In a bun dance

If I'm going to get something, I usually get it in spades - luck (both kinds), children, clutter, dirty laundry, bright ideas, daft ideas...

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Where’s mummy? A domestic snapshot

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Where’s mummy?  She can’t be far away, it’s not a very big house.  Where’s mummy?  Have you tried the kitchen? She’s often there.  Where’ s mummy?  At her desk, trying to hit a deadline… No? Where’s mummy?  Putting washing in the machine. Taking washing out of the machine. Folding washing. Occasionally ironing it.  Where’s mummy?  […]

14 years at the school gates: what I have learned so far….

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Update: This was written a couple of years ago – now the baby is in P5 (still cute though).   My baby, he’s all grown up. It doesn’t seem a minute since… Yada yada yada.  You know the stuff – uttered by runny-mascaraed mothers waving children off to school before returning to their bleak and […]

Choosing Meaningful Gifts for Kids

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One of the most frustrating things about choosing gifts for kids is the fact that many of them are played with for a matter of hours before being discarded – never to be touched again. Not only is this a waste of money, it is generally wasteful in an environmental sense as well. Remember, when […]

Things I’ve learned from completing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow

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That’s it. My life is my own again. I’m an ordinary person rather than a mature student. Last week I handed in the final portfolio of my course and, rather than elation and a heady end-of-terminess, I felt a bit flat, slightly sad and, even, a little empty. It would be very tempting to dive […]