Miscellaneous

Wot so Funee?

I wrote a post recently about how parent’s birthdays are so much better now that we kids are involved. It must have been so boring just waking up late and going out to dinner before we came along. Anyway, I neglected to showcase the birthday greeting I wrote for Mummy, and she found it both touching and funee, although quite what there was to laugh about was beyond me at the time. Grown-ups! Expatriating! So here it is, the finest birthday greeting any Mummy could want from her child (apart from the early start, the squeals of delight, and the …

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Highs and Lows 2011

Having written a rather serious post yesterday, it is time for the light relief – the nurse to Juliet’s tragedy, if you like (that was Mummy, I haven’t yet started on Shakespeare, though I assume it is only a matter of time!) That nurse comes in the form of Reluctant Housedad, My Life My Son my Way, and Mother Wife Me, who have tagged us to write about the highs and lows of 2011, according to us. So as I sieze the microphone of celebrity, I will try to entertain you: 1. What was your happiest event? Well it’s a …

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Blaggers

Ok, ok, I know this one has been done to death, but a Twitter interaction last night has caused me some angst, and I want to do one last post, to set the record straight, to reassure some people, or just to dispel the attitude once and for all that bloggers who do regular product reviews are somehow the cockroaches of the blogging world. What are blaggers? A lot has been said about bloggers who approach PR’s for free product, in return for a review on their site. They have been labelled ‘blaggers.’ The Oxford Online Dictionary defines blagging as …

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Top 5 Photos of 2011

Over on Kate Takes 5 there is a Listography take on the year-end blog round-up post, and having seen in the New Year  for my first time ever last night (yes, I made it to midnight, and could have continued if M&D were not such lightweights) I am a little too tired to write much today. So here is my year in pictures: This took place in April in the beautiful bluebell woods of Ringshall. It is my top picture for a number of reasons, most notably that moments like this do not happen often between the Bug and me, …

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How to Celebrate New Years Eve with Kids

So. Here we are. New Years Eve. You have downgraded year-on-year from wild parties and Capital city fireworks, to champagne and canapes at home. You no longer celebrate with alpine ski breaks, and there was even one, dismal New Year that saw you force down half a bottle of champagne around 10pm and then collapse in bed, awaiting the early cries of  of the newborn baby. You can’t get a babysitter or a taxi. I am no longer placated with an early night – I want in on the party! Kids have changed the way you celebrate New Year’s Eve. …

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A Boxing Day Tradition: Gingerbread House (and Mini Cooper!)

Boxing Day is traditionally when the Actually Mummy household break into our gingerbread house. Lovingly crafted sometime during December, it takes pride of place on Mummy’s counter, suffering mini-burglaries, and minor structural damage until Boxing Day, when we are officially allowed to demolish it, and demolish it we do! Our gingerbread recipe comes from BBC Good Food, complete with template. It makes perfect gingerbread: firm enough to cope with the house structure and onslaught of decorating by young children; not so hard it breaks your teeth when you try to eat it! Use a template to lay on the rolled-out …

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Christmas Eve is Caption Eve

It may be Christmas Eve, but it is still Saturday, and you know what that means! A photo to caption: On the 24th Day of Christmas Mummy was hunting around for quick and easy recipes and discovered this at I’m Counting UFO’s. I suspect that this is what we will be eating on Boxing Day, when Mummy has no intention of entering the kitchen. Lucky Daddy is good with Tuna! Check it out if you need an easy fix 😉   Linking up here at Mammasaurus!  

Meet me on a Monday

There is a very cool blog over in the States called Never Growing Old. Over there. Java asks questions once a week designed to give us all a little bit more insight into each other’s lives. This week it is about Christmas, so we are joining in to record our Christmas traditions: Questions: 1.Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper. Colour-coordinated to match the tree! Mummy isn’t good with random colours. 2.Real or artificial tree? Artificial. Real makes too much mess, clogs up the hoover, and has to go to the tip after the holidays. Which in Daddy’s world means …

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Saturday is Mammasaurus Caption Day!

