OK, so I’ve more or less lost my baby weight. The baby’s given up the boob, so I’ve lost the nursing bras. But I haven’t lost the maternity kecks. I just can’t give them up! I’d like to say they just fall off me now, but that is the power of elastic, my friends – […]
Can’t fit in date night? Got a long journey coming up? Why not combine the two and make it a Date Trip? Date Trip We’re always saying we need to spend more time together. We were due to visit my in laws during half term – a tasty five-hour trip, and that’s with no stops. It […]
There are few things more frightening than having something unexpected in your mouth. So imagine my horror when I gleefully popped in a segment of Terry’s Chocolate Orange, only to discover it was the Popping Candy abomination. It was an outrage! It started as an Alka Seltzer-esque fizz, then ramped up to a shaken Coke, […]
The more kids you have, the less welcome you are. Or is that just us? However much you like us, why would you invite a tornado into your house? We are the Patersons, and we are Playdate Pariahs. Since we tipped from a fairly manageable family of four into a party of five, even our […]