Miss Cherry Red

(Disclaimer: I am well aware that this post makes me sound like an ungrateful and whiny bitch.  I’m sorry in advance) Apparently my home town played host to a rock festival this weekend and that royally screwed up my bank holiday pilgrimage to my in laws. The Hot Geek and Keira on the other hand went. They left [...]

DISCLAIMER: I fully accept that this blog may offend. ********************** My rules are my rules and my daughter will abide by them. I do not sit her down and ask her what she would like to do and negotiate a happy ending. I tell her what to do. If she’s upset, we talk about it [...]

This was the first thing that greeted me in my twitter time line this morning: Now, if you’ve read the ‘About Me’ section you’ll know that I used to want to be a journalist which makes me incredibly nosey by nature. So I did what any self respecting nosey bitch would do… I clicked the [...]

Dear God I am a catholic. But you already know that. People don’t believe me when I tell them about my religion.  They think I’m making it up. My religion doesn’t define me but I do go to mass and I do pray.  Sure, I might not pray every day (if my Nanny Bridget is [...]

This entry is part of the combined Writing Workshop (courtesy of Josie @ Sleep Is For The Weak) and The Gallery (with thanks to Tara @ Sticky Fingers) and combines pictures and words for Emotions: I have four brothers. Sorry. I had four brothers. I lost my baby brother on Friday 23rd November 2007. He was [...]

I took a picture of my daughter at the weekend and the photo shocked me. I always tell her that she is my Baby.  My angel. Yet it occurs to me that she is not a baby anymore. I can’t even call her a toddler with any conviction. She is a fully fledged little girl. [...]

I wrote a little while ago about my brother who died in 2007.  You can read it here if you didn’t catch it. It occurs to me that I have only one photo of my brother when he was drug free. And it’s my favourite too. Here he is.  Holding my daughter when she was [...]

I love jewellery. All sorts of jewellery: beads, pearls, chunky jewellery, dainty jewellery. I even have some gold. Which I don’t wear. Gold and I have a sort of love/hate relationship. The pieces that I do have, I love.  They’ve been given were given to me by family in one way or another.  They have [...]

For The Hot Geek: History dictated no happiness for me History dictated that I’d never be happy History provided men with no spirit and no heart Alone in emotional bleakness, where was I to start?   A man with loving in his eyes Through the wilderness I did see Beauty shone from all around Was [...]

I say ‘just’ but I mean about 6 hours ago. And I don’t mean the ‘hey mum, I’m gay’ kind of coming out either. And before anyone accuses me of being homophobe – I’m not.  My brother is gay.  Deal with it. I meant the I-told-my-friends-about-my-blog way. I have been writing as Miss Cherry Red [...]