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Deadline for a bicycling beaver…

May 30, 2015 By Ellen

Way past bedtime on a wet Monday evening and the Panther and I were to be found running up and down a slight slope in the park, him in his work trousers.  Not, of course, that we had found a new exercise fad. In fact, the Panther was putting more effort into shouting instructions and […]

Filed Under: boys, family, My Life, scouting, scouts, Uncategorized Tagged With: Beavers, learning to ride a bike, scouts, Something happened in my life

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

Things I’ve learned from family camping in the winter…

March 30, 2015 By Ellen

  The bucket list: A lengthy, specific list of wonderful, exciting and exotic things I’m intending to do before I die.     One of the things on it is not ‘go camping in winter in Lanarkshire’. So why, then, was I to be found snuggling down under canvas in a field on the outskirts […]

Filed Under: camp, camping, Cumbernauld, family, family fun, My Life, S'mores, World of Wings Tagged With: camping, world of wings

Tulips from Berlin – a love story

September 13, 2011 By Ellen

You made me think of floral clogs The Panther of News has been aprowl, far and wide… well Berlin actually. And when he came back this is what he brought me.  No, your eyes don’t deceive. He’s given me clog-shaped slippers made out of a rather super tulip print fabric. They have a cosy green […]

Filed Under: My Life, Panther, presents Tagged With: family, marriage, presents, romance

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