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No regrets on Mother’s Day… or any day

March 15, 2017 By Ellen

As Mother’s Day looms again – I thought it was time to give this post another airing. How did your mothering go? Are you still in the midst of it, or is it mostly behind you? Were you a success today?   How did you do? Were you any good?    Clearly a successful parenting […]

Filed Under: family, mother's day, motherhood, mums, other things I have learned, parenthood, parenting, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, children, Mother's Day, Mothering Sunday, parenting, women, working parent

Things women are supposed to like but don’t really

March 9, 2017 By Ellen

My son – I’ll bet you don’t give a hoot Years ago I had a boyfriend whose mother used to feed me ice cream, gallons of it. I learned to greet each huge bowl of vanilla with convincing enthusiasm as I slurped it down. I can’t remember where it started, but she believed I adored […]

Filed Under: 50 Shades of Gray, Brad Pitt, children, ice cream, kittens, men, other things I have learned, puppies, women Tagged With: children, cup cakes, feminism, humour, ice cream, Review, vagina, women

What’s been going on this week

March 3, 2017 By Ellen

March already and I’m still picking pine needles from between the floorboards. Best thing to do for World Book Day? … buy a book and read it It’s World Book Day today and all over the country parents are tearing their hair out at the unreasonable costume demands this causes. Mercifully, the head teacher at […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, creative writing, feminism, Glasgow, humour, in my life, MLitt, on my mind, writing

Change, Change, Change… Change of Life

February 24, 2017 By Ellen

What happens when you trap almost 500 middle-aged women into a confined space for a couple of hours? Wherever you are on the oestrogen spectrum, you’d be inclined to think that the outcome would be, to say the least, tetchy. Especially if some of the women had had their gin confiscated. But you’d be wrong. […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: Beacon, feminism, Greenock, heat, hormones, humour, in my life, menopause, My Life, Review, something happened in my world, song, Theatre, women

A fine bed

February 21, 2017 By Ellen

A poem inspired by Fionaoutdoors and her adventure in the furniture shop.  A fine bed It will last 20 years, they said. This bed. Like a galleon, strong enough to sail through your stormy nights, safely to the dawns. The wood got ready in forests. Sprouting and branching while you were still rolling through the […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing, other things I have learned, Write, writing Tagged With: creative writing, fun, in my life, in the world, poem, weekend, writing

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