21st Century Fanny Craddock

Yep, it’s the school Cake Sale today and here’s our contribution – 18 high calorie garish globs finished with butter icing and sweets – yum. They’ll disappear in a minute. I’ve taken the traditional fairy cakes recipe and created these anarchic little treats in the style of gonzo cooking. Check the Gonzo cooking pages if you dare…

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Back at dole-drum towers…

As I sat down to enjoy my beautifully prepared lunch yesterday, things took a drastic about turn. My cosy domestic bubble burst in the manner of a very large party balloon being pricked by a very large, sharp pin. My mobile phone trilled, !NUMBER WITHHELD! flashed on the screen – Ok, better put my professional/together [...]

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Hitting the refresh button on my reality check page – no worky = no money

I’ve hit the wall – like Simon Pegg in Run Fat Boy Run – and I’m wondering if now’s the time to find a different way to make a living…answers on a postcard please!

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it gets better, Jude Law plays trannie ‘Minx’ – let’s all send him man bras…

Maybe I’ve just got this all wrong, wrong, wrong and it’s instant Karma – Jude Law is playing the Minx is in new film Rage… He even looks a bit like me – the shame!

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I’ve been a bad, bad, Minx but who needs a Man Bra?

Ooh la la, Valentine’s Day gets us all hot under the collar and seemingly minxy on the blogs but it’s got me in trouble with a big T. I very innocently signed up for Web Mums – a very well profiled ning site for Mums who want to work from home – WOWEE! I was [...]

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Walking in a Winter wonderland…

It was so peaceful, so bright, so wonderful, so snowy. ‘Mummy! It’s Winter Magic!’ cried Miniminx as she looked outside, we both felt like we’d woken up in Narnia!

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Thank heaven’s for rain…

It must be a sign of age, but I could hardly move yesterday after my night on the town. The heady combination of being out, red wine, loud music, high heels and dancing, is just too much of an assault on my senses to have no lasting effect. I spent most of the day lying down in a darkened room and laughing occasionally as I gradually pulled together my evening’s highlights.

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Its’ Sextucation Month at School

So Lesson 1 in Sexducation has been a source of much amusement in our household this week. I know, I know, sex shouldn’t be a laughing matter but if you put 30 eight your olds in a class room and give them pictures of a naked male and female and ask them to label parts of the body, it’s going to be a recipe for hilarity.

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Life is just one long weekend…

All in all, it’s been a pretty good week so far – I’m over the moon to be listed on Alpha Mummy – and I’m really looking forward to a fantastic weekend which won’t really end until Tuesday. Three birthday parties and my own belated birthday present – a trip to see a show. One [...]

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Gossip Girls: My Mum’s out of work and going to rehab?? I said NO, NO, NO

Miniminx and I have both got cricked necks from too much Wii Fit and sleeping at funny angles – oh ha ha not. I’ve learned the true meaning of a pain in the neck. Oh yes, kids do say the funniest things don’t they. My reputation is in tatters thanks to Miniminx and her salacious gossip…

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