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Scotland to Cornwall – 569 miles to misery… or not?

June 14, 2012 By Ellen

 This year the residents of the Palace of Bundance are going to pack up their Lego, Men in Black figurines (is a figurine just a toy that doesn’t do anything?), their cake icing partworks and set off for Cornwall for the annual expedition. Can you imagine a camel caravans laden and clanking and covering the desert […]

Filed Under: books, children, children's books, Cornwall, drive, holiday, motorway, talking books

Unexpected benefits of the slattern’s life

May 21, 2012 By Ellen

Happy as… It was musical beds in the Palace of Bundance last night and when the music stopped Boy Three and I were in bed together.We woke up at the same time and spent a few happy minutes making dust motes dance by flapping the duvet. “Pixie dust,” he shouted and stirred the air with […]

Filed Under: children, dust, housework

Bratlag – or how it’s almost good to be home

May 14, 2012 By Ellen

I had time to amble about taking pictures I’ve been home for more than 24 hours and I’m just about over mine. How about you? I’m talking about bratlag – similar to jetlag only less exotic. It’s what happens when you leave your children for any period of time. I was in London at Cybher which is a […]

Filed Under: bratlag, children, Cybher, parenting, snot, sons

Funicular peculiar – a very red-faced moment.

May 12, 2008 By Ellen

We were looking for the fun in Funicular. The last time I spent a weekend in Aviemore, there was a big ugly concrete building full of go-carts and theme pubs. It was so long ago, it was in the time when winters meant snow and snowboarding wasn’t invented. Sigh. But this time we’d whooshed and […]

Filed Under: Aviemore, children, gravid ass, Scotland, sex education, The good things...

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