Saturday is Caption Day!
I could come up with some funny captions for this, but I want to know what you think! Then I need you to go have a look at some more! Click the pic below to go to Mammasaurus blog:
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Wot So Funee? Spelling is….
This week Wot So Funee? is all about spelling in the Actually Mummy household; specifically, the differences in ability between me and the Bug at our different stages of the literacy journey. It is also Mummy’s first attempt at a Vlog, which is quite funny in itself! Spot the edits 😉 Now Mummy tells me that I was equally as bad at putting together words when I was the Bug’s age, but I find that difficult to believe, don’t you? Now go ahead and link up your own #funee posts with the linky tool below. Then go visit the other …
Gary Barlow Followed Me On Twitter!
I was sorry to hear Nickie at Typecast’s news last week that Keith Chegwin blocked her on Twitter, and I have subsequently begun a study of celebrity tweeting to see just how interesting I am to the wider, non-blogging world. Think of it as a kind of experiment. The challenge I have set myself is to gain me a celebrity follower! I should just make one thing clear. Gary Barlow did not actually follow me on Twitter. But I did follow him last night, and so did 210,809 other people, which got me thinking about digital marketing. Within 2 minutes …
Saturday is Caption Day!
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Just Get Him a Puppy! Dear So and So…
The puppy discussions have reached epic proportions in the Actually Mummy household this week, so I have decided to wade in and complete the trilogy of Dear So and So letters…. Dear Bug….. Do not worry. Mummy has promised not to get you a Coral Snake, therefore it will not bite your puppy and he will not run inside and hide. Coral snakes are poisonous and will actually kill your puppy. What you want is a Milk Snake – they’re fine….Always here to help, your very intelligent sister x Dear Rhino…. Do you realise what you have done by bringing …
Wot So Funee? Week 2
I’m going to swear today. Look away now if you don’t want to see, because I am going to use an actual square-word. You see, the naughtiest boy in my class said the F-word last week. I told Mummy and she put on her ‘I’m not cross, just really concerned’ face. I couldn’t repeat it, it was so bad, so she asked me to spell it. ‘F-A-R-T’ I guiltily whispered. She laughed – again! She also laughed when the Bug swore. Not quite 2 years old, and well into his puzzles, he was in the middle of completing a Thomas …
How to Own a Colour
Mummy bought a colour today. She is now the proud owner of Blazing Autumn, courtesy of Own a colour , an initiative supporting children’s charity Unicef. I helped her pick it out. I begged for Flamingo Pink, Party Pink, or even Sugar Plum, but she was having none of it. Mummy wanted Blazing Autumn. This picture is the reason why. M&D’s wedding took place in November, not because it was the only date left and they couldn’t wait, but because this cloak had been on her mind since she was a little girl. The church and its Boston Ivy would …
Should I Support Ipswich or Chelsea?
I don’t know if any of you are football fans, but a subject which often comes up in our house is which team the Bug and me should support. Daddy’s home team is Ipswich, but since these days we live a lot closer to Chelsea and Arsenal (and because, let’s face it Ipswich are rubbish) Mummy argues that we could get more out of supporting a premiership team that actually has a chance of winning something 😉 This debate gets quite heated when other adults are involved. (Whoever said it is possible to have a grown-up argument has quite clearly …
Saturday is Caption Day! #SatCap
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I Want a Puppy – Dear So and So…
Last week Mummy wrote about not getting a puppy. It is now the Bug’s turn to respond: Dear Teacher…I want a puppy. We need to work on Mummy. You made a good start by giving me ‘Star of the Week.’ She is beginning to soften. If you could just fix it so I get a Headteacher’s certificate soon I think we might be in with a chance. Yours conspiratorially, The one who sits very still at circle time. Dear Little Rhino….Thanks for having my back with Mummy. Remember to drive that nail in a little more every time you see …
Wot So Funee? Week 1
Welcome to my first post where you get to see what I actually write, as opposed to what Mummy helps me with. This one has been on the blog before, in the early days, and provoked such an outpouring of awwww’s and lol’s that I thought I should show it today. It is my very first shopping list, of things I wanted to buy (and do) for Mother’s day: Perfectly legible, and split into helpful sections so everyone knows what they have to do. And I remembered the shampain. So why, after all the gifts and loveliness I showered on …
What? Wednesday! #W?W!
This week the Actually Mummy clan went to a christening. Mummy sneaked in a few pictures! Where have you been #W?W! advertising this week? Let’s see over at Mammasaurus!
The Photo Gallery: Home
This week’s Gallery theme from Sticky Fingers is Home. I thought very hard whilst I was at school about what home meant to me. I thought about Mummy and Daddy and the Bug, but they are camera-shy. I thought about our house, but it’s a bit dull and ordinary. I thought about my bedroom, with all it’s pink fluffy stuff. I even thought about being a bit metamorphical and posting a picture of my best friends. When I got home from school I did what I always do. Then I knew what home means to me: Home
Love New Blogs Loves Actually Mummy!!
Whoop whoop! I won an award! The other bloggers like me! Yipeeeeeeee! (Might just have to do a celebratory tap dance later). Thanks Love New Blogs bloggers for voting me ‘it’ this week. I promise to make Mummy read every single one of your entries this week, and vote, so that you too can experience the thrill!!!! Laters. Gotta go to school now……….
Saturday is Caption Day #SatCap
Okay folks, I need a caption for this, and I dare you to have a go without hurting my feelings. I take my tap very seriously, you know 🙂 Join in with the fun over at Mammasaurus today!
On not getting a puppy: Why show and tell is dangerous
Mummy doesn’t get out on this blog much, as it is MINE! But allow me to indulge her today and read what she has to say for a change. Pleaaase? Dear The Bug’s Teacher….. We.Are.Not.Getting.A. Puppy. End of. Don’t believe him when he says it is really cute, and that he will be bringing it in for ‘show and tell’ soon, because it does not exist. Love, Mrs Bugged. Dear Schoolmums….. We.Are.Not.Getting.A.Puppy. You can stop texting me now asking when you and your children can come and visit our new puppy. It does not exist. Love, the harrassed one on …
Cava – Mummy’s Guilty Pleasure
This, as the Bug has christened it, is popping wine. Mummy calls it Cava, Prosecco, or on rare occasions Champagne. Not sure why, I mean it’s basically fizzy wine, isn’t it? Mummy will often share a bottle of wine with Daddy, or a friend. Cava, I have observed, is not for sharing. It is Mummy’s. And it is through close scrutiny that I have learned this fact: when something is not to be shared, it should be consumed as quickly as possible. Mummy recently drank a lot of Cava on a tour of the vineyards of Catalunya. That evening I …
Why parents not only can, but should take their kids to the Catalunya Vineyards
As I climbed out of the air-conditioned car the heat walloped me in the face and my eyes screwed tight against the sun’s glare over the vines. I reluctantly handed over my games console and prepared for the boredom to kick in. Our holiday in Catalunya was underway, but as far as I was concerned it wouldn’t begin until we got to our campsite on the Costa Brava, so for now I was planning to be a grumpy 6-going-on-13-year-old. Catalunya vineyards Champage it is not! (Legally anyway) We had visited the Codorniu vineyards and wine cellars at Sant Sadurni …