The trouble is they are used to her mother dropping everything to look after the kids. She is still on holiday so second string gets called upon. Except I'm not so keen on doing babysitting duties thank you very much.

Love the grandkids, but I don't want to babysit them or help raise them. I raised my own three without the aid of grandparents or other babysitters on call, and have done my share of childrearing. Now it's their turn.

Definitely bottom of the class as a grandmother .

I too love the yellow door. Were the fishing nets and floats not very colourful? I'd have preferred that one in colour I think. Agree about the arch in # 9, and maybe that one would work in B/W?

It does look like it was made from all the leftovers of the other coloured versions of the K-x but it is kind of appealing in a hideous sort of way.
The action figure - Pentaxman? sounds fun.

Having failed for grandmother of the year today I am on my second Merlot now.

Son phoned this morning to ask if I could look after youngest grandson as the older one had to go to hospital for a check up. I had already made other plans so said no. He was not happy. I said if he'd asked me yesterday before he left me with them I could have done it, but phoning this morning was too late. I have my own life.
He hung up in a huff.

Eats, shoots and leaves.

What about the greengrocer's apostrophe?

There is an interview with her this afternoon on Radio 4 - she gets to meet the journalist who helped save her life. I'm looking forward to hearing it.

Since my English lessons never seemed to cover the finer points of grammar, or indeed any grammar beyond a capital letter and a full stop (1960s education at it's best ) I shall not be joining in.

I can confirm that Murphy's in Cork is very very good. But then so is Guinness but Beamish is the best .

Oh boy, I can see a new argument coming on - whether or not to use the Oxford (or Harvard if you are American) comma.
Personally I do not use it, unless it helps resolve an ambiguity. Rephrasing often does that in a better way than an Oxford comma.

I don't know if this has been on here before but this may be of interest to those of you lusting after this beastie