Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 20, 2009, 5:37 am
“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 g...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 19, 2009, 10:51 am
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 ...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 18, 2009, 6:01 am
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 f...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 17, 2009, 8:59 am
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 po...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 16, 2009, 5:19 am
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 Fa...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 13, 2009, 4:40 am
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 f...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 12, 2009, 10:08 am
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 ...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 12, 2009, 10:07 am
Remember a few months back when GTT had us admitting to our list of five?  Well Diane’s now admitted that she left a few actors off of her list because she only found them attractive because of...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 10, 2009, 11:05 am
Billy was stuck in a traffic jam on the M2 motorway into Belfast.  Suddenly a man knocks on the window and Billy rolls down the window and asks what’s happening.  The man says that the UDA hav...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 6, 2009, 6:48 am
One of the first questions the sister in law asked after we told her we were having another baby was would we be having a baby shower.  That one was easy.  No. I wasn’t entirely comfortable w...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 5, 2009, 4:54 am
At first I saw this one and thought dammit, it’s gonna be hard to write knowing two colleagues read this blog.  The gripes of my past jobs have all been blogged and forgotten, what will I write...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 3, 2009, 2:57 pm
A few years back when a certain bog roll company started running ads with a toddler posing as their manager, the husband did one of their photo shoots.  He came back that evening rather taken by the ...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 3, 2009, 10:15 am
So last week the boy spents a few days at the mother in laws.  They had plans for the circus, a sleepover with his cousin (well ok, the husband’s step-father’s nephew – yeah, cousin...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Nov 2, 2009, 5:04 am
It’s 31 weeks 2 days/29 weeks* for those of you who are keeping track. Two weeks ago was rough.  I crashed completely and couldn’t carry on.  The sleeplessness, the nausea, the sickness...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Oct 20, 2009, 4:40 am
I asked stupid questions that I didn’t really want to know the answers to.  Deep down, I guess I knew that I would have to face those answers at some point.  Better that I do it sooner, rather...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Oct 13, 2009, 4:50 am
Yesterday I cried.  And although I stopped in between bouts, I never really seemed to stop. I cried at my desk, I cried in the toilets.  I almost went home early just so I could cry the great big h...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Oct 12, 2009, 6:01 am
It’s always nice getting awards, a little bit more bling for your blog.  Of course, when a very Posh person seems to think you’re a kreativ blogger, then it’s an honour.  Of cours...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Oct 12, 2009, 4:44 am
I don’t like to be touched, or messed with.  The husband knows that if he so much as gives me a hug at the wrong moment, he’s likely to get his head bitten off.  Last week, when the mot...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Oct 9, 2009, 9:32 am
I felt numb.  I had so many words but no way to get them upon a page.  The husband thought I was tired, that was why I was staring in to space.  But really I felt numb.  I hoped that it would get...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Oct 8, 2009, 4:18 am
Roommates. I’ve been lucky, the closest I’ve ever had to a roommate was the sister.  Yeah, that was bad enough.  To say me and the sister don’t do well together in confined spaces ...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Oct 5, 2009, 9:02 am
I remember the last time I met a blogger: he ended up co-oerced into marriage and a kid and now I’m up the duff again!  Luckily for Lulazoid and Milo no marriage papers were signed and there wa...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Oct 1, 2009, 5:43 am
There’s some scents that stick in your mind, not necessarily perfumes, but simple scents.   Bread baking reminds me of childhood afternoons spent at Nan’s, the salt air by the sea brings...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 29, 2009, 8:57 am
When the midwife said she’d like to refer me to the perinatal mental health service I just nodded and agreed.  Sure, there was a bit of a difference between my attitude now and that of five yea...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 22, 2009, 9:06 am
The husband called me at work.  “How much money did you get yesterday?”  He meant from his wallet as he had so helpfully pointed to the thing instead of offering to furnish me directly w...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 21, 2009, 6:16 am
