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Bye then, Nat. It was fun.

March 11, 2010 By Ellen

Things I’ve learned from my brother. Charles Nathan Arnison 1971 – 2009. The waah game. This is where you ask someone a question to which the answer is blindingly obvious. If they take your question seriously then you say “waaah”, and basically you win. If, however, you spot a question designed to trap you then […]

Filed Under: brother, family, grief, other things I have learned

Soft play – nothing soft or playful here

March 7, 2010 By Ellen

Other things I’ve learned today. Whoever coined the expression soft play was wrong – so far wide of the mark they must have been having a laugh. But I’m glad someone was, because I certainly wasn’t. Today, out of idleness and a really petty attempt to get my own back at Boy Three (So you’re […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, parties, soft play

Things I don’t give a hoot about but really should

March 6, 2010 By Ellen

I read a blog this week and it got me thinking. It was a gleeful and energetic list of the things that A Brit In Lapland couldn’t give a fig about.There weren’t too many things I could think of celebrating not caring about – except perhaps football and what other people have on their iPods. […]

Filed Under: confession time, lists, other things I have learned

Inner children come out to play in the snow only not in a good way

March 1, 2010 By Ellen

Other things I’ve learned. They say that snow brings out the inner child, well that was certainly true in our street today. Where we live there’s generally plenty of space for everyone. The street was built before developers realised that if you rationed parking spots then you could wedge another house in. So, normally, we […]

Filed Under: neighbours, other things I have learned, snow

Relative age, telly pioneer and a bad smell

February 21, 2010 By Ellen

Other things I’ve learned. Lionel Jeffries was six years younger than Dick Van Dyke who played son Caractacus Potts to his Grandpa Potts. Lionel died this week. John Logie Baird made the first long-distance television broadcast in 1927 from the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. The floors of the hotel are, apparently, still marked by […]

Filed Under: housework, hygiene, other things I have learned

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