It takes about twenty (unpleasant) minutes of rinsing to get one entire 265mL bottle of kids’ shampoo out of the chin-length bob of a four-year-old. The resulting hair is clean, but possibly no cleaner than a half-teaspoon would have made it.
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oh the pain.
After burning the entire inside of your your mouth, your tongue and your lips rather badly and finally managing to get the agony to subside enough to finish some portion your lunch (but not before inadvertently whacking yourself on the head three times with two cupboard doors and a chair), the very last thing you…
Six unfathomable things….
You are all about to enjoy a taste of voyeurism (unless you stop reading now) as I reveal six things about myself that few others know. You can thank Ryan, at Skullduggery, for this one. I still buy a new, special pen at the beginning of every semester, even though I haven’t been in university…
Keep the kid busy
Man, I hate winter. Quite apart from the monotonous colour of the landscape and the congealing of flesh upon exposure to the wind, there’s the element of cabin fever that starts to set in in February. Katherine and I have been rattling off each other lately, irritating each other for no good reason. Part of…
The effects of living with children….
It’s Saturday night. We’re on our way out to dinner with friends. I’ve just briefed the two fifteen year-old girls who are babysitting. John sits in the car, snickering. Me: What’s so funny? John: Oh, nothing. Me: No really. What gives? John: The last thing you said to those poor girls was, and I quote,…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 