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What do you do with your underwear?

April 17, 2017 By Ellen

No not mine, everyone else’s. The male people in this house each have a pair of buttocks. Aged variously seven, fifteen, seventeen and fifty, the bums also range in size. Therefore, each arse owns a selection of pants. At either end of the derrière spectrum it’s very easy to tell whose is whose, it’s the […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, boys, family, Laundry, pants, socks, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: laundry, pants, socks

Airing my dirty laundry just about everywhere

May 30, 2015 By Ellen

It began with a most insignificant click. Then the lights went out and it was apparent – after several optimistic attempts to ignore all evidence – that the washing machine was, in fact, a dampening and flooding the floor machine.  There are some definitive parenting moments. The first steps, the gummy smiles, the first time […]

Filed Under: Laundry, My Life, Uncategorized, work life balance, working mum Tagged With: laundry, washing machine

195/365 It’s good to be home…

July 14, 2013 By Ellen

Ah. Once you’ve established that your fears that your house will be a smouldering shell are unfounded and you’ve found the key, there’s nothing like opening your own front door after a week or two away. Or in our case, stepping over the solidified milk – dairy delivery people, prepare yourselves, we’ll be having words […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier, Laundry

154/365 Laundry… awash with inspiration

June 3, 2013 By Ellen

A move towards order, folded things anyway… see my nice PJ bottoms on the pile there… Yuk, it smells as bad as you’d expect. It is apparently self-replenishing The big picture – note instructions in big letters on the dryer door. How so many smalls can make a big… It’s the children’s art gallery too… […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, Laundry

If Sundays aren’t best, am I a bad mother?

October 31, 2011 By Ellen

Every other Sunday the Panther of News  prowls off to lead his editorial pack in their search for fresh prey. This means that I am alone in the Palace of Bundance with the Boys. Now you’d have thought that this was something of a treat. My lads all to myself. However, lately these days of […]

Filed Under: aspergers, boys, confession time, family, Halloween, Is it me?, Laundry, motherhood

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