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Discount vouchers – a conspiracy?

November 9, 2009 By Ellen

Hard times, I know. So that’s why I’ve been collecting vouchers to save squillions on stuff. You know, loyalty card rewards and those printed on all the new baby information leaflets that have flopped through the letter box kindly offering me advice since boy Three was born.See there’s a big stack here on my desk […]

Filed Under: Is it me?, saving money, today's thought, vouchers

Sting, what have you done?

November 5, 2009 By Ellen

Pouf!That was another fantasy vanishing in a puff of smoke leaving nothing but the faint smell of bacon and a few grains of glitter. In 1980 Sting was the schoolteacher turned rockstar who had an army of teenage fans – and I marched among them.He sang ‘don’t stand so close to me’ and we were […]

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Grief – the goldfish, sequins and colander theory

November 1, 2009 By Ellen

Did I mention that my brother died in the middle of the summer?Horrible, shocking and tragic. I have a lovely supportive family and enough true friends, but there comes a point where you just know you can’t keep telling them the same thing. Life, like they say, goes on. That’s partly what blogging’s about – […]

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As thin as a …?

October 24, 2009 By Ellen

In my house the answer is ‘sausage’, apparently. The Panther of News and I this week celebrated our third anniversary. Hurrah! To mark the occasion I gave him a thing of wonder that is a Wii Fit. Boys One and Two were quite excited by this news. And I was very pleased to hear Boy […]

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The Rainy Day

October 8, 2009 By Ellen

The Rainy Dayby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust more dead leaves fall,. And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold and dark and dreary. It rains […]

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