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Is love in the air today?

February 13, 2010 By Ellen

Roses are red, crocodiles are snappy, He might not be perfect,but my Panther makes me happy… OK so it’s not going to win any literary prizes, but it’s sort of the spirit of the day. Eh, Snookums? Fluffy bunny-bum? A dozen red cliches and some scratchy pants.Valentine’s Day is clearly a load of commercialised tosh […]

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How I’m Turning Into My Mother

February 7, 2010 By Ellen

Other things I’ve learned. I’m definitely Turning Into My Mother. Today I was pondering the items to add to my shopping list and considering that I probably should just by twice as much of the things that won’t go off – toothpaste, shampoo, maple syrup.“What’s wrong with that?” you may ask. On the face of […]

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Things I learned from my children today

November 16, 2009 By Ellen

I’ve learned that Venice is made up of 118 islands. “That’s 118 the same as in the advert, mummy.” I’ve learned that a PSP is nothing like any of the other games machines we already own. It’s the only one you can play LittleBigPlanet on apparently. I’ve learned that there’s nothing wrong at all in […]

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Panther’s birthday

January 22, 2009 By Ellen

It was the Panther’s birthday yesterday – hard to believe when he looks so fresh-faced too. This year his heart’s desire was a Wii, so he was a very happy camper when Boy One and Boy Two bounded in with his parcels. Hours later I finally spoke to him and by then he was mad-eyed […]

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A little leafy loveliness

October 21, 2008 By Ellen

It was family gathering time again. Another 65th birthday and the amassing of four children, their spouses and children plus three further children, their brats, bumps and other halves.It felt like heaven to let EasyJet take us away from storm-lashed Renfrewshire and set us down in Bristol, where the sun was shining. (And you don’t […]

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