I Have Saved Myself £12billion

I can’t say I’m impressed by the government’s plans to save £12billion: if I understand Sky News correctly, they simply have to stop spending.  If it’s that simple, why has it taken so long to do?  I’m really not convinced by the argument; after all, when I cut up my credit cards last week, did that mean [...]

Spud: An Apology

Dearest Whinger,
Sorry for taking all the credit for your creative genius.  Yes, you did come up with ‘Drip drop plop,’ but, to be fair, it was me who changed it to ‘Drip drip plop,’ so the creative genius was really all mine.
While I’m at it, I’d better confess that the last line was your father’s.  [...]

Monster Mother

I feel sorry for my first-born – poor Tory Boy got to do nothing and go nowhere without his over-protective parents on his back.  Can you blame me? He’s gorgeous. 
On his first day of high school, I was the only mother who walked their child to the bus stop.   It was seven minutes from the house, [...]

He’s A Little Punk Sometimes

Spud went out in a mood every morning last week: one day he couldn’t find a book he needed to do his homework in the library; another day, he was cross because I reminded him of the time at 7:30, 7:40 and 7:45, and he knows when the bus comes and doesn’t need to leave [...]

A Mother’s Gotta Do What A Mother’s Gotta Do

I may be quiet over the weekend because Tory Boy goes back to university on Sunday. We have spent the week packing and sorting and re-packing. He and I will do some last-minute shopping tonight; spend tomorrow squabbling; and Sunday we will joke and tease each other to cover up our sadappiness. [...]

 
Another 21st Century Marriage
 
Anniversary
Four: such a bore.  One more chore
and I’m out the door.
 
 
© Tilly Bud and The Laughing Housewife, 2009.

Some Housewifely Tips

Partly due to personal circumstances; partly due to witnessing people scrabble around in my bins for food when I lived in South Africa; partly due to a desire to save the planet; and partly due to natural parsimony, I am a keen recycler and money-grubber, so I thought I would share a few tips with you today:
 

Wash [...]

Talking of marriage…

…Tom & Hel refer (btw this is not autobiographical – we were married way back in ye olde Twentieth Century):
 
21st Century Marriage
 
Two minds with but one
single thought: can I have a
fling and not get caught?
 
 
 
© Tilly Bud and The Laughing Housewife, 2009.
 
 
 

I Blame Tom Hanks for My Bad Cooking

He got me into so much trouble once. I accused a friend of being a Romantic (Not A Good Thing in my book) because she thought it was tragic that Helen Hunt was married when Tom Hanks came back in Castaway, and she asked how could Helen not go to him? I – ever the [...]