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Things you don’t need for a happy Christmas

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Undeniably, inexorably Christmas is coming. I can almost smell the turkey and mince pies. Jingle jingle. This year I have decided I’m going to be jolly from the outset. I’ll be so flipping festive you’ll couldn’t pick me out of a lineup of Santa’s elves. But first I’ve got to get one or two tiny, […]

The best way to get rid of annoying cold calls

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Hello. Boy Three meets my new fish-eye lens “Hello”   “Miss Arnison, Miss Ellen Arnison.”   “Yes?”   “Ellen. That’s my mother’s name too. Ha ha ha.”   “Oh.”   “Yes. I’m garble garble splurt from hurfle mumble UK.”   “Who?”   Louder “Garble garble splurt from hurfle mumble UK. I’m doing a short household […]

What do you say to a child about heaven?

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An old post, but worth another outing… “What does heaven look like?” asked Boy Three from the back seat of the car after he finished stuffing his face with the day’s nursery baking. He’s supposed to take it home for after supper but it rarely makes it as far as the main road.  “Erm,” I […]

I love my sense of smell

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Really. I am guilty of taking my olfaction for granted. Of not paying any attention to the molecular miracle that happens with each inhalation. Of looking down my nose at the importance of matters retronasal. Until lately, that is. For the past few weeks, I have succumbed to the lurgy and been more clogged up […]

They never ask men how they’re going to juggle everything…

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You hear quite often. That thing about how no one ever asking a ‘pregnant’ dad how he’s going to juggle work and childcare. Nope, for them it’s all manly slaps and pass the cigar. Apparently. But I’m not a man, much less a ‘pregnant’ one, so I don’t know what I’m likely to get asked. […]