Losing to win

Hi, Another week, another post 🙂 Get on with it, Jones! Conversation Last time around you may recall me dithering about – as per 😉 – over Wookieness. The quick answer is we talked about it as a couple. Of course, being a right Nervous Nelly – or Anxiety Andrea? 🤔 – I managed to tie myself up in knots, emotionally speaking. 🙄 Anyhoo, the conversation was along the lines of not wanting to cause upset and embarrassment, rather than seeking permission. Does that make sense? As ever, the Ever Lovely Mrs J continues her wisdom and wifey loveliness. We talked about how it might help, how most of my leg hair has gone through age, and we laughed that […]

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Betwixt

Hiya, I was going to lead in with an apology for not having a pun about a certain chocolate and caramel biscuit snack. Well, two fingers to that idea 😉 International Women’s Day Firstly, happy IWD and I hope you saw some positive news stories or events wherever you are. This year’s theme is Inspire Inclusion and PinkNews have a list of amazing queer women who are inspiring and leading change. I was deeply moved by Jess Philips and her speech around the lack of progress for women’s safety. The ineptitude and shrugging off around the need for us to improve legally is, well, shocking… and yet unsurprising given our current bumbling administration. They truly seem asleep at the wheel. […]

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Pots of gold

Hi, Yay for Fridays! The magic of what might be as the weekend stretches out before us. Mind you, the above is no less, even if you’ve been a work dodger, like me, and had most of the week off. 😉 But, it’s half-term and I think I can safely say, everyone at Jones Towers was in bed of a break. Certainly Child 2.0 (exams + school), the Ever Lovely Mrs J (difficult to be that awesome day in, day out), and Muggins here…. who just needed a break to recharge. Past Behaviours As it was half-term, Mrs J and I have been balancing child care, looking after the hounds, and Life Stuff – so far, so typically working parents. […]

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To better days

Hi, How’s things? Hopefully good and if not, fingers crossed they improve for you. It’s been a rather busy week at Chez Jones: another round of mock exams for Child 2.0, bless him. Plus a training course for Muggins here. Both of us are glad to see the weekend, as our collective brains are in need of a rest. Chams It was Chams this week and yet nearly wasn’t. I’d made a mistake with the web site and that was showing the wrong information. Luckily, I’d logged on to check the forum, and a few of our more alert attendees had already spotted the error. Oh dear, Lynn, do you need a sit down and 40 winks, my love? 😁 […]

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Living through it

Hi, A somewhat later post given a busy day and driving Child 2.0 there, I wait, & we go back again in the electro-dad-mobile. I should add for clarity, that the car is electric, not me. Then again, I’ve not been on charge for a long time. Might that explain the lack of get up and go? Go and get made-up I set off slightly later than usual for Chams. The Ever Lovely Mrs J had been to run her folks around, and holding back for thirty mins wasn’t a massive issue. Not only would it mean Child 2.0 didn’t need to look after the hounds, Mrs J would arrive while I was home, and the post rush hour traffic […]

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Bye bye 2023

Hi, I hope you had a good Christmas, and if not, fingers crossed that things start to improve for you 💜 Christmas at Chez Jones was a fairly quiet affair, but I think it’s just what we needed this time around. No driving around the county (or country) jamming in visits and having a household full of guests. Although, I think COVID19 changed our behaviour during the lockdowns. Instead, we’ve spread things out and it was just the immediate family. As such, it was much more relaxing. Something I think we were all glad of. Big picture With the year drawing to the close, it seems nearly de rigueur to cover what’s happened over the last twelve months. In honesty, […]

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