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288/365 What happens when your family is a well-oiled machine?

October 15, 2013 By Ellen

No really? What happens, because I have no flipping idea. I picked up Boy Three and Boy Two from nursery today with high hopes of a freshly cooked supper and a contented evening. Boy Two was in the holiday afterschool club – not ACTUAL nursery – under huge sufferance and in a big strop. But boy Three was […]

287/365 It’s been a long day…

October 14, 2013 By Ellen

And I haven’t been anywhere near walking in the autumnal woods. So I suppose you could call it cheating, but it’s where I’d rather be.

Guest post: Romans and relaxation in Cyprus

October 14, 2013 By Ellen

Katie-Belle is the travel-loving and cakeaholic blogger who usually writes over at delightso.me, where you can keep up with her travels and misadventures in baking. She’s reporting on her trip to Cyprus. She’s probably the exception rather than the rule. But my little girl is already something of a history buff. She already knows more […]

285/365 Nut waving but drowning…

October 12, 2013 By Ellen

Clearly I don’t literally mean the waving of nuts – edible or otherwise. That would be silly. It just seems like a bit of a busy kind of week, the kind when it’s been all about paddling like fury just to stay in one place. You know the sort. It’s been the Panther’s first full week in […]

284/365 Things I’m learning from The Woman In White

October 11, 2013 By Ellen

I wonder when Wilkie Collins wrote The Woman in White in 1860 that more than 150 years later it would still be being read. I’d be fairly sure he had no idea that in 2013 a woman would be able to listen to it being read to her, via headphones from her phone as she […]

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