Category: Parenting
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Mother’s Day
Today is mothering Sunday in the UK. I’ve been properly spoiled and yeah I feel like us Mums deserve it, but I’ve also been reminded, while tucking into my breakfast in bed and trying to prevent toddler v crockery chaos, that things could have been very different. If I didn’t have the incredible good luck to have […]
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100 Birthday Parties
I don’t suppose that my Nan has actually had 100 birthday parties, but last month was her 100th Birthday and Evelyn was there for the party. I’m not sure who had the most fun, but I think it was a close run thing between my cousin’s little girls, who had their very own walking talking […]
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The Blue Monkey Test
Imagine a blue monkeyNow, Imagine a red elephant.Now, DON’T imagine a blue monkey Did you think of the monkey again? Tut tut It’s odd the bits of advice that stick in your mind. Long before we had Evelyn I heard someone on TV (and I’m afraid I can’t remember who it was in order to […]
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Previously (not) on The Blog…
Gosh it’s been a while! Not that it’s felt like it as time is just whooshing past us at the moment, but we’ve all been very busy so I’ll just use this post for a quick catch up. Since the last post we’ve finished off work on the living room and dining, taking us from […]
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That’s One Small Step…
Well, news hot off the press – Evelyn can walk! Fred and Evelyn go to a “sing and sign” class on Wednesdays. She loves it and this week, sufficiently distracted by Jessy Cat or perhaps “Don’t wipe your nose on the sofa”, she stood up and walked off unaided for the very first time. I heard about […]
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The Times they are a Changing
Sorry I left with a bit of a rant and then disappeared, it’s all been rather busy here at Slummy Terrace. We now have a fully functional kitchen, non-rotten windows and are slowly peeling back the 1970’s from our living room. I think it’s beginning to feel like home and this has been helped along by the changing […]
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The NCT Uncovers Shocking Hidden Crime Wave!
There seems to be a shocking and massively under reported crime wave going on. It’s probably been happening for years and yet we never hear anything about it. It’s a conspiricy (this is the internet people, there had to be one on here eventually), a government cover up no doubt, so what is this crime? […]
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And The Prize Goes To…..
I was very pleased to read today that Robert Edwards has been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work that has led to almost 4 million IVF babies coming into this world. That’s a lot of parents who would never have experienced the deep joy of holding their baby […]
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A Life (or at least a weekend) More Ordinary
We’ve had some very nice weekends this month. For the most recent one we all went off to Center Parcs with a few friends and the one before that Evelyn and I spent in Devon, investigating some of the many many family attractions it has on offer and of course getting in some quality Granny […]
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Out of the Mouths of Babes… and Mums
Don’t wipe bannana in your hair or tomato Do you really want to mix bannana and tomato in the same mouthful? huh, apparently you do. Evelyn is in another rapid development phase, teeth keep appearing (13 at last count), crawling is disturbingly speedy and she is definataley finding her voice. Her attempts to sing “Twinkle […]
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