So JU, I am calling on your knowledge to help me. Please! My Pop is 80 next month. My sisters and I would really like to get him a special gift to show him how loved and appreciated he is. Something that he will enjoy, and most importantly use. I have lost count of the crap gifts we have bought him over the years, that at the time we thought he would appreciate, only to find it stuffed in a cupboard somewhere several months later. This time I want to get him something that means something. That ...

Why do you hate me? These are the words that I were faced with from my eldest sister, after a rather traumatic few days where I just ended up losing my temper with her, and unfortunately I just let rip. Since I was 16 we haven't had a good relationship, over the years we have just distanced ourselves from each other. Well I have distanced myself from her. I never thought that she really noticed. We see each other about once a week when she is visiting my folks, and I kind of just put up with...

I was watching The Dragons Den the other day. If you haven't seen it, it's a pretty simple concept, people take business idea's to a panel of multi-millionaires and they decide whether they want to invest their hard earned cash into the ideas. For the most part they chew people up, and tell them how awful the idea is. If by a small chance they like the idea, they then proceed to rip them off, and get all they can out of it. I watched it, I have to say I love programmes like this, I am a bit of ...

So...this weekend I have enjoyed life through the eyes of a two (almost three) year old. I have enjoyed the joys of running around the garden like a mad woman, pretending I am a pretty butterfly. I have enjoyed singing nursery rhymes at the top of my voice and making loud farm yard animal noises to go with said songs. I have enjoyed getting messy, and painting pictures. I've enjoyed riding a scooter that is meant for a two year old. I've enjoyed playing on swings at the park, going down slides,...

I want a baby. I was never really into dolls as a kid. I think it was mainly due to a traumatic barbie doll experience that I wrote about not long ago on here. I just was never really attracted to the whole carrying a doll around, feeding it, changing it, and putting it to sleep kind of thing, only to repeat the process 30 seconds later when I got bored. I was more of a toy cars, run around going mental kind of kid. Not alots changed, lol. To call myself ambitious I think would be wrong. Bec...

I have the ability to get along with people of any age. I don't find it difficult to make conversation with someone who is alot older than me, in fact in many ways I find it far more interesting. I enjoy good thoughtful conversations, about real issues. Now there is a pub that my friends and I go to, on quite a regular basis. This pub is quite youth based, though there is a variety of people that go in. I know alot of my friends would never dream of having a conversation with the older p...

This is the apple of my eye...my little niece Maddy Mae. She is two (and a half) going on fifteen. Ever since she was born I have been amazed at just how fast she has progressed. One minute she was a cute little baby that could do nothing for herself, and now she is into everything, constantly asking questions, and thinks she knows best. How quick did that happen? She listens, and picks up on everything you say. A friend of my sisters has a son that is alot older than Maddy, h...

Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. - Everybody's Free (to wear sunscreen) Baz Lurhman I was brought up to believe that family came first. No matter what. Your family come first. This is true, your family will be there, always. Basically, because they don't have a choice. There will be friends, that you gorw so close to that they also become like family. There is nothing like blood though, to dema...

So I was watching the news this evening, catching up with what is going on in the world, and the headlines today were the news of a pregnant 63-year-old woman. After recieving IVF treatment, she and her 61-year-old husband are looking forward to the birth of their fourth child. She is seven months pregnant, so not long to wait! I can't help but think that this is completely unfair to the child, and they are not considering just how challenging it will be for them physically. Children ar...

I am a Daddies girl. There is no getting away from it. My Dad is a little out numbered in our family. Considering he had three daughters. Which I think has made him more aware of womens needs than he would actually like to be. He has had to put up with 'womens problems', hormones, boyfriends, hating boyfriends, and all other things that makes my Dad turn pale. My Dad gets through it by pretending he doesn't have a clue what's going on and just burying his head in the sand, and coming up...

As many of you know me and my eldest sister have an awkward relationship. We are very different. Our views on life are very different. We just don't see things in the same light. This leads to many disagreements on things. Many arguments. I love my sister dearly though. Part of the reason I fight so hard with her is because I want things to change in her for life, so she leads a better life. I have always wanted to help her. Years ago I thought I could hold her hand through everythin...

I would love a baby one day. To have children is one of my ambitions, and one I really hope I achieve. I am twenty one and at the moment I don't feel at all ready to take on the responsibility of another life. I want so many other things in my life sorted out first. I want to be settled with a partner I love. I want my career sorted out. I want to be settled in what ever it is I choose to do. There are so many things I want to do first. So many things that will make my childs life bet...

I KILLED MY MUM'S RAPIST Oct 14 2004 You always say you would kill for your kids, but you don't expect your kids to kill for you By Paul Byrne And Daniel Boffey RAPED mum Yvonne Bick said yesterday she was proud of the teenage son who killed her brutal attacker. Yvonne, 48, told the Mirror in an exclusive interview: "You always say you'd kill for your kids, but you don't expect your kids to kill for you. "He's a good boy who's never been in trouble before. He d...

What a day. Am I glad to be sitting down. My folks are D.I.Y crazy at the moment. A task that doesn't appeal to me at all. I generally go out when they are doing such things, and keep out of the way, in fear that I'll get in the way, or even worse, they will rope me into helping them! Today there was no escape. My Mum hates clutter. She hates things to be out. She likes the minimum. Me and my Dad however are completely different. We like clutter, and lots of it, and we hate to throw...

I probably shouldn't be writing about this, I feel guilty doing so, but I have to share it with someone. So it may as well be with you JU. Where I can remain faceless, and nameless. I think my sister is insane. I don't say this lightly either. I think she is a nutter. She has always been guilty of strange behaviour. Always. She has this paranoia that the world is out to get her. She also has a face you want to slap. Do you ever see them people walking down the street that have a cer...