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This magical May

May 7, 2017 By Ellen

What’s been going on?  I love May. Not just because it’s birthday month, but because of sunshine and sharp cool mornings. This May is shaping up to be a cracker with blue skies and freckles all over the place. Mayday, mayday, mayday. On May Day I was troubling the airwaves as the guest on a […]

Filed Under: blogging, boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: BBC, election, hospital, May, Personal Best, politics, Radio Scotland, RAH, selfies, spring

Going for a wee

May 4, 2017 By Ellen

Then off you go, it’s first on the left.  by Vrangtante Brun via Flickr OK. Better now?  It’s not that kind of wee I want to talk about. It’s the wee “we”, a pronoun – first person plural.  Clearly it’s a very useful little world. “We are a grandmother,” wouldn’t have the same whiff of […]

Filed Under: grammar, internet, Is it me?, other things I have learned, pronoun, toilet, we Tagged With: language, rant, The World, wee

On a (nearly) 50-year-old mind…

April 28, 2017 By Ellen

How can I possibly be 50? 40 was old enough and that was only 10 minutes ago. They’re right, though. You don’t feel any different inside. Can I pick 28? That was a great age. Between puppy fat and baby fat! So, if nothing has changed in the last decade, how come the all the […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: 50, ageing, birthday, getting old, in my life, My Life, on my mind, women

I’d rule the world, if I could remember where I put the instructions

April 28, 2017 By Ellen

What is it? That thing. The important thing, that I have to do today, before it’s too late. A writing thing, or… I know. An email. That’s it. I’ll have sent myself a message. I do that sometimes when it’s vital The Thing doesn’t slip the net. Because I know I read all of the […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: busy weekend, family, forgetting, humour, in the world, memory, My Life, on my mind, Something happened in my life

Brougham Castle not on the hill but worth a visit nonetheless

April 3, 2017 By Ellen

  Have you noticed how Ed Sheeran is playing in every single public space across the land? I’ve no idea how he’s done it, but he turns up in more places than Lego bricks. He was even playing on the Bull in the Archers the other day. His Castle On The Hill is brilliant – […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, Brougham Castle, Castle on the hill, Cumbria, Ed Sheeran, family, holiday, parenting, Penrith, sister, Something happened in my life

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