Turned 40 recently. Immediately slammed with tennis elbow, new wrinkles have formed overnight and now my favourite jewellery shop is closing for good. I now see why old people think everything is shit.

Impending disaster movie based on my life: dropping the kids off at school in a white t-shirt and no bra, and it's just started to rain heavily...

Playing 007 First Light, and saying "I AM James Bond" in the style of Jeremy from Peep Show roughly every 15 seconds still hasn't got old yet.

Just got asked why I'm so hateful by my son because I wouldn't let him have four biscuits as a snack. I believe the UN will be issuing sanctions on me shortly.

I don't swear in front of my kids, and I have never said this phrase in my life, but I dropped something yesterday and my youngest exclaimed "Shit in my hand!", so that's going to be a fascinating trail to figure out where any of that came from.

Italy's entry looks like if Trent Reznor gave up the BDSM and discovered hair gel instead. #eurovision

First impressions of Eurovision: leather trousers are *super* in this year

Marking Attenborough's centenary month by watching pigeons fucking in the garden

As someone about to send a child to a non-mainstream specialist school and apply for transport as part of it, it's genuinely terrifying to see how many councils are turning Reform, and wondering how many children will be left behind or denied.

Neighbour decided to start a conversation with my husband by saying, "I notice your wife's had a breast reduction!", which is an interesting way of announcing you've been staring at their wife's tits.

Phrases I never expected to say as a parent part 18: "We need to stop now, but if you're good you can have more jazz later."

Stupid festival of spring. Easter bunny can get in the bin. 😫

Everyone get ready: son has a new cooking-through-history homework, and this time it's WW2 rationing. Timely. Already had a go at mashed potato biscuits and carrot cookies. Historic cookery is my jam (Chutney? Pickle? Spiced mince?)

Son: We get to name the table we sit at around school! Me: So what did you lot call yours? Son: Kim Milkinson and His Milky Minions *pause* Son: I wanted to call it 'Fartbags' but it got denied.

Picked up a pair of white, wide-leg palazzo trousers, figuring I'd look stylish and summery and Italian. Verdict: less Sophia Loren, more Berlusconi.

How it started: Son got dressed for school all by himself! Pride! Independence! Winning! How it's going: call from school to say son went to take his PE hoodie off and realised he forgot to put a t-shirt on.

Trying to watch the ice hockey final whilst my daughter insists on playing shops is giving me a new appreciation for the film Clerks.

Operating on a stress level somewhere north of "immediate heart attack" as my daughter hasn't been coping at school for the last month and everywhere I'm trying to get support from has essentially shuttered services due to lack of funding.

I've tried the SAD lamps. I've done exercise. I got a new hobby. I took my vitamins. Nothing. Think it's gonna have to be the ol' rioting next for me.

Everything reminds me of him...

I'm nearly 40 and a school mum just said they were friends with me. I've done it. I've won autism.

Am on the sixth week of a six week home exercise training programme, and I'm delighted to announce that it's completely turbocharged my stamina for loud, incomprehensible swearing.

Daughter has started making up her own songs and doing jazz hands to indicate when the song's finished. I imagine this is what it was like to live with Shirley Bassey.

Just watched the youngest's Nativity. Absolute highlight: narrator with the strongest Yorkshire accent declaring wearily: "CHRIIIIIIIIIST... (deep sigh)... t'King were born today."

A TEENAGE GIRL JUST SAID SHE LIKED MY HALLOWEEN OUTFIT. I WIN HALLOWEEN FOR THE YEAR. SORRY, GEN Z, I AM THE COOL ONE NOW.

Because I am absolutely, totally not extra, Halloween this year involved me cooking a massive banquet of spooky food, decorating the dining room and becoming a witch (in costume, but hopefully not personality). It took THREE DAYS to make everything. I regret nothing.

Son, getting out the bath: Ow, my noob hurts. Me: Noob? Son: Yeah, I leaned on it reaching out the bath. Me: ...point at your noob? Nipple. It's his nipple.

I am alive, by the way, I just had surgery in September and couldn't be arsed to think of anything funny to say about it

Kids have just had their school photo. Checked it online. Their siblings photo has managed to capture the exact energy of the disgraced former politician and his long-suffering but faithful wife. I'm buying 12.

In my continuing series "Ow Ow Ow I'm Old", our latest episode tackles the important issue of me pulling my neck pointing out a word in a child's wordsearch