Category Archives: family
The chaotic cooking Tuesday
Tuesday stats: Tesco: Mostly successful, although someone with a very full trolley beat us to the ‘nice’ cashier so we ended up with a man. Luckily Mum approved of him. Celebratory ‘we did the shopping’ cake choice: Belgium bun (did … Continue reading
The art of distraction tuesday
Tuesday stats: Tesco: Successful, no crying and we got the ‘nice’ cashier Celebratory ‘we did the shopping’ cake choice: cinnamon bun Cooked: Fish pie x 2 (one for dinner, one for the freezer) Kitchen music listened to: Simon and Garfunkel … Continue reading
Muddled Life Practical Tip – Hospice support
It’s funny, isn’t it, how you don’t see things that are right in front of you? My Dad was diagnosed with COPD years ago. I have no idea how many years as breathing issues have always been part of Dad. … Continue reading
The start of The Tuesday Blanket Tuesday
‘Hmmm. You’re rather twisted aren’t you?’ ‘I am?’ ‘You are.’ And that’s how the conversation started as I stepped into the room where I had an accidental massage this Tuesday. My sister (a beautician) was giving mum a facial at … Continue reading
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 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
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
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
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