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Six things to do on a snow day

February 28, 2018 By Ellen

    Hurrah! The Beast From The East has finally arrived and all schools in the region have been shut. The view from the window is blizzardy. It’s probably a bit chilly, but I haven’t ventured out yet. I’m listening to a radio phone-in of people reporting the whiteness where they are (not that interesting […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: advice, children, Christmas, family, in my life, parenting, snow

Don’t worry, write a poem…

February 13, 2018 By Ellen

Sometimes you’ve got things to worry about and other times you worry even when there’s nothing much to worry about. It doesn’t make much difference in the end. My advice: Stop worrying and write a poem.  Worry is a big black bird. It spends its hours on a wire. Waiting. And then at the slightest, […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned Tagged With: creative writing, poem, poetry, worry

Periods. Period. What should we call it?

January 28, 2018 By Ellen

It’s a terrible cringe of a word – period. If a word ever wore a tight bun and kept its books in alphabetical order, it’s a period. This is the word that goes with the twee trickles of dyed blue water poured in gleaming ad-land laboratories. Period. Flow, stop. Period. We need something better. Humanity […]

Filed Under: family Tagged With: feminism, humour, in my life, menopause, menstruate, period, women, words

Snow, in January, who’d have thought?

January 17, 2018 By Ellen

I’m looking out on what has been called, of late and on social media, a winter wonderland, but what, in reality, is what you’d expect to see at this time of year, in this part of the country. If your community needs help clearing the roads and sidewalks that are burred in snow, call on […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: boys, children, cold, family, going on, ice, photos, sledge, snow, weather, winter

New year new snooze: Is smart sleeping even a thing and is it worth thinking about?

January 9, 2018 By Ellen

Remember when sleeping was just a matter of lying down and shutting your eyes? I was brilliant at it – talented. My only concern was that I wasn’t particularly good at doing it on public transport or for all that long after the sun came up. But I could do it pretty much anywhere else […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: advice, family, humour, in my life, menopause, My Life, nap, parenting, sleep, Something happened in my life

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