Miss Cherry Red

I do not like my daughter being ill. I get it:  kids pick up germs and scuffs and scrapes.  It’s part of childhood.  A series of events that will prepare them for the world ahead. I get it.  But I’ll be damned if I’m going to like it. It’s like the immunisations she has to have.  I support [...]

That was what I thought about my 3½ year old on Saturday. Jesus, she was horrible.  Just bloody horrible. J, Keira and I had gone to Kent to visit his family and his sister asked me to go out with her in the evening.  One major issue:  I didn’t take anything to wear out and [...]

Picture the scene.  I would suggest closing your eyes but it’d make reading pretty hard! I’ve just finished work.  I’m tired.  I’ve gone to my mums to collect Keira.  Keira is in the kind of mood that wants to ‘test’ me: Me: Come on then flower, shoes and coat on please.  Give nanny a kiss and [...]

Morning sickness.  Rampaging hormones.  Stretchmarks.  A body that looks like it’s been borrowed from some joke shop. 18 hours of labour. All worth it for this: She never cried when she was born.  Not a peep.  She kind of just laid there, all swaddled up and glaring at me.  I cried.  A lot.  I cried [...]

I am not married.  Never have been.  I happily live (in sin) with my hot geek boyfriend. I like it that way.  It’s nice. Although I’m starting to think that I carry around some sign declaring my unmarried status that only those with a ring occupying that finger can see. Does my single-dom offend you?  [...]

… really piss me off. Sorry.  But they do. So much so that I’m thinking about cut one out of my life.  Which is turning out to be a not so easy decision to follow through on because this friend, D, she’s been one of my closest friends for 15 years. But surely friendship goes both [...]

  I miss living by the sea. I miss being feeling the breeze on my face and my hair swirling round all crazy in the wind.  Nothing beats that tingly feeling you get on your cheeks when you come home to a warm house. I need to live by the sea again. I need this [...]

It’s true. I was completely unprepared for motherhood. Babies should come with a user manual.  Or at the very least a helpful guide on how do deal with them.  Like a car manual. You wouldn’t believe how something so small could make so much noise.  The lung capacity required to scream like babies scream would [...]

I like wine. Fact. I don’t have a problem with wine.  I don’t over indulge.  I don’t drink till I pass out.  My first waking thought isn’t for a glass of the pink stuff and I refuse to make any form of apology for liking it. I do not like Chardonnay.  I find it oily, heavy [...]

I will never understand the male psyche? I mean, what personality characteristic is it that some men possess that allows them to believe it’s OK to cheat on their wife and children? I have been in relationships where the man I’ve been with cheat.  I’ve heard countless times the old ‘it’s-not-you-it’s-me story. I know it’s [...]