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C’mon in Martha, I’ve got a few tips for you

April 3, 2017 By Ellen

A post from the day that Martha Stewart followed me on Twitter seeking household advice, obviously. Today Martha Stewart started to follow me on Twitter. I wondered what interest the former third most powerful woman in America, released prisoner and all-round homemaker might want with me. Then I realised – she’d obviously heard about […]

So sorry about the mess?

June 5, 2016 By Ellen

A little bit of bunting to draw the eye away from everything else… How many times have you said that to visitors? Yeah, me too. Even on the occasional times when there was no mess, no clutter of toys, no cobwebs, no stains, no odd smells and no dust, I said it. Only then I […]

Things I need to teach my children…

January 13, 2014 By Ellen

That’s my Boy Two sewing his own Scout badges on. He looked horrified when I suggested it: “But I don’t know how. I’ve never learned.” “No time like the present,” I said, making room for him at the table. While he – very quickly – got the hang of it, it occurred to me that […]

285/365 Nut waving but drowning…

October 12, 2013 By Ellen

Clearly I don’t literally mean the waving of nuts – edible or otherwise. That would be silly. It just seems like a bit of a busy kind of week, the kind when it’s been all about paddling like fury just to stay in one place. You know the sort. It’s been the Panther’s first full week in […]

How to get the rest of the family to do their share of the chores

May 6, 2013 By Ellen

The rota has landed. Something has been amiss in the Palace of Bundance for some time now. There has been an imbalance in the domestic effort – fairness matrix. In other words, I’m doing all the flipping work and I’m tired of it. I pondered the matter from a feminist point of view for a […]

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