Minnie’s Musings
Random ramblings of a middle aged, middle class, middle income woman
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So a young man has died at the hands of a ‘shooter’ yet again. This time it is all over the media because of who he is. His prominence in US politics has warranted flags at half mast. I know nothing about this man – to the horror of my children – because I was…
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I was a tad perturbed when the Dark Prince was appointed as ambassador to the US. I remember thinking that this man has an amazing capacity to creep around the corridors of power, popping up at regular intervals to swipe a top job, only to lose it because the Jack Russell that is scandal is…
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Three days in to teaching part time (one-to-one and adult learning) and my brain has already died. I can feel the cells pitching themselves over the cliff face a la Thelma and Louise screaming about where I can shove my power points as they launch into the sunset. Lord! It’s not like I am teaching…
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So, we had His Nibs home for an overnight stay as Grandma and Auntie E were coming for supper and he likes seeing family. One’s mountain goat monkey of a son has his uses. Specifically a perfect sense of balance and absolutely no fear of heights. On a rocky coast line this reduces me to…
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Which is a shame. Not because I particularly agreed with all her ideas. But because she was a truly inspirational figure; a gymnast slip mum who worked and fought hard to get to the very highest offices of the land. What will be shuffled to the bottom of the various columns currently being bashed out…
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Once again you speak with knowledge and wisdom. Or not. The first morning I put my son in a taxi to school he was not even five years old. I was petrified and heartbroken. The nearest appropriate placement was 15 miles away. In the opposite direction to our daughter’s school. Now, you could argue that…
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Trust Fund Baby was a term bandied about for many years to highlight the wealth afforded to the offspring of the fabulously rich who populate gossip columns and Made in Chelsea. However parents of disabled children across the land also take out trust funds. These are not million pound pots but rather safety pots to…
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The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, again. The Lord giveth us sunshine and warmth. The Lord taketh away, again. And giveth us torrential rain, damp socks and frizzy hair. Am a tad vexed. Why the Lord didn’t giveth torrential rain when my plants were still alive is beyond me. But perhaps he is…
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Having been terrified of dogs as a child (a function of growing up in London and a particularly neglected and fearsome dog at the bottom of the road who cornered me on my way to primary school before a kid from the council flats opposite took my hand and led me away) I have only…
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Geddit?! Pun on Wuthering Heights ??!! Never mind. Isn’t it odd how things change during the course of your life. As a child I was notorious for bouts of crippling vertigo and once got stuck up a castle in France because the steps from the battlements only had a single railing. My mum had to…
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