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Why football in our street is a balls up

October 10, 2011 By Ellen

Why football in our street is a balls up and Christmas on Bonfire Night It’s pouring down but my son is out playing football with his friends. He loves it, he sometimes even forgets to come for lunch and, eventually, turns up shivering and exhausted. This weekend the kids organised themselves into a tournament with […]

Filed Under: bonfire night, Christmas, council, football, Humbug, Is it me?

Finding positivity in the face of more exits than entrances

January 13, 2011 By Ellen

Generally, in both blogland and the real world, I try to adopt a position of merciless positivity. I am convinced there is a silver lining under every cloud even if it’s of the what-doesn’t-bust-you.. variety. Lately, though, we seem to have been surrounded by more cruel coincidences than seems right by anyone’s measure. I hasten […]

Filed Under: Archers, blogging, Bucket list, Christmas, family, grief, Reasons to be cheerful

First footing – with the coal, a few useful nuggets

January 6, 2011 By Ellen

Finally, I’m back at my desk after what seems like a very long break. I feel I need to crack my mental knuckles before I get on with 2011 so here’s what I learned over New Year. A currant of Christmas Puddings keeps on flowing. This year we got given three. Two the Panther brought […]

Filed Under: Arnison Crag, back to school, boys, brother, Christmas, Cumbria, family, other things I have learned

Jingle, jingle, ho ho ho and mince pies

December 24, 2010 By Ellen

http://aka.zero.jibjab.com/client/zero/ClientZero_EmbedViewer.swf?external_make_id=STaMSRwfQeW7snEb&service=sendables.jibjab.com&partnerID=JibJab Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab! So there we are, it’s too late for any more preparation, the big fellow’s on his way, so if you’ve forgotten anything vital then, as they say, your goose (or other big bird) will be cooked. There’s just time for me to wish you a very […]

Filed Under: Christmas, things I learned from my children today

All I want for Christmas is Christmas

December 13, 2010 By Ellen

A penny suddenly dropped for me today. I’ve spent quite a lot of effort over the past few weeks hunting around looking for my festive spirit, my fa-la-la and my jingle. However hard I tried though I only seemed to turn up some tatty tinsel, a squashed sprout and a mild hangover. I put the […]

Filed Under: Christmas, Humbug, pantomime

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