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5 Star Foodie Culinary Adventures : Spiced Rhubarb Pancakes

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:28:14 +0000

These look amazing! Love the idea of putting rhubarb in a pancake. And that it's so healthy.

TheMadHouse : Life

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:41:57 +0000

I can totally relate to the feelings you express here. So often I just keep going and don't know what I am doing or why! Then you stop one day and ask "why?" I love your image of the hamster wheel. Today was wet and dark and I just felt like staying in bed. It's half term after all! I also love the change in seasons but think I could do without the winter one. Take care lovely and hugs x

TheMadHouse : After a pretty pants weekend

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:42:03 +0000

Fingers are crossed for you lovely. Hope it all goes well xx

TheMadHouse : What do you do when your children are bright?

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:40:00 +0000

I hope it works out with the school. My feeling is it is hard for children who fall at either end of the spectrum - ie the top or the bottom. Keep pushing for what you feel is right. The only person who really cares about our children is us! Sounds like your school is supportive though which is half the battle. Always love seeing pics of your boys. They are so gorgeous :)

TheMadHouse : The Boys are away and I don\'t want to play ......

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:04:27 +0000

This is too weird. I am reading this as I sit in my eerily quiet house. My hubby has taken all the kids to his parents for the night and I am here alone. I didn't want to go as had a really busy week and thought the time alone would be nice. But now I feel lost without them all here. So I totally relate to what you are saying! I don't know who I would be without them. It's ok though as who I am with them is a really great person. And I am sure the same is of you. Being a mother is better than all the nights out, the clever conversation, the active social life etc. It's good to be reminded of that.

Sticky Fingers : The Gallery: A novel idea

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:54:49 +0000

Absolutely loved the Mosquito Coast. Forgot River Phoenix was in the movie. Great photo :)

London City Mum : What the eye sees... take three

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:07:28 +0000

God that's very very very funny! Just went and had a look at the pink shoes as well. The tandem twins are too much. You see them all the time?? Seriously why are these people allowed out. Keep them coming. My recent post Mint Chocolate Brr-ownies

TheMadHouse : The Gallery - Can you see What it is yet? - The Reveal

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:35:38 +0000

What a beautiful day to have gone to the London Eye! Looks amazing over the rippling, sun touched Thames.

TheMadHouse : CyberMummy 2010

Thu, 8 Jul 2010 22:05:23 +0000

You've put together a brilliant critique here Jen. Well done you for not being swept away by the sentiment of it all and actually saying something constructive. I didn't get anything out of the talks at ALL. Bitterly disappoint and how they didn't really seem to understand their market. The panel should have been composed of more mummy bloggers and less "names". Anyway, what was great as everyone else has said was meeting everyone. I had no idea how moving so many of the keynote speeches were going to be. I'd have worn waterproof mascara otherwise hee hee! Hx

Sleep is for the Weak : A Blogging Manifesto - thoughts on Cybermummy

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 22:28:43 +0000

Okay I had to laugh because it kept telling me my comment was too long so I had to split it in to three separate comments!! Sorry x

Sleep is for the Weak : A Blogging Manifesto - thoughts on Cybermummy

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 22:28:13 +0000

It doesn't replace the real world. Similarly I want to keep all my insecurities out of the blogging world. I want it to be about me as a person who isn't cynical, who can truly believe that good things can happen to good people. And that women together can be an amazing force. Anyway, if I've over done the comment then sorry. But powerful writing often illicits a powerful response. You are a wise woman for someone so young. I don't think I would have had the courage to stand up & say these things when I was your age. You obviously had a great day and it was a pleasure to experience it with you x

Sleep is for the Weak : A Blogging Manifesto - thoughts on Cybermummy

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 22:28:09 +0000

Like where's the bitching, the back stabbing, the fakeness....surely that's here somewhere. I wasn't paying any attention to twitter on the day but did notice some negative comments Sunday and Monday. First I thought, shit we better stop talking about it and then I though f*** it those people don't have to be on twitter. As you say they can turn it off and go and do something else. And that is in part what I love about blogging. That you can walk away. My life is incredibly full. I have four kids, great local friends and am really involved in my community. I don't have time to be on twitter all day & night or blog more than once a week (even that can be a struggle). I am really grateful for that because it means I can pull away when I want. And no one can track me down, or hassle me, or ask me for anything because I am not a part of their real world. I think what you've written is very important and I hope people will put aside all their jealousies, differences, dislikes, etc and just take the best bits from the community. Because what it has to offer is amazing as long as you take it for what it is.

Sleep is for the Weak : A Blogging Manifesto - thoughts on Cybermummy

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 22:27:33 +0000

This is probably going to be a long comment and that might be annoying but hey this post is about doing what you want right? After all you don't have to read it!! Thing is I have wanted to write a post about cybermummy and from a friendship persepctive. Because friendship is a complicated thing or it can be. I felt so many different things on Saturday and a lot of it relates back to my own experience in groups and with relating to people. Part of me embraced all of the things you describe but another more cyncical side thought this just can't be real. That saddened me and I felt down about my reactions in some way. It's like I can't believe groups of women can really be sincere in their support and affection for one another.

The Thought Bubble : Our Lost Year

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:07:16 +0000

Great post and sorry to hear about your "lost year". Your comment from your mum is so amazing! Sounds like you have great family support. What's important for Chipmunk is that you are better now and he has his mum back. What's lost is lost, now it's about what's here. Your son will only remember that. My recent post D’s Perfect Cake Balls

Sleep is for the Weak : Writing Workshop/Gallery: Joy

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:22:07 +0000

Great pic! And so glad you have been able to rework that poem and turn it into joy.

TheMadHouse : A Family of Emmotions

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:58:46 +0000

Oh I love your MacDad! What a perfect pic to demonstrate his mellowness. Anger is unproductive, he is so right, but yet it's there all the same for many of us. Also love the pic of Mini and the sentence "He feels them in his heart, head and fists." My not so little mini anymore was just the same. He's getting mellower but it's been a long time coming. Great post!

Sticky Fingers : The Gallery/Writing Workshop: Emotions

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:44:45 +0000

Great pic Tara. Grand parents are such an amazing part of our lives. Your post is a very good reminder of why.

TheMadHouse : The Gallery - Creatures of South Africa

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:54:57 +0000

Penguins are so cool! I would have spent hours looking at them too. So envious of you being able to do this trip. I would love to do it someday. Great photos.

TheMadHouse : Mini The early weeks

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:52:14 +0000

What an incredible story! It's great to hear how things can work out when we trust our instincts. So glad he never had to have surgery. I will never tire of looking at pics of babies either. He looks suitably gorgeous!

http://mummylimited.blogspot.com/ : Motherhood

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:53:24 +0000

I love those last two paragraphs. We forget how motherhood makes us grow as individuals. How they are holding our hands - that's a lovely image. Your boy will be so full of your love when he is able to read this one day. Lovely x