Things their mother said…
“Please can I leave the table?” “Well you can’t take it with you” I was about eleven when I finally got what this meant!
“I love you with all my heart, well, most of it”
We’re into week three of the summer holidays (though someone clearly forgot to inform the sun) We’ve had a couple of fall outs, a LOT of chattering, a close escape, a fair bit of foot stamping and declarations of inhumanity,…
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves”
I ONLY FLIPPING DID IT!!! Seriously, I did it. It took 6 hours 20 minutes, (EDIT Rory’s fancy watch tells us we did it in just over 5 hours!) one almost panic attack, one cry, one toilet break, a banana,…
Off up a mountain, BRB
After a lengthy trip from North Yorkshire we have arrived in Wales! From the minute we crossed the border I’ve pointed to pretty much every hill and said to Rory “Is that it?” None of them have been it yet…
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures”
We’re two days into the school holidays and I’m actually quite looking forward to climbing that mountain at the weekend just for a bit of bloody peace!
“All that glitters is not gold”
As I’ve mentioned, more than once, I was never going to have children. Ever. I was far too selfish, I liked life as it was and there was a whole host of things related to babies/children that I just knew…
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