Daily Archives: October 14, 2009


First Award – woop de doo 5

I am honored and dead chuffed really yo be awarded my first ever blog award by Bad Penny at The Hen House.  How cool is it that someone likes my blog and reads it too.  Penny wanted an alternative Blog Title other than TheMadHouse.  The thing is there is always something going on here and craft things and children’s detritus is strewn on the dinning table and all over the conservatory, so when my mum started saying that we were TheMadHouse it just kind of stuck, she even answers the phone “welcome to the mad house” when she is at mine!! If it wasn’t that then it would have to be more »


Housework Haiku 6

Josie at Sleep is for the week has started a Wednesday writing workshop and I thought as time is pressed for me on a Wednesday (swimming with MiniMad), that I would do a housework Haiku, which is very apt for me this morning Like cement is sets to chair, to floor, to ceiling the child’s weetabix I try to wipe clean but steadfastly it remains I have to scrape hard No more will I buy No matter how much I vow The children want more