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Bogie man alert, what would you do?

November 17, 2010 By Ellen

I’m feeling a slightly uneasy wind blowing around the Palace of Bundance at the moment. I’m in something of a quandary. A couple of weeks ago a child was attacked in the village next to ours. After school this 12-year-old was forced from the pavement onto the cycletrack that runs through the area. By all […]

Filed Under: aspergers, bogie man, family, threat

Introducing Housework Half Hour and why I should take up curling

November 6, 2010 By Ellen

Boy One thinks I should be in the Olympics – the curling team, no less. I’d like to be flattered by his assessment of my athletic prowess despite never having curled in my life, not even my hair (well OK there was once with a spiral perm, but I’m trying to forget that). “I’ve never […]

Filed Under: family, housework, housework half hour, sexism

Halloween a few treats and some trickiness

October 30, 2010 By Ellen

Things I’ve learned from my children. In a week in which I’ve been so busy I’ve spent more time writing about my children than actually in their company, I still learned a few things. Mask manufacturers don’t accommodate spectacles. Thomas Cook travels further than you think. Boys One and Two were discussing explorers over breakfast. […]

Filed Under: family, Halloween, Things I've learned from my children.

Happy Anniversary Panther

October 21, 2010 By Ellen

Four years ago today the Panther of News made an honest woman of me… or something. Can you believe it, four years? I’m rather pleased with my choice, I think I picked well. The Panther is a fine fellow, getting finer as time goes on. There’s a picture on the wall in the hall, just […]

Filed Under: anniversary, family, love, Panther

Sperm donor ‘scam’: that’s no vulnerable victim, that’s my sister

September 22, 2010 By Ellen

Guest post: Super Sister is furious – she’s irate at the way the case of the men behind Fertility 1st has been portrayed and I agree with her. I don’t see any victims in my family, except, perhaps, my nephew Baby G who can’t now get a genetic sibling. Over to you Super Sister: (Pic: […]

Filed Under: family, Fertility 1st, guest blogger, Super Sister

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