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Yellows and blues | bokker
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About the half of it. Letter to Leila: Elevenish Months. January 25, 2011. That doesn’t mean that Helen is further from my thoughts. It’s just that having a baby is massively diverting- nay,. It’s the guilty burden of the bereaved. Am I allowed to feel happy? Is it decent for the corners of my soul to be filled with a quite blinding floodlight of joy, where once they dried and curled? Can I be at once broken and stuck back together, and shiny and whole? 8221;, as I sometimes feel the urge to do. I don...
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May | 2010 | bokker
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About the half of it. Archive for May, 2010. In praise of hands-on Dads… and Mums. May 27, 2010. 8221; I find myself melting a little at the sight of dads with their young children in the park after school ( as I parade around and around and around its perimeter, because it’s the only way Leila fancies napping at the moment). But the mums don’t melt me. People (I) admire a father for being involved; they (I) expect a mother to naturally be so. Throw those curtains wide. May 9, 2010. Visiting from Thailan...
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June | 2010 | bokker
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About the half of it. Archive for June, 2010. The Food of Love. June 23, 2010. When I was pregnant I asked on this blog for film and TV series reccommendations, for all those long hours I would spend feeding the baby. Turns out I just watch Come Dine With Me on 4OD. What? At least it’s not Jeremy Kyle or worse (? Ben de Lisi’s Italian sausages with peppers (it was a sleb episode, natch), if you’d like to know. Quite tasty, but misleadingly simple. Nil points for effort, BdL. June 22, 2010. June 9, 2010.
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About the half of it. To sleep, perchance to wean. October 18, 2010. Tags: 8 month old baby. Heavens, it’s been a while. Sorry for the very long absence. Was feeling a little bit bleurgh and argh, on account of hormones and tiredness, and have generally been absorbed in the business of a life which can swerve from sheer frustration to utter elation in the space of an hour. But BUT. I am pleased Leila has slept through (will not say “is sleeping through”, I do not play. There’s a pernicious, spoken ...
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November | 2010 | bokker
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About the half of it. Archive for November, 2010. Lions and hoovers and bears, oh my! November 11, 2010. She’s scared of the vacuum cleaner. And usually I’m in such a rush to get things done, get everything done, that I simply rush around the rug singing and grinning and hoovering as she sits wailing in her playpen. That first shudder of shock, when she almost jumps in the air with fright, is somewhat heartbreaking, but I sing and grin and Get Things Done. Can I do this? 8221; Just, dude. November 2, 2010.
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Battle Fatigues | bokker
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About the half of it. Lions and hoovers and bears, oh my! Letter to Leila: Elevenish Months. December 20, 2010. I’m going back to work in less than a month, which is….fine? You can probably guess that I come down quite firmly in the “no” camp when it comes to the question: are parents the tiredest of all? But is it more knackering than work? And soon I get to do both! Responses to “Battle Fatigues”. Feed for this Entry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Work it out | bokker
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About the half of it. February 6, 2011. I have often read. Writings on gender identity, that it is the burden of working mothers to feel guilty about abandoning their offspring to go out to work. The accepted line is “I only work because I have to”. This is totally how I felt before I went back to work. I would have been absolutely delighted to be a stay at home mum for a few years. But now I’m back? I like going to work. I don’t like the fact that, while I hoping to roar back into action with a pi...
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A political broadcast from the CAN’T party | bokker
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About the half of it. Letter to Leila: 8 months and change. Lions and hoovers and bears, oh my! A political broadcast from the CAN’T party. November 2, 2010. I interrupt your normal sporadically updated blog, and my extremely short nap, to bring you news of an important campaign spearheaded by me, Leila Helen. Fellow babies, isn’t that what you want, too? Well I say enough. Comrades, now is the moment. The moment for parental units everywhere to listen. Throw your teddies in the trash! We must be strong&...
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October | 2010 | bokker
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About the half of it. Archive for October, 2010. Letter to Leila: 8 months and change. October 26, 2010. Tags: 8 months old. Happily, by around 7 months we had crossed that void (well, I grubbed around at the bottom of it for a while, but let’s not dwell on that), and suddenly you were, well, a proper. What you withhold in cuddles, you make up for with kisses- an exaggerated open-mouthed MWAH! You feed a mere four times a day, you’re generally more self-contained. As a result, my mind feels les...Heavens...