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Review: Toucan Box for hands-on fun

June 11, 2012 By Ellen

I’m rubbish at crafts with the kids. I can’t ever think of what to do and we never have the right stuff if I am ever inspired.  Glitter makes me twitch and I’m so ham-fisted things never look the way we hope they will. So when I was offered a ToucanBox to try out we seemed […]

Filed Under: boys, craft, review, Toucan Box, ToucanBox

Silent Sunday

June 10, 2012 By Ellen

 

Filed Under: boys, football, gala day, photography, Silent Sunday, village

Saturday is caption day

June 9, 2012 By Ellen

Mammasaurus has a link-up on her blog for Saturday caption posts. Here’s mine. What’s the caption for this photo?Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);

Filed Under: caption competition, crocodile, Crocs, mamsaurus, photography

Guest review – Anya reads Blogging For Happiness

June 8, 2012 By Ellen

  Anya from Older Single Mum   The very lovely Anya from Older Single Mum has kindly reviewed my book for my blog. Here’s what she said.     Ellen’s book starts by expounding upon a series of crippling personal events and she goes on to explain how and why blogging helped her to recover. […]

Filed Under: Anya, blog, blogging for happiness, book review, Older Single Mum, writing

Surprise party – just what you wanted?

June 7, 2012 By Ellen

Finishing touches to the cake While the rest of the nation appeared to be winding themselves up for a frenzy of red white and blue bakery items, something else was going on Edinburgh.A small crowd was gathering in a city hotel to celebrate my Super Sister’s fortieth birthday. (I know, I know I barely look […]

Filed Under: birthday, Edinburgh, family, sister, surprise party

Bitdefender: the review with nothing to report

June 6, 2012 By Ellen

Can you see the elephant? Thought not. (Andrew McFarlane ) There’s a joke that goes “why do elephants paint their toenails red?” “I don’t know, why do elephants paint their toenails red?” “So they can hide in cherry trees.” “But I’ve never seen an elephant in a cherry tree…” “See it works.” That’s a little […]

Filed Under: antivirus, Bitdefender, computer, internet, review, security, softwear

Is there a lesson to learn from a sauce-y photo?

June 5, 2012 By Ellen

This is what my middle son, thinks I do on my blog. A small, crumpled sachet of tomato sauce on a cafe table. Residents of the Palace of Bundance were away for a couple of days near Dunoon at Argyll Holidays Hunters Quay site. And lovely it was too. We were there to review it for the […]

Filed Under: Argyll Holidays, blog, Dunoon, family, Hunters Quay., images, photography, photos.

Father’s Day: don’t get him socks again

June 4, 2012 By Ellen

Not in the least bit cheesy So Father’s Day looms – Sunday, June 17 in case you care.  There is a school of thought that says it’s just commercial nonsense created by the greetings card and novelty sock industries.  It can feel a bit like that when every retail outlet starts to remind us about […]

Filed Under: cheese board, father's day gifts, gift, Handpicked Collection., man., present, slate

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