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Very long but really nice day with the smallest visiting everything Man City. He now badly wants to experience academy football. He was pleased to find out that the players eat pasta for breakfast

My moisturiser has nearly run out and Cam asked if I wanted to borrow some of his.

I said "thanks for offering but I have old lady skin so our products are quite different"

He said with ALL of the love in the world "ow mum, you're not old, you're JUST middle aged".

Annnddd the child has tested positive for covid whilst I'm mid way through cooking dinner for loads of people and it's the only time I get off all year to do the social stuff..

Fuck this stupid virus

I keep trying to share invite codes but people don't seem to want them... even though it's nicer here..

Well not all of my friends.. some of you are here... but my feed is almost exclusively @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com which is OK but I can't keep replying to him because it will, eventually get a bit weird.

I'm completely rubbish at this platform... all of my friends are in different places and I'm a bit rubbish at making new ones.

Surely it doesn't have to be one or the other...

Gorgeous pup. Have a lovely Christmas Neil and Ash.

Gilby "I know who Johnny Cash is... he plays for Westham!"

I'm absolutely skint. But the feeling is still there.

Stuff has really not been good. I'm over it.

The temptation to just buy a boat to live on alone is real

My kid just lost a tooth whilst eating breakfast, but I didn't understand what they were groaning about... until they THREW IT IN MY LAP.
Major gag.
**then full autistic meltdown because their mouth feels different.

Teeth make me so squiggly.
Why are they so bloody foul....?

Hands up if you have accidentally put your kids to bed too early because it's quite dark outside?

Obvs amazon isn't my preferred shopping channel... The shop address is public so things can also be posted directly.

This project helps LOADS of families at this time of year.

Are you in????

Please help if you can!

The Christmas appeal mostly receives requests for pjs, selection boxes, blankets, slippers, toiletries, socks, family games etc.. they aren't massive things.
amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls…

Here's some ideas if you're out of the local
area.

Women sat on a bench outside her shop wearing a santa/grinch suit

I ordered some costumes to promote my shops Christmas appeal! Who wants to help raise presents for children in Bletchley??

Get involved??!

Shop counter with a wire Christmas tree covered in gift tags.

It's the time of year where I write tags for the gift appeal. We help to gather donated gifts on behalf of 2 organisations who distribute them to people who need extra help this Christmas. If you want to help and aren't local feel free to post gifts to the shop and I can allocate a tag😍

I really recommend the place G has been having g therapy... they do online too. Very reasonably priced and very inclusive

A light oak furniture board desk in a childs bedroom with laptop bits and bobs on.

Made Cam a desk with some odds and sods of furniture board. That iron on edging stuff is fiddler than it looks... there's probably furniture makers looking at it and spinning but he likes it so its great.

He doesn't DO social media...

Maybe they think he's psychic 🔮

John "Jack" Clegg with George Martin working on The Hugget Family

I've been watching out for my neighbour for a long time.

His stories seemed completely nonsensical.

Anyway, they were all true.

Here he is with George Martin.

He's currently in a care home whilst we make his house safe to live in.

It's been really interesting getting to know him properly.

It's amazing the power people assume cast members have. So silly.

Gilby has 5 friends.

They have two names.

Apparently this is to "save time".

Frosty sunny field

Morning

Cam is taking part in a secret santa at school.

He has drawn a kid who Cam says is a nasty homophobe.

He's ordered a 5ft pride flag to gift him.

I think I birthed a legend.

Gilby just went into the bathroom saying 'mum, do you think I can multitask?, I'm gonna try to poo brush"

This....the child who Is so concerned about other people's hygiene...

I listened to a podcast that said that women shouldn't nag, they should suggest to their partner that they would be made really happy if they had some help...

1-It's not fucking helping if it's your house...and 2- do you think asking nicely worked people would nag?!

Trying to explain to the autistic child that allistics don't like to have people sat basically on their shoulder whilst trying to complete a task....but the child can already see how to work out the problem when the allistic isn't ready yet...