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Category Archives: Biro & Pad: Jottings
Present Tense: The Art of Imperfect Giving
This blog has been strangely silent for many months, its muzzle buried in its paws. The reason? It was on sabbatical. ‘Sabbatical’, is one of those well-bandied terms, that cast a veneer of professionalism over an otherwise less salubrious truth. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Casamance, Gifts, New Yorker Cartoons, Presents, Senegal, Writer's block
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Chocolate chips
It is 10.07. What possessed me to ask Rosalind to hide the chocolate chips from me? Ghirardelli chocolate chips, not Hershey’s, I should be clear. I have thought of waking her and shaking her recumbent body until it divulges their hiding … Continue reading
Consequences of school fundraising – a fishy tale
Update on our elementary school fundraiser, the Winter Social: I regret to report that not only have all the trout died in their new trout tank but that Ms Pickle who heads Community of Caring is having her job axed … Continue reading
Recycling Gilt
Recycling does not have to be for aficionados of tofu burgers or the goat’s-hair-sock-in sandal-brigade. I call for glamorous recycling with a Midas touch. After some horrific sisterly squalls in which it transpired Puffy had found a dose of suppositories … Continue reading
Happy Hanukkah
My ‘Dear Best Jewish Friend’, The only mother I know to have colour coordinated her family member’s activies on a white board. Offspring stick to your colours or you will find yourselves impaled on a menorah. Happy Hanukkah, or the first … Continue reading
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Tagged America! America!, Christmas decorations, Hanukkah, Victorians
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Royal Wedding Angst
So our young prince “who has been practicing long enough”, is due to wed Kate. I missed this entirely but thankfully someone stepped in to update me before I heard it on Wait Wait Dont Tell Me which is where I get most of my news … Continue reading
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Tagged Children, Kate Middleton, Prince William, Royal Wedding
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A post of perfect drivel
This post is not even going to be in the category of parental drivel, just general drivel. I have been single parenting for 16 days. There are three more to go and I am at a loss for coherent words … Continue reading
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Tagged British Legal Alien, Parenting, Playgrounds, United States, Washington DC
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School Winter Social – Cataloguing the funky entrails
Re: cataloguing…the funky entrails address@gmail.com 6:15 PM (6 minutes ago) Dear xyz, I cc Jen here to entertain her in her worryingly arduous life which must be, I can only think, my true purpose on this committee. Yes to 1# Certainly … Continue reading
van der Does de Willebois
Dear BD, van der Does de Willebois is actually not my maiden name but my married name. His is infinitely more glamorous than my own. I did not marry him for his name although I think that as a young … Continue reading
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