Who gives a monkey arse about Twitter when there’s Pinterest!

Ohhhhhh what shall I pin to Pinterest today?

*Dances joyfully around room*

Okay, okay, okay, I admit it. I have way too much time on my hands lately. Master Ben has been off school for three consecutive days. Master Jacob was off school for three days the week before – I am going quietly insane.

Okay maybe not that quietly.

I just need some quiet time. Alone. I want to do that artistic author thing – contemplate major philosophical ideas, be reflective and pose artistically at my desk without any interruption from children wallowing in self pity that they’re ill and bored.

I mean: three days off school? I would have been leaping for joy when I was their age if I was off school for that amount of time. Unless I was so ill I couldn’t walk, couldn’t see and had dysentery I was at school every single sodding day. All my boys have had is sinusitis. Huh – I would still have been going to school with sinusitis AND doing fifty press ups in the gym.

Now what shall I pin on Pinterest? I think I need a new display board. Maybe a shopping related one?

Mmm…shopping.

Maybe I don’t really need to pose artistically…

Yes, so a shopping board it is. Hmm…wait a minute. What about a board for “Things I fantasize about when I’m stuck at home when my kids are ill” ? That could be shopping then and lots of other things too! Whoa, I’m a genius!

Now, let’s Google “sexy hunk cleaning my kitchen” and see what the images throw up.

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