There will now be a short interval whilst I go on holiday.
See y’all next week.

Being a single mum, with two young kids, can be very tiring. It also has many frustrations.
My biggest frustration, in this respect, is coping with all the paraphernalia that goes with young children. One such item is a necessity for those with a toddler, but, at the same time it is both a Godsend and [...]

Well, I have today received a letter back from Anglian Windows.
It wasn’t from the CEO, but from the Deputy Director of Customer Services.
He apologised and expressed concern at the points I raised and has promised to fully investigate the matter and get back to me.
I think he is missing the point of my letter: I [...]

My four-year old informed me yesterday that her favourite TV programme is “Teenage Mutant Ginger Turtles”.
I feel so sorry for them: they’re already abominable mutations… and now they have to cope with having freckles too.

18/06/07
Dear Mr McNutt,

Apologies for writing to you directly, but I have a problem that I’m hoping you can help me with. Let me recount my sorry tale.
We had our whole house done with Anglian windows and doors, some years back. No complaints there: the salesman was polite and knowledgable and nothing like the Zenith idiot [...]

Today, apropos of absolutely nothing, the current Mrs Masher decided that we needed a new freezer for the garage.
For new, read ‘bigger’.
This announcement immediately filled me with dread: this meant I was going to have to tidy out the garage, in order to make room for it. One of those jobs that I have [...]

I lent my bike to a mate for a couple of days. This is how it came back [sob]. To be fair, the indicator stem did get broken once before, but I thought I’d made a pretty good job of fixing it. Perhaps not.
As for the ‘bandages’ on the forks: the seals need replacing [...]

Further to my previous post, I now seem to have got my ugly mug in the local paper.
Again.
Didn’t make the front page this time though.
There is an online version for your amusement, here.
Autographs available on request.