Why I haven't written a blog this month

I had been agonising for a few weeks after my last blog to decide what I was going to write about this month.  Usually I will be doing something and it hits me.  A realisation of inspiration that allows me to quickly write it.  This month nothing came.  The days passed and no bolt of lightning.  Then Jade Goody died on Mothering Sunday.

Ok, that interested me.  Here was this women, 27 and a mother.  A woman, who's almost every minute been catalogued by the media since she got her kit off on Big Brother 3 in 2002. That was the last series of Big Brother I watched as frankly I found it pretty boring and it was obvious that everyone there was only interested in their 15 minutes of fame.  The worst bit though was just how it was obvious that they put Jade in the show to be the "dumb" one for everyone to laugh at.  Over the years she has become tabloid fodder and has done so many reality shows that everyone feels they knew her. But she was also a mother of two boys like me and had died of a type of Cancer that young women do not tend to get let alone die from

That was a good place for me to start from, but then life (as it does) got busy.  I decided I would whip it up the last week of the month.  Well the best laid plans and all that....... I have just now sat down to write my blog and the words just wouldn't come. So here are the reasons I never got it written.

Saturday - I got a cold.  Not just a sniffling cold this was a nasty, couldn't move my head for fear it would explode cold.  Though not bed ridden, I found it impossible to put together a lucid thought so gave up for the day.

Sunday - Still had the cold, but the day was too nice to stay inside so we went for a walk with our dog in Stamner Park.

Monday - Though rare, I actually had work that kept me in front of the computer until it was time to get the kids.  Then we took the dog for a walk on the downs where she disappeared for the next hour.  Well I say hour, but after about 20 minutes she came out of the thicket for a few minutes, avoiding my and her leash and then promptly went back in ignoring me, trying to use my best Calm Assertive voice to get her to come back to me.  Ten minutes later all thoughts of how the Dog Whisperer would have handled that situation left my head until I was screaming her name and muttering under my breath.  What was meant to be a lovely 30 minute run around for her and the kids turned into the worse day of my week.  When she was finally cornered and brought home, not only was everyone's dinner late, but I was morphed into one of those crazed weirdoes muttering to myself with a red face and wild hair so never got back to my computer.

Tuesday - Again work all day while boys at school trying to meet a very tight deadline then when picking up the kids I discovered I had Ok'd my eldest to have a friend back after school.  Truthfully I cannot remember much expect for the fact I spent most for the afternoon breaking up arguments about which Hulk the children where and cleaning up after the three children as they moved from room to room leaving each one to look like a hurricane hit it.

Today - I am so over writing and sitting in front of the computer I decided I would write a quick short blog then sit down with the other half, have a beer, then watch a DVD.

So.  I am sorry I haven't managed to write my blog this month.  Hopefully next month I will not be so busy or maybe I will start it earlier this next time.