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Dressin’ Up A Cast

If you’re a regular minion, you may recognise my usual uniform: Geek shirt: check Jeans: check Lab Coat: check Moustache: check Clearly fashion is not one of my strengths. Consider the fashion industry exempt from my plans for world domination. And yet the physio/doc asked ME to choose the colour […]

Round 5: Sinister v EG Mum

Well, that was something I hadn’t planned on for my holidays. Giving the trumpet a bath. No. That’s not a euphonium, or a euphemism. Let’s just take a step back first. If you are new to the blog, you may not know my parenting style or life purpose. In summation, […]

EG Mum v “The Baking Mum”

Well. Good to know where I stand, Zaltu. The minute Sinister and Nefarious are dropped at school, Zaltu knows it is her time. Parks are visited, pigeons are tormented, EG Senior Citizens are wooed. When we arrived at the playground, Zaltu made friends with another toddler. A toddler who had […]

Round 3: EG Mum v Sinister

I was schooled by Sinister today. And deservedly so. It was on the daily walk to school. The usual reminders were being discussed. * Don’t steal other lunches – hungry minions are unreliable; * Never admit to anything until you know they definitely have evidence against you (that’s how I […]

Solitary Confinement

There is a reason why isolation is used as a form of punishment. It really messes with your head. Ask any parent awake at 2am. When you hear that first cry awaken you – a gentle plea for comfort; a territorial demand for a nipple; the frightened scream not yet […]

Round 2: EG Mum v. EG Grandma

We already know how evil grandma can be. This is just the beginning. EG Inc has travelled 2500km into the pits of Hades (read: Nth Qld in Summer) to visit family/demons. It’s bad enough that the heat is more repressive than a cooked laboratory, but now EG Grandma is taking […]