“Will we be on time?” Boy Two glances anxiously at the car click. It’s the weekend and we are driving to a snowboarding lesson. Instead of a calm reassurance, the poor boy gets a bit of a rant and then a lecture. The thing is – he knows when we’ve to be there and how […]
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Encourage Your Little Ones To Get Green-Fingered With These Amazing Garden Tips
When most of us look back on our childhoods, we won’t remember sitting indoors playing video games. We will remember long summer days spent out in the park with our friends or playing in our friend’s back garden after school, come rain or shine. If it was rain, or snow, that meant jumping puddles or […]
Instant Ways To Update Your Home
Wood furniture and flooring looks beautiful in both traditional and contemporary homes. It can add ambience to a country cottage or add a chic Scandinavian feel to a modern interior. Wooden worktops in kitchens look super stylish whether in a modern or classic home. And wooden bedroom furniture can add timeless appeal, an exotic touch […]
Something I wrote – Talking like a teenager
Here’s another writing exercise, you might like. It came from the week we looked at The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan. I’m fairly sure proper literary types are supposed to study the book and its inhabitants from a dispassionate point of view. However, I just loved Anais, the tragic kid at the heart of the story. […]