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Spookily in disguise as a proper parenting blogger

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 Did you have a good Halloween? I spent mine in an MLitt class with a lot of poetry in it followed by some chasing around the county collecting and dropping off children.    The poetry has the potential to be very scary – or not. Just when I think I’ve got the measure of it and […]

Things I try to care about, but don’t

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Distress and outrage I can do. The plight of people in Aleppo, exactly how awful TalkTalk’s broadband service has been and the fact we don’t have equal pay for women. These things I care about. However, I’m feeling somewhat out of step with my fellow man this week as there are one or two issues […]

How writing is like climbing a mountain

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This month I’ve written or edited almost 60,000 words. I only know this because I use the rather helpful Grammarly to check that I haven’t missed some hideously glaring error. It also, handily, strips off all the different fonts and styling you end up with when you’ve been doing lots of cut and pasting (cutting […]

Out of my mind – what I think

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In the same way that this photo was supposed to be a brilliant silhouette of my family against the water, this post is supposed to be a sharp and funny view of the world. Here are a few of the musings I just knew you couldn’t live without. Get a grip everyone. Earlier this week […]