Category Archives: Pog Life

The unfatness plan….sorted?

I was looking for an old post on here the other day and stumbled on a huge number relating to various unfatness plans.  In the time I’ve been writing this blog I’ve done swimming, attempted pole dancing, failed miserably at … Continue reading

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Time to de-frazzle*

*I may have just made up that word.  But I like it :o) A few of you might have noticed from the blog (and couldn’t have failed to notice if you’ve been unfortunate enough to talk to me), that things … Continue reading

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The importance of engineers and friends

I’m ridiculously excited! (I should warn you at this point that this is coming from someone who’s been baking cookies for the cat – it doesn’t take much to excite me these days).  What has got me so excited?  Well, … Continue reading

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All sanity has left the building

Every day I think “this job can’t get any worse”.  And then it does.  The good news though, is that I am through the ‘crying hysterically about it’ phase, and have moved on to the ‘slightly manically laughing about it’ … Continue reading

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It’s the little things

In amongst the hospital visits and work of the last few weeks, my washing machine broke, followed swiftly by the heating in my conservatory. Now, that might not sound like a big deal, but I work from home two days … Continue reading

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Little Pea and me, and lots of water and mud

I had a Little Pea and Me day just as the holidays finished.  I should have known it wouldn’t go quite to plan when, the day before on a quick visit from Little Pea to Pog Towers, I decided we should make … Continue reading

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Christmas round up and some naughty finger puppets

Just before Christmas is completely over, I thought I’d do a quick Christmas roundup. I had a lovely Christmas Eve with Gorgeous Godson and his big brother.  We put out a drink for Father Christmas and a carrot for Rudolph … Continue reading

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Thank you balloons

When I was growing up, saying please and thank you was drummed into me.  As an adult, I find it REALLY irritating when people don’t remember their manners – I get very grumpy if people don’t say thank you when … Continue reading

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Is dancing the answer?

The last few weeks have been…well…tricky. I’ve started my new job which has been a long way from plain sailing, Mum has been poorly and there has been another typhoon in the Philippines.  I didn’t realise just how much I … Continue reading

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Pog Patterns

Do you remember that post where I showed you some of the instructions I’d sent to a friend so she could make her daughter a Pogimal?  The instructions were bad.  No, actually, they were terrible: So I was amazed when … Continue reading

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