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Detective games: spotting the clues…

June 4, 2014 By Ellen

Usually the clues are easy to spot. It’s the moment when the camera holds a seemingly irrelevant shot for a beat longer than necessary, or there’s some chatter about a trivial side issue. That’s the point you know where the answer might lie.  If you meet a character who is smoking, admiring themselves in a […]

Filed Under: birthday, board game, detectives, Ravensburger, Scotland Yard, sleuthing

Choking on a slice of girl cake…

March 25, 2014 By Ellen

Talk about being in two minds about something.Boy Three has been spending a lot of time lately considering his forthcoming fifth birthday. It’s not til June, but it’s already looming large. I suppose when you’ve only had four birthdays, they are a pretty big deal. After discussing the options he seems to have settled on a fancy […]

Filed Under: birthday, Boy Three, cake, feminism, pink stinks, princess, sexism, Star Wars

The perils of the sleepover…

January 16, 2014 By Ellen

We’ve had sleepovers as a birthday celebration for Boy Two for a few years now.Last year, with the kids sleeping in two rooms I eventually had to turn off the wifi at about midnight to stop them Facetiming each other. I think they fell asleep and they certainly didn’t wake me.So Boy Two headed off […]

Filed Under: birthday, boys, Grand Theft Auto, GTA4, parenting, sleepover

279/365 Pic of the day – the awesome one

October 6, 2013 By Ellen

It was Supergran’s other half T’s significant birthday this week and so it was time for everyone to get together. In the words of T’s “favourite son”, who may or may not have had a beer or two: “I think it’s ace that this family comes together every couple of years and has a piss up. […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, awesome, birthday, Cumbria, Edenhall, family, supergran

273/365 Happy Birthday Boy One

September 30, 2013 By Ellen

This time 14 years ago I was in a hospital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and a very small Boy One was in a cot next to me. I was a bit dazed, my beautifully structured birth plan and seemingly unshakable faith in my body’s ability to do the right thing had vanished. But […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, birthday, boy, boy one

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