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Motherhood and madness, points to ponder Ruby Wax style

August 29, 2011 By Ellen

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Filed Under: depression, Edinburgh, mental heath, mother, motherhood

Silent Sunday

August 28, 2011 By Ellen

Filed Under: family, photography, Silent Sunday

I’m bewildered by the world – when will common sense prevail?

August 27, 2011 By Ellen

With signposts like this… Have you seen the news this week? Yes. What’s going on? The more I see, the more I do that “this is crazy, what’s the world coming to?” shrug thing. It started well enough with the unflappable Alex Crawford reporting on the rebels’ arrival in Tripoli. She provided the best coverage […]

Filed Under: Baby P, Is it me?, journalism, Libya, Lockerbie, Naked Rambler, newspapers

Are you a miser of sleep or a squanderer?

August 26, 2011 By Ellen

I said sleep… Since Boy One appeared nearly 12 years ago, I’ve been lucky to have had lots of opportunity to study the phenomena of sleep deprivation. Before then, I was confident arrogant enough to think that anyone who moaned of lack of sleep was a wimp. I had stayed up all night to party, […]

Filed Under: family, sleep

Baroque to the future – win an excuse for some me-time

August 25, 2011 By Ellen

Mauve-r the moon with this one Tell me how you get some time to yourself and you could win a beautiful Victoria Jill baroque bath bottle. Today I have to go to the car tyre fixing garage (I’m sure it has a proper name but I don’t know it) to get my slow puncture sorted […]

Filed Under: competition, giveaway, me time

A DAFTS idea, but it might just work…

August 23, 2011 By Ellen

Brothers in harmony! Cue drums, trumpets and fireworks. I’m going to introduce the child food reprocessing system to knock your socks off. It’s called DAFTS the Dinnertime Automatic Food Transfer System. Actually it’s the brain-child of my marvellous sister and she’s a health care professional, therefore, knows stuff. Let me explain the idea behind DAFTS. […]

Filed Under: brother, family, food, silly, toddler

Twitter – break the news, not hearts

August 22, 2011 By Ellen

Twitter is a fanatic source of quick information. This evening, for example, the Panther of News and I were jolted from our Sunday night bubblegum telly by a tweet about rebels streaming into Libya. With one eye I watched Alex Crawford of Sky give her compelling and courageous report from the streets of Tripoli and […]

Filed Under: journalism, newspapers, social media, twitter

Silent Sunday

August 21, 2011 By Ellen

Filed Under: family, photography, Silent Sunday

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