Hamsters

There just aren’t enough hours in the day to use valuable time to do things like plucking my eyebrows. I rarely look closely in the mirror anymore, I don’t know if thats because I know I won’t like what I see if I do or if it’s because I just don’t have enough [...]

Apologies to all

Many, many, many apologies to all who leave comments here but not on the front page, quite simply,I haven’t been receiving notification of your comments and therefore have not responded to you.
I just managed to access one of my old forwarding email accounts and discovered a lot of your comments I haven’t even known [...]

Proud and Prejudiced

Goooooodness. As if there hasn’t been enough disappointment this week. I just watched the most overated version of Pride and Prejudice ever….this one.
For me it held none of the suspense I had anticipated and contained no undercurrent of passion between the two lead characters and I was almost bereft that the men, with [...]

The Brown Scapular

Y’know how I’m always moaning that I can’t find things? Well, I just discovered the unopened blessed scapular that I purchased while on Pilgrimage to Walsingham, back in May!
I used to wear the green scapular all the time, but haven’t for a while and felt quite compelled to buy this brown one when I [...]

Call the engines

Really upset tonight. This evening there was an immensity of ants pouring out from behind the fireplace and I sprayed some stuff on them and even though the fire was OFF, the butane propellant in the can made the whole firplace catch fire…we had the emergency services at the house, the fire engine, [...]

The Famous Five Meme

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The Book Meme

March Hare recently invited me to complete this meme,so here goes!

1.) One book that changed your life:I’d say the Bible but that goes without sayingso I’ll say it had to be,’The Enchanted Wood’.

It made reading fun for me for the very first time as faras I recall. I remembner spending hours of my childhoodsitting [...]

Union of Catholic Mothers

As you may be aware, the Union of Catholic Mothers at our parish (for the purposes of UCM talk we call it our ‘foundation’) has just kicked off this past Wednesday evening. We had a surprisingly good turn out and we expect a lot more interest too.
Some of you are already aware of [...]

Love at first sight

Building relationships on Scriptural principles, is it possible? I don’t doubt that it is.
Here’s an interesting site that explores such concept’s as ‘love at first sight’ ;
“Do you believe in love at first sight? I don’t, and if you don’t mind sticking around a while, I’ll tell you why”
I really like some of Benjamin Devey’s [...]

Happy Birthday Wonderboy!

I promised you all a picture of Wonderboy when he celebrated his 11th Birthday recently, here ya go! I need to explain the ‘cow biscuits’…. Wonderboy used to love ‘em when he was really small, so Grandma thought it would be a good idea to play a trick on joe and she wrapped a [...]

AntiFashinonistaSister

I don’t know about you, but I’m no dedicated follower of fashion. I’ve never been one to wear what’s ‘in fashion’. Over the years I’ve learned to focus on what suits me and not what will make me look ‘hip’ and ‘with it’.
I don’t dress to impress … I dress to express.
Usually [...]

Union of Catholic Mothers

I thought I’d put up this picture of Padarn Lake, Wales because it’s calming and brings back great memories. I’m frazzeled, it’s 12:40am and I just finished typing up a word document to send to Fr.
We had our first Foundation meeting last night of the Sacred Heart Union of Catholic Mothers and Fr. elected [...]

Holiday Blues?

DD has gone on holiday for a further two weeks, she left on Monday afternoon (leaving me a note to open every 4th night that she and I are apart -sweet or what!) this time with her grandparents. Might sound good but when you’ve got more than one child it isn’t necessarily. It [...]

Down the crapper

It’s 1:45 am and I can’t sleep. I’ve made myself a drink of lukewarm milk to try to settle me, but it tastes acky and I don’t think it’s going to work somehow. I don’t own a microwave anymore (yet another electrical appliance that packed in working – 1 day after the guarantee [...]

The Assumption of Our Lady

The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A Holy Day of obligation in England and Wales.

Consecration to Mary

My Queen and my Mother, I give myself entirely to you; and to show my devotion to you, I consecrate to you this day my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, my [...]

Discernment for a spouse

In view of my blogpost below here’s something I discovered online that is similarly of interest to we singletons! These questions are taken from the book “The Exclamation: The Wise Choice of a Spouse for Catholic Marriage”, by Patricia A. Wrona. They certianly have given me something to think about in discerning a relationship…
Questions [...]

What personality type are you?

By way of Jean

He’s Just Not that into you!

While perusing the charity (thrift) shops of Wales, in search of decent second hand books of interest, I came upon one that I had been curious to read for quite some time.
During the holiday I managed to read two books from cover to cover, something I rarely get the chance to do….or rather, something I [...]

The Angel of Music

I thought the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice was my all time favourite drama…well, it is, but here’s a close second…The Phantom of the Opera. I bought this dvd a little while ago and have watched it twice already. It is just fantastic. I must go and see this at some [...]

PopTart Mom Meme

Hi folks! I had intended to resume light blogging yesterday but after the ntl guy left after fixing up my digibox and telephone I sat down with DD to flick through our basic channel package and our TV which has been just about hanging on to its electrical life force for the past few months, [...]

Home again.

DD and DS on a fairground ride on the penultimate day of our vacation

I’m home! It’s 10 pm and I’m still wading through piles of laundry but I couldn’t help but pop in here and say hello :-)
I only got back late this afternoon and I have to say that these past 18 days [...]