That’s right, your eyes aren’t deceiving you, the boy is stripped down to his pants in a wading pool in the middle of September. It all started on Thursday.  The girls and I had arranged...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 17, 2009, 6:28 am
*Cos you know at some point my undies are gonna make it out of the laundry basket. I remember when I was a little girl I had pants with the days of the week written on them.  Now I’m much much...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 16, 2009, 9:36 am
The excitement of yesterday’s scan was sullied slightly by the behaviour of a certain family member.  A certain family member who had agreed to be at our house to pick up a set of keys in tim...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 14, 2009, 11:06 am
Yesterday afternoon I drove out to Nan’s.  Nothing unusual there.  The same trip I do most Sunday’s as Mum lives down that way too.  The main difference, though, was the amount of idiot...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 10, 2009, 4:26 pm
Yeah yeah, it’s over a month away, but I guess all the shops are getting their stuff in, and just like Christmas, it’s apparently never to early to think about these things.  Except in o...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 10, 2009, 9:42 am
Yesterday the husband locked himself out of the house.  Without, I may add, his wallet or travel card and whilst in possession of a bike and scooter.  Of course those things aren’t really esse...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 9, 2009, 6:44 am
Back in the days when we were a one iPhone household, I may have pinched the husband’s on rare occasions and loaded a few apps on to it.  Games, things to keep me occupied whenever we visited t...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 8, 2009, 9:09 am
For people watchers, the tube can be an interesting place.  So many true personalities come out in the people that travel on it.  Chivalrous men, bitchy women, the great unwashed; they’re all ...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 3, 2009, 11:40 am
So it’s been a while since I’ve updated my list of five, 9 months in fact.  You could grow a baby in the amount of time!  As Diane says, you couldn’t laminate this baby – I c...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Sep 2, 2009, 10:09 am
It only occurred to me last week that the boy would soon be going back to school.  And that I didn’t know what day he was due to return.  And last term he’d trashed all but one pair of t...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Aug 28, 2009, 8:17 am
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Aug 27, 2009, 3:42 pm
A couple of years back, some of the girls at work got new trainers. They were black (always a plus when you’re wearing them with your suit on the way to the office) and had this amazing claim th...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Aug 14, 2009, 8:32 am
The Wicked Witch of the West came over yesterday afternoon.  “I’ve got something to tell you” she said, “but you’re not going to like it.” “Go on…R...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Aug 14, 2009, 1:33 am
I can’t not shower.  I’d go crazy.  I remember once the water got cut off when one of the mains burst down the road.  Everyone else had been through the shower already and I was the las...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Aug 11, 2009, 5:30 am
It started last night when the mother in law called.  I can always tell when it’s her calling; I’d spoken with the mother less than a week ago and the grandparents were up in Scotland.  ...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Aug 10, 2009, 11:28 am
Friday nights are jazz nights this month at Merton Abbey Mills.  While anoiit helps to bring in a bit more money for the cafe, it does mean we spend our Friday nights working instead of vegging out a...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Aug 5, 2009, 6:49 am
Last time round I started out my pregnancy with a diet.  The vegetable soup diet.  I was six weeks, but in all fairness, I didn’t know I was six weeks and we’d had no intention of me bei...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Jul 30, 2009, 9:06 am
So I’m now in the second trimester.  I’m supposed to be glowing.  R says she can see it, but I just don’t.  The only thing I can see glowing is my sebaceous glands.  Of course th...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Jul 23, 2009, 5:26 am
Remember the lego that we took away?  The boxes that we took away because the boy wouldn’t tidy up?  Well he hasn’t tidied up and he hasn’t asked me for it back.  The husband says...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Jul 21, 2009, 4:31 am
After the initial excitement of swine flu hitting our office, everything calmed down pretty quickly.  While I’m sure that there have continued to be new cases emerging on other floors, ours has...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Jul 12, 2009, 5:39 am
“There was something about him, something that drew me in.”  She should have stumbled over her words but they were clear and true.  “It was like from the moment I saw him I knew I ...
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Vic P. posted an article on Glowstars: Little Bits - Jul 10, 2009, 6:46 am
It started when Lisapopped out Isla on Wednesday, then T popped out CJ this morning, and KP is due any day now, in fact she should’ve popped one out last Friday.  Then there’s C and M nex...
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