Monday 16 May 2011

Bloggers Block....

I thought I'd lost my ability to blog but it turns out I had just temporarily mislaid my humour, couldn't for the life of me think where I'd left it. I felt lack-lustre and dull. Checked all my pockets and everything... found the library cards though - result! The funniest things would happen and I would merely observe, unaffected. Last Friday my missing bit turned up, thank the Lord. Turns out I'd dropped it in the school car park, among the crunchy stones and hair grips.

I remember the moment I found it, I was stuffing my wax coat into another mummy's boot, four of us were absconding for the day to the Malvern Spring Show (ahhh bliss.) Driving Mummy closed her boot and Cool Farming Mummy commented that she was looking forward to travelling in a Volv, as previously she'd only experienced the ride quality of a Volvo. Driving Mummy giggled while assuring Farming Mummy that she still had the O safely tucked away.... That's the kind of funny that appeals to me, so I mentally bent down, rummaged in the stones and reclaimed my funny bit, slipping it back into my pocket where it belongs.

Expect humour in future blogs, but at the mo I'm just limbering up, trying to remember how to bluudy write. Small steps, small steps.....

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Malvern Show was ab-sa-lootely brill. Best day out I've had in ages: 4 funny women (I'm included as I'd reclaimed my mojo by then,) a field, plants, food, alcohol and minimal rain.... Perfect day really. AND I saw James Alexander-Sinclair.... he looked totally different to how I'd imagined him. Not bad, just different. Gorgeous voice on the radio.... sigh.... 

Book Club was good, always much more fun when the book choice is liked and disliked equally; Room by Emma Donoghue stirred things up. We had a rather tame meeting when we read The Help!

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The Larches Shop is going well..... for the children! They have negotiated 25p per day per child to set up and run the shop. Last Saturday my sproglets demanded minimum wage and then the 8yo's friend needed paying too... I was 75p in the red! Luckily they covered my costs when they sold one strawberry plant and a pot of chives.... Running a Larches Rural Corporation is exhausting.

7 comments:

  1. Lonhyn I get that too. Had it a bit today but just about got over it - still looking for sense of humour!
    PS read both the room - boring; and The help - brill for book club. Now on water for elephants. Book club girls angling for a field trip to the cinema methinks! Great to see you back!

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  2. Also having bloggers block. By the time I think of something to write the event seems too long ago to be relevant and I fear my blog may just turn into one of those 'here's a photo of my kids doing something' sites.

    I think I lost my humour somewhere in my kitchen, or in a pile of paper, or perhaps down the toilet while cleaning the bathroom...

    Keep those blog posts coming!

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  3. Great video! Thanks. Glad you got your groove back.

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  4. big question: do they deliver? We're needing some plants...preferably the herby kind and ones I can't kill.

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  5. Lou, "hey" from California --

    okay ... how adorable are those beautiful babies of yours?! great post. keep 'em coming, funny gal! seriously, we all go through it ... i'm truly amazed that hundreds of millions of our blogger pals are still clickclacking away on keyboards around God's blue marble.

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  6. I have a black thumb, everything I plant but cactus died immediately. They sense my defeat.

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  7. Lou, when you said boot I thought you meant welly boot and wondered what on earth you were doing you mad woman! But it wasn't that sort of boot was it. Glad you enjoyed the show. Sounds just right and good for the littlies. Future apprentices perhaps. xx

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