Surrey Mum

HANG ON, THE RAIN'S STOPPED. IT MUST BE EXAM TIME!

May 19th 2012

It is amazing how much more exciting and thoroughly lived our lives are when seen through the prism of a French Oral. We have acquired a couple of fictional new family members – 'le lapin', Floppy and 'le chien', Snoopy. After all, more words means more marks...

WHEN YOUR BABY GROWS UP...

May 10th 2012

I didn’t know what to worry about the most. That she’d be kidnapped and sold into slavery, that she’d poison herself on half cooked boil in the bag rice or that she’d get lost in the woods between Shamley Green and Peaslake, never to be seen again.

WHEN YOUR BABY GROWS UP...

May 10th 2012

I didn’t know what to worry about the most. That she’d be kidnapped and sold into slavery, that she’d poison herself on half cooked boil in the bag rice or that she’d get lost in the woods between Shamley Green and Peaslake, never to be seen again.

HELP! THERE'S A DAUGHTER IN THE OFFICE!

May 5th 2012

She now seems to have an insight into what her father does. I haven’t known for years. And it does seem to involve more than sitting at a desk and sending emails all day...

WHEN YOUR CHILD'S ON FACEBOOK LATE AT NIGHT....

April 27th 2012

The clues were all there. Thank goodness Sherlock Holmes had Watson as his assistant and not me – my bungling over Operation Internet has been hopeless...

WILL THE SCHOOL HOLIDAY TO DO LIST EVER GET DONE?

April 20th 2012

And sure enough, as the holidays finish, I find the To Do List, all items resolutely unticked. I can only fall about laughing manically at my foolish optimism. I am truly like a dysfunctional Pavlov’s dog.

WHERE HAVE ALL THE MEN GONE?

March 31st 2012

The new phenomenon: nights out for women in big groups, women in small groups or women just out with one female friend. It was like a grown up version of an all girls school dining hall, only with better manicures and handbags....

MUMMY MEMORY

March 23rd 2012

it’s because our brains are all filled up with Mummy Stuff. You know, all those minute details, planning dinner, remembering who to pick up or take where each night, whose birthday’s coming up. There’s just no room for any more small stuff...

PACKED LUNCHES? BRING ON THE WAGON WHEELS!

March 16th 2012

His dream packed lunch would be a teeny tiny salami sandwich and a large bucket of Wagon Wheels. Ironically, their slogan is “You’ve got to grin to get it in.” Ain’t much grinnin’ going on around here, I can tell you...

WHAT? NO WI-FI?

March 11th 2012

I had booked a beautiful house in a remote village in the middle of Crete. It was as if I had announced we were going somewhere without vital life support. Anyone would have thought I had said there was going to be no food...