Ashes to ashes, dust to dust (proverb): From ashes we rise, and to ashes, we will return; life will one day come to an end Someone asked me recently, what we did with the ashes of My Baby and Summer. …
Mumoirs Second Birthday
Portmanteau (noun): A word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others Mum (informal, British, noun): One’s mother Memoir (noun): Historical account or biography written from personal knowledge It’s been two years since launching this website and I’m going …
Monday…. Again
Déjà vu (noun): A feeling of having already experienced the present situation I came on here to write a blog called “Mondays” and it turns out, I’ve already written one here. Oops. I don’t know what it is about Mondays, …
The Awareness of Death
Albert Camus (French philosopher, author, and journalist): He was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 Reading a book about the global solutions to climate change (as you do!) and I stumbled upon a reference to …
The Second Day of Summer
Second (number): Constituting number two in a sequence; coming after the first in time or order It was Summer’s second birthday earlier this month, but it’s taken me a while to sit and blog about it, as we’ve been away …
Past, Present, Future, Always
* This blog is for Charlie, on her 2nd birthday. Gone, but not forgotten * Carry (verb): Support the weight of It’s a new calendar year and a new bruth: I hate not being able to say “she died last …
Hipster W@nker
Hipster (noun): A person who follows the latest trends and fashions, especially those regarded as being outside the cultural mainstream I really enjoyed my late 20’s, slipping into my 30’s. I used to be someone quite unrecognisable from this recurrent …
The Ostrich
Decision (noun): The action or process of deciding something or of resolving a question They say that people have either a “fight or flight” response to events that are perceived as stressful or frightening, but I’ve always had a third …
2021 Playlist
Belieber (urban dictionary): A fanbase for, the one and only, Justin Bieber In our house, if you ask Alexa to play some relaxing music (I still can’t believe my husband brought that eavesdropping woman into our home, without my permission!), …
The Happy Pig
Would you rather (phrase): A game where participants must choose between two challenging scenarios and explain why “Would you rather have a 10/10 happy marriage and have no children or have a 5/10 marriage and have two children?” That’s the question …