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Why’s it all going wrong at once?

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The Panther and I have decided that we must never go to bed again on the night of an important vote. The night before last it went like this: “Let’s hope it’s not like the EU referendum night and we wake up to something horrible.” “Fingers crossed.” So, clearly, in order to avoid it happening […]

This mother’s job

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“Will we be on time?” Boy Two glances anxiously at the car click. It’s the weekend and we are driving to a snowboarding lesson. Instead of a calm reassurance, the poor boy gets a bit of a rant and then a lecture. The thing is – he knows when we’ve to be there and how […]

Spookily in disguise as a proper parenting blogger

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 Did you have a good Halloween? I spent mine in an MLitt class with a lot of poetry in it followed by some chasing around the county collecting and dropping off children.    The poetry has the potential to be very scary – or not. Just when I think I’ve got the measure of it and […]

Middle-aged couple in marriage crisis

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Brad and Angie have split up. Who saw that coming? I’m so sad for the kids. How would you let someone like him go? If they can’t make it – with cheekbones like theirs – what chance have us porridge-faced mortals got? Alternatively, a middle-aged woman like her who seeks divorce and custody of their […]