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Butterflies, speaking Scots and the pouch of doom

February 3, 2010 By Ellen

Things I’ve learned from my children today. Butterflies taste with their feet. Boy Two sneaked into bed with me at stupid o’clock this morning. “Mum I’m going to tell you something you don’t already know.” I quite often ask the boys to tell me something I don’t know in an attempt to get them talking. […]

Filed Under: baby-led weaning, poem, Poetry please, Scotland, Scots, things I learned from my children today, weaning

The Golden Journey to Samarkand

November 15, 2009 By Ellen

THE GOLDEN JOURNEY TO SAMARKAND We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall goAlways a little further: it may beBeyond that last blue mountain barred with snow,Across that angry or that glimmering sea, White on a throne or guarded in a caveThere lives a prophet who can understandWhy men were born: but surely we are brave,Who […]

Filed Under: poem, today's thought

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