September | 2011 | Mammywoo

Little girl, you are beautiful.

Posted on September 30, 2011 25 Comments

‘RIGHT RIGHT TURN OFF THE LIGHTS, WE GONNA LOSE OUR MINDS TONIGHT, WHAT’S THE DEALIO??? I LOVE WHEN ITS ALL TOO MUCH, TURN THE RADIO UP, BODY CRASHER, PENNY SNATCHER….!!’ Pink shouts at me from my decaying IPod headphones as I start to feel a little more confident about the upcoming journey and approach the […]

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Going loco down in the big smoko. (THE MADS!!!!)

Posted on September 29, 2011 11 Comments

This weekend I am heading to the big smoke. I don’t really know why they call it the big smoke but according to Wikipedia it is because it was labeled as such in the late 19th century and applied in particular to the great smog of 1952. ‘What’s a smog?’ I had asked the Irish […]

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An Eye for an Eye. (An Eye Related Post.) …Eye.

Posted on September 27, 2011 9 Comments

My son permanently sleeps with one eye open. I assume this isn’t because he doesn’t trust me and his father not to steal his worldly possessions from out under him (snot encrusted Spot the dog puppet, nah your alright you keep it) while he dozes, or because he doesn’t trust me not to do a […]

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Level 10, Space 46. R2W

Posted on September 22, 2011 14 Comments

Thursday the 22nd of September 2011 is a date which has been looming in front of me, taunting me with its ever so slow creeping arrival, ever since Tuesday the 13 of March 2010. I had clambered slowly up the 12 flights of bitter cold, rock hard and dirty, concrete stairs heading towards my car […]

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One order of catastrophe please. (with a side of waffle.)

Posted on September 19, 2011 15 Comments

Today is my birthday and I am ‘catastrophising.’ It is of little surprise to me that below that word, I now have a red squiggly line. I hate red squiggly lines with a passion. If I was queen of the world, if only for a moment, I would take that red squiggly line and shove […]

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I’m going to steal everybody’s left shoe.

Posted on September 5, 2011 5 Comments

When the instant finally arrived, hurtling towards me like a ton of concrete bricks I had spent 17 months evading, my heart began thrashing and kicking, screaming for me to escape. My chest became so tightly knotted I found myself forgetting to breathe and against my will my eyes started releasing tears brimming with pure […]