Category: Parenting
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The Inevitable Snow Pictures Post
Had anyone in the UK spotted that it snowed at the weekend? Obviously no one has really mentioned it, what with us Brits being so famously disinterested in our weather and all, so for the benefit of those overseas or with their head in a thermal bin bag, here are is a blog post and […]
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Cherish your Chatterbox
..And don’t leave that up to me! Question: If you are out with your child somewhere should you:A: Engage with them and join in their activitiesB: Chat/ text with another adult and completely ignore the kidC: Stand about staring into space and hope some random stranger entertains them I always try to go with A, […]
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Christmas is For The Kids
and their parents!(but not for Sir Michael Caine) For some reason I still get really excited about Christmas, I know full well there is no bike hidden in the loft with a ribbon on it and that there isn’t actually a law that says you can only have turkey and all the trimmings that one […]
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Conversations With My Two Year Old
Mummy: Hello Evelyn, did you have a nice nap? Evelyn: Oh yes! I saw Dinosaurs!!! M: oooo Did you? Where? E: (to the tune of Wind the Bobbin Up): There’s a Dinosaur There’s a Dinosaur Look! Look! Rar Rar Rar (repeat) There’s one on the ceiling There’s one on the floor There’s one on the […]
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Love in a Time of Sniffles
Yesterday was one of those mornings every parent of small children has experienced many times over. You wake up heavy with tiredness and the cold that’s been threatening for days. As you blearily fumble in the bedside cabinet for tissues and any drugs you can find, you say a tiny, pathetic, hopeless prayer to any god who […]
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When We Were Two
It doesn’t seem possible that another year has gone by already, and yet one year old Evelyn seems very, very long ago. This time last year she couldn’t walk and could only manage a few words, most of them duck related, last week, after nursery, I sat down and had a conversation with her. Ok […]
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The Water in Menorca
As I left off talking about holidays, I may as well pick up there. This Summer we braved our first ever family foreign holiday, it was also our first fly-n-flop style package holiday, not that there could be much flopping with Evelyn around! Things I have learnt from this experience: 1- Never get seats 21 […]
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Peek -a- Boo!
Oh my it’s been a long time again, since my last post. We’ve had more work done on the house, braved our first family foreign holiday, had close encounters with monkeys, Evelyn has turned two (yes I know! how the heck did that happen) and Fred and I have learnt to kite surf*! I’m not […]
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The Wet Welly Years
This is perhaps becoming a bit of a recurring theme on this blog – one thing that really annoys me is how negative so many parents can be about being a parent. Recently I’ve heard a few people moan that they haven’t really had a holiday in years because it doesn’t count when you’re running about after […]
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Dara O’Briain and the NCT
I keep thinking I’ll write a post about our NCT classes and how the people we met were invaluable but the stuff we were taught was, especially if you’re a scientist, rather questionable at times. As a colleague of mine put it “the NCT – the most expensive group of friends you’ll every buy”. Fortunately, it seems […]
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