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The Great City Swap – monkeying around in Edinburgh

April 25, 2018 By Ellen

We did this in 2016, it’s time for a return visit to the zoo. It’s a refrain nearly as common as “muuuum, where is my….?” and it’s one that’s often harder to find an answer to. It’s this old chestnut: What are we going to do today? It’s particularly challenging in the Palace of Bundance because […]

Filed Under: boys, family, review Tagged With: boys, children, City Swap, Edinburgh, family, Glasgow, inspiration, Reviews, travel, zoo

Go Ape Aberfoyle: Hanging around in the trees

April 22, 2018 By Ellen

“Go Ape,” the signs urge all the way through sleepy Aberfoyle on a slightly damp Sunday morning. It’s hard to imagine the crimplened coach passengers (the only others on the main road at the time) going even a very little bit monkey.    Pondering this we – Boys One, Two and I, arrived at beautiful […]

Filed Under: Aberfoyle, adrenaline., boys, climbing, fun, Go Ape, harness, other things i learned Tagged With: Aberfoyle, adventure, carabiner, Go Ape, treetop

Housework is a feminist issue

April 13, 2018 By Ellen

Nearly joking   One of today’s jobs A woman’s work is never done. Barefoot, pregnant and chained to the kitchen sink. Maybe that’s a joke, a cliche that’s old hat, but not entirely… Survey after survey show that women do the lion’s share of domestic chores regardless of how much paid work they do. They […]

Filed Under: boys, family, feminism, gender roles, housework, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: chore, domestic, feminism, housework

What’s been going on since the snow?

April 5, 2018 By Ellen

It’s such a cliche, isn’t it? Starting a blog post with some sort of self-flagellation about being a second-rate blogger. Ho hum. So I won’t bother with that. Thing is though, I had no idea so much time had slithered away. Sure, I knew it had been a week or so, but not a month. […]

Filed Under: 365 photos, boys, family, other things I have learned, Uncategorized Tagged With: busy, busy weekend, cancer, children, Easter, family, fire, Glasgow, in my life, in the world, lake district, My Life, nightclub, Scotland, yoga

More than you’d expect from a day out in Balloch

April 5, 2018 By Ellen

This post is all about taking a closer look at the ordinary things. What started off as a perfectly nice but fairly unexciting Sunday outing to Balloch, turned out to be unforgettable. And in a good way. Things I learned from a #kidsgofree day out: Human mothers don’t have it too bad. There’s a kind […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: Balloch, Easter, family, fish, Glasgow, kidsgofree, Loch Lomond, parenting, Scotrail, train

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