Glowstars: Little Bits
Blog URL http://glowstars.net
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags working mother, parenting, life, creative writing
Legal secretary by day, wife and mother by night.
Latest Blog Posts
- We’re going on a bear hunt on Nov 20, 2009 in Daily Life books hairy maclary learning reading school teaching the very hungry caterpillar
“We’re going to catch a big one. What a beautiful day. We’re not scared.” And I paused. “Uh-uh! Grass! Long wavy grass. We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. Oh no! We’ve got to go through it!̶...
- A Right Grilling on Nov 19, 2009 in Daily Life david cameron live webchat mumsnet
Or not. I didn’t even realise David Cameron was chatting live on Mumsnet until I saw it on Alpha Mummy, about five minutes after the whole thing had ended. Still, I thought it might be worth going along to see what had been said. Surely thi...
- The Rocket Launcher of London on Nov 18, 2009 in Daily Life insomnia sleep sleepless nights sleeplessness snoring
I grew up listening to the sounds of sleeping. My dad did it, my mum too. When we stayed at my nan’s house she did it and my grandad’s night long mumbling and thumping is still cause for many a joke. He’s a martyr to his insom...
- Untitled #14 on Nov 17, 2009 in Daily Life FAIL blogger internet connection internet explorer iPhone IT tweetdeck vox work
There are rather a few blogs in my blogroll. Ok, I tell a lie, there’s absolutely tons. Some publish daily, others less. On an empty day I’ll open up my reader to see around 2-300 posts. On a Monday morning, after I’ve not r...
- The Girl Loves to Shop on Nov 16, 2009 in Daily Life FAIL
We’d planned to go in to town this weekend to watch the Lord Mayor’s Show and fireworks but the boy got invited to a birthday party and was much more taken with the idea of going to see Fantastic Mr Fox and eating pizza. Unfortunately f...
- The Tooth Fairy on Nov 13, 2009 in Daily Life lost teeth teeth tooth tooth fairy toothfairy
As I got in to work yesterday I fired up tweetdeck to find a rather interesting tweet, with a photo. This photo. Yeah, my boy was missing a tooth. I’d expected it, tried to prepare myself for it, but damn that thing was only wobbling a litt...
- 32 weeks, 5 days/30 weeks, 3 days* on Nov 12, 2009 in pregnancy assessment fetal movement movement panic worry
Tuesday was a quiet day for the lump. We get them sometimes. His kicks will be few and far between but he usually picks up by the evening. There’s nothing like kicking your father’s hand whilst he tries to watch TV. But he didn...




