I’m feeling so lucky and so very grateful to have been able to come over to see my Mum in Scotland this past week.
Mum’s hip replacement seems to have gone well and she is getting about on crutches OK. I’m here to report that looking after one not very mobile older lady is a piece of cake compared to wrangling the household in Sydney.
Would you care to join me on a tour of my Mum’s lovely house in the countryside of Scotland, just 12 miles outside Edinburgh?
My Mum used to tut tut about Mother’s Day when myself and my sisters and brother were little. ‘It’s just commercial, too American,’ she’d say. And look, she had a point for sure. But celebrating motherhood, and cups of tea … Read More
Do you find that your children seem to take it in turns to be the one you are preoccupied about? Maybe we just can’t cope as parents with worrying about more than one at a time?And maybe worrying isn’t the … Read More
On Tuesday Beth from Baby Mac innocently asked whether any readers had been to Scotland and where they’d recommend she and the family visit when they go in June this year. Cue a deluge of excited comments suggesting lovingly remembered … Read More
OK, we did have a fridge disaster and a kitchen catastrophe over the weekend but apart from that…. you could ALMOST start to say that SOMETIMES there’s a bit of relaxation in there too.
I know!
I win the prize for the Blogger Who Came Home To The Most Washing!
The house looked like a bomb had struck it… dirty dishes across the kitchen, dishwasher needing emptied, drying racks stacked to the ceiling. Admittedly the kitchen does look like that most morning… and my husband did clear up the whole kitchen, thanks you P.
50 years ago today, my Mum was hopping about on the kerb, having painful contractions and wishing my dad would hurry up. He was late, of course… literally out to lunch. Luckily Dad did pick up Mum just in time. … Read More
Well it’s the morning of the 1st of January here in Edinburgh, and I’m just up after a much-needed lie in. The teens and I were down on Princes Street last night to watch the fireworks from Edinburgh Castle.
So what’s a mum of four to do????!!! Our FIFO* Intn’l Man of Mystery is working right over Christmas and New Year; he’ll FO on December 11th and FI again on January 11th 2014. O me miserum!! ** With … Read More
