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A Good Deal
Why is having sunflowers in my house a recipe for instant happiness? Do they remind me of van Gogh (and hence incredibly wonderful art and the Musee D’Orsay and being in Paris)? Or is it just because...
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The Baby-Whisperer Speaks (23 + 2)
So there I was, manoeuvring my not-so-little self through the checkout at Tesco (purchases: one block butter, one carton double cream, two cartons cream cheese. Conclusion: baking, or Happy Cow Day)...
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Say it with cheese
Remember that time we went into hospital for the weekend? Apparently, we never officially left. Until this morning, when a lovely doctor from the Royal Berks’ children’s clinic looked us over and...
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Librarian style: playing the Tesco roulette
Hey, look what I found in Tesco the other week: Clothing at Tesco, here. This season, Tesco have discovered in themselves a mania for shift dresses, which is rather convenient. Not only do shift...
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This Week on Oxford Road: OpenHand OpenSpace art centre
‘RIGHT’, I said, picking McSnottyBaby up from his fourth banged head, ‘that’s it. We’re walking to Tesco’. This is because, if you hadn’t noticed from the frequency of Tesco references on this blog,...
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Thoughts on doing the Christmas grocery run
All year, I could’ve been eating paté. ALL FREAKING YEAR. DAMNIT. other baby posts: 1. – 2. – 3. – 4. – 5. – 6. – 7. – 8. – 9. – 10.
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First I had children, and now there’s weird crap in my handbag
There I stood, hovering in front of the Tesco trolleys in a corner I’m sure they’ve designed as a wind tunnel, rummaging through my handbag for a pound coin. Because I never have one, do I? My pound...
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Curses for your worst enemy
May you be the sort of person who forgets to shop online until your cupboards are bare. May you find yourself here, frequently, despairingly, with sad sense of the justness of fate. May you be forced...
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