Or #Madcap, as it shall henceforth be known. Caption Saturday is having a theme this week. We got enough pictures of Mammasaurus that we could share them around a little, and together with Here Come the Girls we have secretively created a lovely online gallery of the lovely lady, on her very own blog! Aren’t we clever! Now it’s your turn, to find a caption for this: On the 17th Day of Christmas Kat Tate invited Mummy to share a glass of champagne and reflect on 2011. Always a fan of the popping wine, Mummy readily joined in, and is …

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Funny things kids do at Christmas

Ever wondered what we kids think about Christmas? Of course we want Santa to come, but maybe we want family, lovely food, songs about the baby Jesus? Nope, as far as kids are concerned, this is what Christmas is all about: And I mean ‘everything’ important. There is nothing else. Shallow, aren’t we? Although, before I knew too much about presents, I did learn the Christmas story, all about the baby Jesus, the shepherds, and the kings. I proudly told Mummy and Daddy the facts, and answered their questions. Mummy asked what gifts the kings brought and I firmly announced: …

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A Picture of Me

Many of you know that I write this blog autonomously and that you never see my face on here. I wrote yesterday of how well I am doing at school and this has resulted in calls for me to display my picture. I really prefer not to, but just for today you get to see a real life picture of me… …in the cubist style 😉 Now, on the 9th day of Christmas I visited the very beautiful blog that is Cherry Menlove. This is quite possibly the most gorgeous blog to look at that I have ever seen. I …

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The Things They Teach in School These Days! Wot So Funee

I was having a chat with Mummy the other day about school in the olden days. She laughed when I asked her if they had school when she was young and if she went. I thought it was a pretty reasonable question given how little she knows about the things they teach in school. I am 7 and I already know more than her. This is a synopsis of several post-schoolday interactions we have had over the last few weeks: Mummy: What did you learn today? GG: Oh just Symbolism in Hindu worship…. GG: I was sad today because I …

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Top 5 Christmas Songs

Lets get one thing straight. This is my blog, right? Therefore these are my top 5 Christmas songs. If you don’t like it don’t listen – but these are, in actual real life, the top 5 Christmas songs of all time. That’s my time, right? Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade: Mummy has been struggling to feel the Christmas spirit until now, but this has got her tingling, she says. I think they look weird, and what on earth was the rubbish telly? Did nobody tell them about HD and 3D? However I do have to admit that it is my …

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December: 31 Days of Bloggers!

I finished NaBloPoMo yesterday and went over to Twitter. I remembered how much I liked it. I tweeted a bit. People tweeted me back. Pretty soon I was loving it and stayed way longer than I intended. I linked up my final NaBlo….(oh I can’t even be bothered to type it any more) and for the first time this month I clicked on a link from another blogger rising to the challenge. For.The.First.Time. How rude! Here I am, blithely linking up my posts and not visiting anyone in return. So apparently there is another ‘blog-a-post-a-day’ thingy starting in December. Well not for …

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Blogging Charter in the light of NaBloPoMo

Michelle at Mummy from the Heart recently tagged Mummy to write a Blogging Charter. A Charter lays down some intentions, a set of rules if you like, around which you will go about your business, in this case, what readers should be able to expect of you. Now as some of you know, Mummy is particularly rubbish at responding to memes (soon to be rectified if you are still awaiting a response on Versatile, Leibster, About Me and 10 Questions!) I have twisted her arm though, because as the chaos of NaBloPoMo comes to an end today, now seems like a good …

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Saturday is Caption Day

It has been a lot about toilets in our house, and this one has undergone some repair. What do you think? Fancy some more? Go see Mammasaurus Rawr!

NaBloPoMo: Why I Will not be Doing it Again

Dear Mummy, stop being such a perfectionist! You have blogged every day for 25 days. You do not have to do another 5. Enough is enough! If you are bored your readers are probably bored too. Your writing has suffered, your photo files are a mess, we have been surviving on pizza. Stop it! Love from GG. PS – we would like you to play with us…. Dear GG, I can’t stop, I will feel like a failure. And to give up 5 days before the end – can’t do it. Even though I know that I am not posting …

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Wot So Funee? 9 More Toilet Humour

I wrote yesterday about how much I appreciate my brother. He enhances my life in so many ways; here is an example of one, overheard whilst we were in the bathroom together: Me: Thank you Bug for chatting to me while I’m on the loo. Bug: S’alright GG. ‘Cos it’s really boring doing a poo and it’s nice to have someone to chat to. You’re welcome sister. Oops look, my willy’s poking up out of my pants! Blaaaahahaha! That’s not good is it? No, it’s not! ‘Cos I need a wee! Oooh that really wouldn’t be good, because then you …

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