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95/365 me, me, me – cousins clamour

April 5, 2013 By Ellen

Boy Three is having a ball with his cousins. I think they were taking turns to lob things off the top bunk at Granny’s.   Posted with Blogsy

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos

94/365 A berry good show

April 4, 2013 By Ellen

Such pretty colours in my defrosted fruit.

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Seven social classes: I’m from the cleaning elite

April 4, 2013 By Ellen

Did you do it? Did you do the Great British Class Calculator? It’s hard to resist finding out if you’re really who you think you are. What if you’re posher than you feared or more proletariat than you’d hoped? Apparently there are now seven class divisions from the precariat to the elite and we all […]

Filed Under: BBC, class, Habitat, snobbery

93/365 new season arrives with a streak

April 3, 2013 By Ellen

About the point we give up and resign ourselves to permanent winter, spring bowls in as if nothing had happened. “What, me? Late? You must be mistaken.” And as usual spring encourages people to rashly resume neglected sports and join queues at the garden centre. Flesh is bared and barbecues stoked. But the most certain […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos

Are audiobooks cheating?

April 2, 2013 By Ellen

Pleased to meet you: The moment when Jean Paget claps eyes on Joe Harman in the 1956 film of A Town  Like Alice I’ve been taking my mind off the discomfort of my 10K training by listening to talking books.So far I’ve plodded my way through Dawn French’s Oh Dear Sylvia (a good tale that […]

Filed Under: 10k running, A Town Like Alice, Anna Stothard., audiobooks, Barbara Kingsolver, books, Dawn French, Denise Mina, reading, talking books

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