One of mine has already flown - she of the shoe bribery. She lives nearby though and actually appears to enjoy spending time with me, so I guess I improved on my own mother's parenting skills.
As for lunch, my mother is hideous, but the woman can cook, so silver linings and all that!

I am considering breaking out the Tramadol left over from post operative pain management, just to dull the agony of the quarterly Sunday lunch horror-fest that I am duty bound to attend at my mother's house tomorrow. I have had to bribe my daughter (her price was of the shoe variety) to come with me. I would sooner…

I'm worried that I may have peaked prematurely, but I wanted to describe why the first episode of this show left me sobbing like a baby. I'm glad I showed you a glimpse of how smashing my Tracy was.

I will try to be braver and join in more. Thank you for the lovely welcome. Pleased to make yer acquaintence. *tips hat*

Why, thank you very much! I have little time (work as trauma therapist, autistic kid, known as The Boy), but "write the book" is on my bucket list. Nice to meet you.

My first comment and I made it out of the greys. I am ridiculously pleased.

Hello. I am an English person and due to my cultural tendency to be somewhat reserved, I have never commented before. I tend to lurk... but I want to share the comment that accompanied my facebook post about this show the other day, because it was the first bit of telly since Breaking Bad that gave me shivers of…