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What do you read in the lav?

June 4, 2017 By Ellen

Not long ago I was chuffed to discover that this ‘umble blog was the lavvy reading of choice at the home of a pal. For the smartphone generation littlest-room reading has no limits – with your pants around your ankles you can google yourself to where ever you fancy. Is it me, or is the […]

Going for a wee

May 4, 2017 By Ellen

Then off you go, it’s first on the left. by Vrangtante Brun via Flickr OK. Better now? It’s not that kind of wee I want to talk about. It’s the wee “we”, a pronoun – first person plural. Clearly it’s a very useful little world. “We are a grandmother,” wouldn’t have the same whiff of […]

Family communication breakthrough to rival FaceTime

April 22, 2012 By Ellen

Rudimentary experiment How are communications in your house? Here at the Palace of Bundance, things can be a bit patchy. However, never fear, I have been working on a cost-effective solution that will revolutionise domestic communications in homes around the world. For example, I often experience communication failure in areas of domestic order restoration, footwear […]

Sticking point

November 2, 2011 By Ellen

At the moment everything in my house is sticky. Boy Three is exploring drinking vessels. He is combining this with experiments about the properties of various liquids and courageous charting of all quarters of his home. Consequently, many of the most unexpected places are horribly adhesive. My steering wheel, the keyboard, my hair, my shoes, […]

Put the lid on the toothpaste tube… just once

January 14, 2011 By Ellen

One of the things from the – seemingly endless – list of things they don’t tell you when you become a parent, is there will be some things your children will not learn, no matter what. Instead, you will repeat requests for the apparently simple tasks to be done again and again. You will also […]