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288/365 What happens when your family is a well-oiled machine?

October 15, 2013 By Ellen

No really? What happens, because I have no flipping idea. I picked up Boy Three and Boy Two from nursery today with high hopes of a freshly cooked supper and a contented evening. Boy Two was in the holiday afterschool club – not ACTUAL nursery – under huge sufferance and in a big strop. But boy Three was […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, brothers, chips, parenting, slow cooker, teen, temper

287/365 It’s been a long day…

October 14, 2013 By Ellen

And I haven’t been anywhere near walking in the autumnal woods. So I suppose you could call it cheating, but it’s where I’d rather be. 

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos

Guest post: Romans and relaxation in Cyprus

October 14, 2013 By Ellen

Katie-Belle is the travel-loving and cakeaholic blogger who usually writes over at delightso.me, where you can keep up with her travels and misadventures in baking. She’s reporting on her trip to Cyprus. She’s probably the exception rather than the rule. But my little girl is already something of a history buff. She already knows more […]

Filed Under: Cyprus, travel

285/365 Nut waving but drowning…

October 12, 2013 By Ellen

Clearly I don’t literally mean the waving of nuts – edible or otherwise. That would be silly. It just seems like a bit of a busy kind of week, the kind when it’s been all about paddling like fury just to stay in one place. You know the sort. It’s been the Panther’s first full week in […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, busy, football, housework, juggle, scouts, work life balance

284/365 Things I’m learning from The Woman In White

October 11, 2013 By Ellen

I wonder when Wilkie Collins wrote The Woman in White in 1860 that more than 150 years later it would still be being read. I’d be fairly sure he had no idea that in 2013 a woman would be able to listen to it being read to her, via headphones from her phone as she […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, book group, books, reading, The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins

283/365 You know your children are affected by blogging when…

October 10, 2013 By Ellen

They look mildly interested when the postie comes in case it’s something for them to try. They learn to open things without tearing the packaging “in case they have to go back”. If something goes wrong their first suggestion isn’t the emergency services or trading standards, they say “blog about it mum”. They measure your pride or otherwise […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, blogging, children

He says – she says on the subject of saving money

October 10, 2013 By Ellen

I’ve been on a bit of a crusade to save energy and money lately – not out of choice, what with us being part of the nouveau pauvre and all this talk of economic recovery not having made an impression on my wallet yet. The Panther, being from Yorkshire, is known to keep a firm […]

Filed Under: energy, Frugal fun, infographic, Panther, power, saving money

Mountain Warehouse Big Splash Competition

October 9, 2013 By Ellen

My friends at Mountain Warehouse have asked me to tell you about a competition they’re running. It’s a chance to win a pair of wellies every day it rains this month by simply posting (on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest or the fridge door) a picture of splashing. Here’s one I took earlier of Boy One. If […]

Filed Under: boots, competition, mountain warehouse, puddle, splash

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