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On a journey south and a delightful deceit… things I’ve learned lately

February 17, 2019 By Ellen

Write a post every day, she said (to herself, cos no one else cares). Let’s see how that goes then! And here we are a week later, but it’s been a good – and educational week. Here are the things I learned. The long way round still gets you there… (Also known as, confusingly, only […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: birthday, boys, busy weekend, cake, children, family, in my life, London, Ozzy, poem, pride, train, travel

Half term adventure to St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross

February 8, 2019 By Ellen

From the archives – we did this seven years ago and the poor old seminary is still abandoned, it’s future uncertain…                   So it was half term and the mooch was upon us all. The sofa was positively sagging at the effort. What were we going to […]

Filed Under: adventurers, boys, Cardross, family, Seminary

On being useful, pet potty training and a waste of money, things I’ve learned

January 31, 2019 By Ellen

I thought that blog comments were out of style – so last year – turns out that I just wasn’t writing posts that anyone had anything to say about. So that’s something I learned. People will talk to you if stop trying too hard and just say what’s on your mind. Other things I learned […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: family, guinea pigs, moving, My Life, news, parent, pets, pill, student, things I learned, toilet training., University

Dispatches from the bunker of having it all

December 8, 2018 By Ellen

Hello, Anyone still out there? It’s been a bit hectic here at the Palace of Bundance. I’ve gone back to work full time, by which I mean proper, in the office every day, full time. It would be fair to say it’s been interesting. The job? I’m a bid writer – probably the writiest (yes, it […]

Filed Under: boys, family, Uncategorized Tagged With: break, Christmas, fracture, Guilty Feminist, injury, Pawsecco, Stirling, Wallace Monument, working

Pumpkins v turnips

October 14, 2018 By Ellen

Boy One was moaning about the huge effort it was taking to scrape the goopy stuff out of his pumpkin. “You’re lucky you’ve got pumpkins,” said I. “In my day we had turnips and that was a horrible job – it took ages and the turnip stank. The whole job made your arms ache.” I […]

Filed Under: boys, family, in my day, Is it me? halloween Tagged With: Halloween, pumpkin, turnip

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