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Trutex – school uniform goes to the top of the class

July 15, 2016 By Ellen

About this time of year, organized folk start thinking about getting their act together for the forthcoming term. Normal people (the rest of us) pretend it isn’t happening and then hurtle around the shops in a mad flap the day before school goes back, trying to work out why – once again – the only […]

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A holiday less average… Secrets of the typical Brit abroad

July 13, 2016 By Ellen

  Not quite a week and already the tan is fading faster than the sand fly bites. We’ve passed through the usual back-to-normal phases: Good grief it’s great to be home I’m on top of the world and I can do anything. I’m rested, watch me roar. How can there possibly be so much laundry? […]

Filed Under: family, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: Blue Nun, children, family, games, holiday, Review, summer, travel

When we went to Gozo…

July 11, 2016 By Ellen

Less than a week since we came home and already the photos are making me sigh fondly. We went to Gozo on our hols this year, stayed in an Airbnb place and had a ball. Here’s what we learned. If you have to go swimming then have your own pool. Our digs had its own […]

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When is a child not a child?

July 5, 2016 By Ellen

When he’s a teenager. We’re still here enjoying the Maltese sunshine for the last couple of days before that bitter-sweet return home. The comfort of familiarity tempered by the shadows of the boring old grown up stuff that starts looming again. We’ve visited several of the fabulous attractions here – no complaints at all. Not […]

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Gozo: things we’ve learned so far

June 30, 2016 By Ellen

What a lovely place this is – so quite and far from all that Brexitery. Wonderful. It has taken a few days to shake myself free of the holiday torpor. I’d embraced inactivity with such gusto, I was starting to get concerned that my ability to do anything briskly had vanished totally. While not exactly […]

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