue reading
Note to self: Engage brain
I’ve never been great at remembering to engage my brain before speaking. Or at all, really. I think these conversations over the last day or so sum that up quite well: Himself: Isn’t that plant the weed we pulled out … Continue reading
Still Pogging it.
I don’t think I’ll ever learn. I’ve been internally congratulating myself recently that I’ve been being a bit of a grown up. I’ve done this before and been repaid with something slightly odd happening so I should have known. I … Continue reading
Our Towers progression
I’m rather loving transforming bits of Our Towers. Yesterday, it was the turn of a waterfall that I started off hating. Then we discovered it still worked. Then we discovered that actually the only water feature at the local pond … Continue reading
#stepmumwins
I’ve done some scary things in my time. My volunteer work in the Philippines was pretty scary. Learning to scuba dive (and throw up underwater as a result of the panic attacks it induced) was rather hairy and almost every … Continue reading
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