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If you’re happy and you know it answer any of the four questions that rate how you feel about yesterday

May 5, 2011 By Ellen

It was raining in Glasgow and it seemed to me that motorists were deliberately hitting those oily puddles as people walked past. They wouldn’t be trying to soak a passer-by, would they? For once I didn’t get a splashing. And I arrived on time at the Marriot Hotel where the British Psychological Society was holding […]

Filed Under: David Cameron, happiness, motherhood

Put the lid on the toothpaste tube… just once

January 14, 2011 By Ellen

One of the things from the – seemingly endless – list of things they don’t tell you when you become a parent, is there will be some things your children will not learn, no matter what. Instead, you will repeat requests for the apparently simple tasks to be done again and again. You will also […]

Filed Under: boys, housework, in my day, manners, mother, motherhood, mummy, toilet

Ladies who rock

March 10, 2010 By Ellen

Just a quick one to mark a couple of wonderful women who need a big hurrah from the blogosphere. Lovely Laura. I work with this lady and she rocks. She’s smart and funny and she’s in a band. She has that kind of sense of style that allows her to wear quirky and vintage and […]

Filed Under: motherhood, things I've learned at work, Wonderful women

just a mum…

August 1, 2007 By Ellen

Instant karmaFeminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking. Polly Toynbee in the Guardian, January 19, 1987Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);

Filed Under: equality, feminism, Marx, motherhood, mummy, Polly Toynbee, today's thought

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