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This week’s daft questions and it’s only Tuesday

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This week I have been asked some special questions. Really special. In no particular order: Please can I have an iPad for my birthday? (Boy Two)Can I have a subscription to a cake icing and sugarcraft partwork? (Boy One – talking about cake icing is a current obsession)Did you know that when you get to puberty you […]

Total Wipeout – the domestic version

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Of course there’s a monkey on the light fitting This morning has been something of a trial. Properly testing the little ship of equanimity I’d sailed out of my yoga weekend in. Huge gusts of crabbiness were threatening to dump me in the ocean of irritability.Then I realised. It’s just a game. Total Wipeout for […]

Silent Sunday

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Be adventurous with your child’s name – it’ll make all the difference

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[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buW66mgTXTY?rel=0] Do you imagine great things for your children? Of course you do. Your little darling is going to make history, be famous and probably save the planet. How about if they were brave and heroic adventurers? Marvellous. But unless you have given them the right name, you’ve blown it already.  You see, this […]