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Things I’m very pleased to have learned

August 30, 2010 By Ellen

Photo: Top I learned how play is as important as work. Bottom I learned how the round world is drawn on flat maps and here’s how I tried to explain Mercator projection to Boy One. While I have learned neither to count my chickens nor speak too soon I’m going to risk it and say […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned, parties

Grammar, birthday blues and gang behaviour

August 25, 2010 By Ellen

Things I’ve learned from my children today Pic: It’s for you If one child is having fun winding me up, others will join him. Boy Three has already learned that joining in with his brothers’ high jinks is more fun than, for example, sitting nicely and eating supper. What I can’t find the answer to […]

Filed Under: birthday, boys, brother, grammar, parties, Things I've learned from my children., wordy wonders, writing

Soft play – nothing soft or playful here

March 7, 2010 By Ellen

Other things I’ve learned today. Whoever coined the expression soft play was wrong – so far wide of the mark they must have been having a laugh. But I’m glad someone was, because I certainly wasn’t. Today, out of idleness and a really petty attempt to get my own back at Boy Three (So you’re […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, parties, soft play

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