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Family adventures: ghyll scrambling in Cumbria

October 12, 2015 By Ellen

It would be fair to say that, as a family, we are something of a mixed bag. We comprise the bold, the well-balanced, the dumpy, the wobbly, the gung-ho, the cautious, exercisers and those who tend to the horizontal. And there’s only five of us. Add that to the fact that Boy Three is six […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: adventure, boys, busy weekend, children, Cumbria, Eden Valley Adventures, family, ghyll scramble, Review, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, wetsuit

The 15 biggest time-wasters of modern life

October 4, 2015 By Ellen

Progress is great, isn’t it? Labour-saving devices all over the place – you name it and there’s a machine to do it for you. Push a button and your clothes get clean, flick a switch and the dishes get done, turn a dial for dinner and the keypad for exactly the kind of coffee that […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, Uncategorized Tagged With: humour, in the world, list, My Life, Something happened in my life, time-waster

National Museum of Scotland – brilliant but too big

September 28, 2015 By Ellen

Yet another phase of Boy One’s forthcoming 16th birthday took us to Edinburgh and the huge museum on Chambers Street. He’s into history – period irrelevant. Boy Three is doing the Celts at school and he was chuffed. Boy Two is largely interested in dramatic sighs, sneering and eye-rolling, venue irrelevant. And so we set […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: Beavers, birthday, boys, children, Darien, Edinburgh, education, My Life, National Museum of Scotland, Something happened in my life

M&S exec a mother at 50 – so what?

August 22, 2015 By Ellen

Front pages this week were gasping to reveal how Marks and Sparks’ exec Laura Wade-Gery was about to go off on maternity leave at – shock – the age of 50! Congratulations to her, marvellous new. However, while it’ll shake her life to the core, I’ve no idea what the announcement is doing on the […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: feminism, in the world, Sexism

What’s your tattoo story?

August 17, 2015 By Ellen

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Another Saturday, another tattoo parlour. Oh yes. You see how I say that like I hang out in them all the time, though I’d like to. Not least because there are so many stories there. Few people get a tattoo without Good Reason. It’s not like pretty shoes or something a celebrity had on on […]

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