…to iron boxer shorts. I had thought that this was an activity restricted to mothers-in-law until a few months ago when I spotted my sister-in-law brandishing the iron over a pile of unsuspecting boxers. Apparently her husband expects crease-free boxers. Personally, I’d just show him where to switch the iron on but then my housekeeping standards [...]
Archive for July, 2007
One of the benefits of injury has been the decrease in the size of my credit card bill, matched only, on the downside, by the decrease in the size of my calf muscle, and possibly out-stripped by a decrease in fitness. Anyhow, the first of these has been the most easily rectified. School trousers, school shoes, [...]
Those Deathly Hallows
Published July 27th, 2007 in Books, Boys, Family, First Aid, Harry Potter, Mother in law and Travel. 0 CommentsI was reading the new Harry Potter at breakfast the other day when GP2 took it off me, saying “You shouldn’t be reading that. You should be revising!”. Too true unfortunately. Surely three years can’t have whizzed by quite so fast? I’m sure it was only last year that I did that much loathed 2 [...]
Good mother, bad mother
Published July 17th, 2007 in Boys, Children, Microscope, Working at home and broken ankle. 4 CommentsI’m back! Well, OK, I haven’t in fact been any further than the utility room at the other end of the house, which doubles as a lab and houses my microscopes in a truly microscopic corner. As Andy from Wales remarked, when he called in to collect some of the buckets of pickled seabed I’ve [...]
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