The Laughing Housewife

Family, poetry and random thoughts.

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• The Important Facts About Me:

  
  I am a little fat. I like food; what can I say? I have dull hair: mousey. I don’t wear much make-up and have no need of a dressing table. If I look like a bag lady, I chose my own clothes. If I look nice, the Hub picked them for me. Despite all this, I am a little vain. This photograph will be six years old at the end of September. I had to go back that far to find one of me that I liked. But I don’t really care: my husband still thinks I’m beautiful and if he doesn’t, he loves me enough to lie about it. I’m lucky.

• Blogroll

  • http://melanie-lewicka.blogspot.com/ A fellow writer in crime (but not a criminal writer)
  • http://pickapeckofpixels.blogspot.com/ A REALLY interesting man
  • http://politicalphilosopher.wordpress.com/ An intelligent and opinionated student
  • http://toryboys.co.uk/ Young people having a say
  • http://travelerswife.blogspot.com An interesting retired teacher living in Hawaii
  • http://wordsandfixtures.blogspot.com/2009/12/rhyme-and-reason.html She says: ‘Because we all need to mind our language’
  • http://www.madamandeve.co.za/ South African satirical cartoon
  • http://www.newsbiscuit.com/ Hilarious satire on things in the news
  • http://www.parentdish.com/ Just discovered this and it looks interesting

• CFS/ME

  • http://chronicallyme.wordpress.com/ One woman’s experience of ME
  • http://meagenda.wordpress.com/ A website for the UK ME patient community
  • http://www.afme.org.uk/default.asp About ME/CFS

• Close To My Heart

  • http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk/ If you don’t click on any other link during your visit, please click on this one

• Occasional Visits

  • http://bloodywellwrite.com/ Punctuation Police – I love it.
  • http://caughtinthemiddleman.wordpress.com/ My male counterpart?
  • http://norikostale.wordpress.com Tales from other cultures

• Poetry

  • http://magmapoetry.com/ Poetry magazine
  • http://www.alongstoryshort.net/ Ezine for ‘the advancement of writers’
  • http://www.literarymama.com/poetry/ Writing mums
  • http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/ First World War Poetry Digital Archive
  • http://www.poetrykit.org/ Useful site
  • http://www.rainycitystories.com/ Writing about Greater Manchester
  • http://www.rogermcgough.org.uk/ My favourite poet
  • http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/index.php Encouraging poetry performance

• Saving Money

  • http://openlearn.open.ac.uk Free education from the Open University
  • http://readitswapit.co.uk Free book swapping
  • http://www.freecycle.org/ Getting rid of your junk and taking somebody else’s

• Things worth a look

  • http://www.birdart.org/roy_astley_fryer.html Animal Art Works
  • http://www.turnstonegallery.net/sitemap/NICHOLSONHARRY/index.htm Wonderful enamel work & others

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