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Feminist Friday: boys will be children and so will girls

May 27, 2011 By Ellen

Girls and boys go out to play When Boy One was born I had lots of notions about parenting. He would eat the same food as me, I’d discuss things reasonably instead of dictating and there would be no gender stereotyping. Eleven years on, I realise how naive that was and how complex the area […]

These are a few of my favourite things

May 16, 2011 By Ellen

King’s Theatre Glasgow So it was The Sound of music on Saturday. The big Boys and I up in the Gods because I’d left it too late to get nearer seats. After a while the weird stuff my new varifocals were doing and the rustling and banging of the matinee cheap seats didn’t matter, we […]

Me and Bridget Jones: BFF until I became a Smug Married

March 5, 2011 By Ellen

I am horrified to learn movie types are planning a third Bridget Jones movie and that Renee Zellweger has agreed to reprise the lead, but only if they let her do it skinny. On the face of it the idea of a bony Bridget is bad enough. We loved her because she looked, well, normal […]

Is it time to send children out for a walk on the wild side?

February 18, 2011 By Ellen

How much freedom did you have as kids? I remember running about fields, climbing about rocks and fallen trees in steep glens, guddling in burns and hiding in woods. Only I’d kind of disregarded it as a foreign land or a distortion of my wishful imagination. Then, this week, Supersister and I took our Walking […]

Put the lid on the toothpaste tube… just once

January 14, 2011 By Ellen

One of the things from the – seemingly endless – list of things they don’t tell you when you become a parent, is there will be some things your children will not learn, no matter what. Instead, you will repeat requests for the apparently simple tasks to be done again and again. You will also […]

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