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This is the part where I tell you to be kind to animals, to help little old ladies across the road, and just give other moms who are having a kak day a bit of a gap from the insistent need to offer them advise on how to control their child losing his/her shit in the bread aisle at Woolworths.
My stuff here is {mostly} my own thoughts - and I do not amend my speech to adjust to your map of the world, or an advertiser or in a bid to make money from my blog.
I think that ship has already sailed.
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Some days I am really proud of shit I say, some days I am embarrassed - some days I have no recall of what happened yesterday.
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Sian Seward (@SianSeward)
/ October 26, 2012Er….Ok then.
Hilary
/ October 25, 2012You’ve got to be shitting me. Surely you’re making this up.
rosfromscratch
/ October 24, 2012Plastic, fantastic!! Barbie’s P.C. (Proper Chinese) cousins, I presume. And I just love the direct translation that usually comes on the back of the boxes these toys come in – Stir flied lice and sweet ‘n sour kitten – for FLEA!!
Especially thrilling to read, when I am sending a fax in the oval office.
Plus, if you are clever, and save all the little metal bits with which the pieces are tortured to the packaging, you will have enough lunch bag ties … for at least a year.
countesskaz
/ October 24, 2012well, the baby in the pram and the bun in the oven is me. I can relate. my kids are 11 months apart. I know….. it’s been 6 years and I’ve only just recovered.
therealjulz
/ October 24, 2012Made in China? Happily of household and considerate father. Seriously? Soft mommy I can relate to sadly.
therealjulz
/ October 24, 2012Made in china? Odd.
One Parent Short
/ October 24, 2012I’m off to buy one this minute! I have wondered for years how I can make up for the fact that I didn’t provide my children with a considerate father the first time around. Of course I will have to throw the preggers mommy out into the street as there is only room for one gentle and soft mummy in my house, but he shouldn’t have been so shameless in advertising in himself a personality trait so rare in fathers these days. Can’t blame me.
jmgoyder
/ October 24, 2012Weird!