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International Women’s Day – what does making it happen really mean?

March 8, 2015 By Ellen

A Sunday ponder: International Women’s Day. What’s it all about? Of course I’m in support, why wouldn’t I be? Obviously, it’s important and, without doubt, the rights of women, their safety and equality should be at the top of everyone’s agenda. There are women and girls in the world who can’t get education, who are […]

What the Glasgow bin lorry tragedy might tell us

December 22, 2014 By Ellen

Costly beyond imagining, but there must be a lesson in there. There has to be. This morning I was feeling properly meh, my big Boys are away and the Panther of News is working this Christmas. I’m having a self-pity party with a Santa hat on it. At lunch-time I had an appointment at a tattoo […]

Jai is for….

October 14, 2014 By Ellen

Jam, jelly, jumping, juggernauts and jackboot.It’s also for yet another almighty row with Boy Three. “A B C D E F L M N O P X Y Z,” he trills jauntily. Then stops: “Where’s Q. I missed Q. It’s my favourite. Quickly queen.”Sensing the volume of our outing was about to rise with his dropping […]

Glasgow 2014: My hopes for the legacy

August 3, 2014 By Ellen

It started with a heat wave and ended with a monsoon. Glasgow 2014: the party’s more or less over. As I write Kylie (or someone who sounds an awful lot like her) is apparently doing a sound-check for her appearance at the closing ceremony. I’m a bit sad it’s all over – although the neglected bits […]

Signs you’ve embraced the spirit of the Commonwealth Games.

July 29, 2014 By Ellen

Slap bang in the middle of the Commonwealth Games it feels like it’s been going on for ages, in fact sometimes it’s hard to imagine life without it… or maybe it’s just me. Here are some signs you’ve got the Glasgow 2014 bug: It has become entirely normal to spend your life with a label around your […]