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100 days of blogging

September 17, 2018 By Ellen

Or yet another attempt to get into gear… I’ve been wrestling with my blog lately. Oddly, I’ve allowed all sorts of irrelevant nonsense (feeding children, vanquishing squalor) to get in the way. And this has made me sad. Not the fed children or the less horrid house, but that it doesn’t matter how hard you […]

Filed Under: blogging, other things I have learned Tagged With: #100days, Blogging, creative writing, distraction, writing

14 years at the school gates: what I have learned so far….

September 13, 2018 By Ellen

Update: This was written a couple of years ago – now the baby is in P5 (still cute though).   My baby, he’s all grown up. It doesn’t seem a minute since… Yada yada yada.  You know the stuff – uttered by runny-mascaraed mothers waving children off to school before returning to their bleak and […]

Filed Under: advice, Boy Three, children, family, growing up., other things I have learned, parenthood, primary, school, school gate, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: education, family, in the world, life, parenthood, primary, School, secondary

Things I’ve learned from completing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow

September 11, 2018 By Ellen

That’s it. My life is my own again. I’m an ordinary person rather than a mature student. Last week I handed in the final portfolio of my course and, rather than elation and a heady end-of-terminess, I felt a bit flat, slightly sad and, even, a little empty. It would be very tempting to dive […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: creative process, creative writing, Glasgow, MLitt, study, things I've learned, thinking, University, writing

This week’s edition of the things I’ve learned

July 22, 2018 By Ellen

Urgh. Sunday and I feel like my head is full of mince. Not a hangover, before you ask. No. Just, you know, stuff of little consequence. And a shed-load of things I should be doing – frexample, lining up a new contract, finishing my portfolio (just having a plan isn’t good enough apparently), and unfucking (technical […]

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The naked truth about underwear

July 19, 2018 By Ellen

Pants, knickers, scanties, undies or (not-so) smalls. Whatever you call them, they are a pretty important part of any woman’s outfit – especially if that woman is significant in years and/or size. While you might have thought that such commonplace attire is so familiar that they couldn’t hold any secrets, you’d be wrong. These unmentionables […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: bras, knickers, pants, truth, underwear

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