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Review: Emeli Sande’s Our Version of Events

May 11, 2012 By Ellen

Music, yeah. It’s nice, innit? Generally that’s the extent of my commentary on contemporary choonz. These days, the music is what happens to make it past fairly constant Radio 4 and whatever the kids/Panther of News is playing. I’m just as likely to be jigging around to One Direction singing What Makes You Beautiful on iCarly […]

Peer Gynt: a little salve for your soul

May 10, 2012 By Ellen

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Little rant: how Xbox LIVE will try to mug you in your own sitting room

May 10, 2012 By Ellen

Hamesucken. Wonderful word, it is from Scots law and refers to someone being assaulted in their own home. It nearly happened right here tonight, but luckily I think I managed to evade a serious mugging. Boy Two had nagged me for days about the new version of Minecraft for the Xbox and could he spend some of […]

Is it time for a change?

May 9, 2012 By Ellen

Alert: Navels may be inspected. There’s been a little voice in my head for a while. (No, not that voice. I don’t like to talk about that one.)It keeps saying: “It’s time for a change. Do something different. Go on. Get on with it.”Then I came across a post at Kate On Thin Ice for mums […]

Banished body hair is the (arm) pits

May 8, 2012 By Ellen

Do you shave, wax or use a nasty, smelly cream? I’ll wager that if you are an adult woman, you are bound to do one of them. And have done hundreds of times since you first reached the shores of puberty. I know some of us are inclined to be somewhat lax in this regard […]

Ben Nevis: Soreen to new heights

May 7, 2012 By Ellen

It all began at the tail end of last year. Half way up a hill with Fionaoutdoors we suddenly realised that neither of us had climbed Ben Nevis. Something of an omission, we agreed, shortly before deciding that walking into blizzard and gale had ceased being fun. Solitude on the Ben So a plan was hatched. […]

Silent Sunday

May 6, 2012 By Ellen

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No smoke without… smoke

May 2, 2012 By Ellen

Here’s a sort of dilemma or, at least, a head-scratching kind of tale. For reasons too tedious, convoluted and cross-making to recount the chariot of the Panther of News is temporarily indisposed. (The Skoda is knackered, undergoing repairs.) Thus I had to call a taxi to collect Boy Three from nursery the other day. I […]

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