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A weekend in Yorkshire without a single pudding

October 13, 2010 By Ellen

Things I learned during our Yorkshire weekend. Money does grow on trees. Or at least it does at places on the Ingleton Falls walk. There are fallen trees with coins banged into the bark. It looks very much like the scales of a reptile. I expect you could find a metaphor there if you look […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, The good things..., Yorkshire

Child Benefit and Barbara Castle

October 6, 2010 By Ellen

Things I learned yesterday morning. Multi-tasking is sometimes strangely satisfying. I took my netbook to the hairdresser so I could work while being remodeled. No guilt whatsoever and the added bonus of not having to discuss my plans for the rest of the day or whether I have started getting ready for Christmas. Barbara Castle […]

Filed Under: Barbara Castle, child benefit, everymum, hair, other things I have learned, STV

Confessions of a born-again flake

October 4, 2010 By Ellen

Can you hear that? It’s not the sound of the as-yet-not-reviewed review copy of the Zingzillas album. No. The strange sound is the noise that standards make when they come crashing to the floor. If I look over my shoulder I can see a woman who was ever so certain how things had to be […]

Filed Under: confession time, zingzillas

Crazy golf: a good wander round a large room spoilt?

October 2, 2010 By Ellen

Things I learned from Boy One’s birthday celebration Different approaches can have the same result. Boy One and his friends I and R – along with Boy Two on a best behavior promise – headed to X-Scape’s Paradise Island Adventure Golf for some birthday fun. My view that adventure golf is an oxymoron did not […]

Filed Under: birthday, Braehead, drink, golf, other things I have learned, Things I've learned from my children.

Glasgow Science Centre is boffin great

September 27, 2010 By Ellen

Things I learned from the Glasgow Science Centre on a Monday holiday. My inner nerd loves to run free. I’m 43 and I like science. There it’s taken me quite a long time to admit it. I liked it at school, always pick a green question at Trivial Pursuit and enjoy sneaking a look at […]

Filed Under: Glasgow Science Centre, other things I have learned, science

Sperm donor ‘scam’: that’s no vulnerable victim, that’s my sister

September 22, 2010 By Ellen

Guest post: Super Sister is furious – she’s irate at the way the case of the men behind Fertility 1st has been portrayed and I agree with her. I don’t see any victims in my family, except, perhaps, my nephew Baby G who can’t now get a genetic sibling. Over to you Super Sister: (Pic: […]

Filed Under: family, Fertility 1st, guest blogger, Super Sister

Busy with the fizzy – brought to you by Sodastream

September 20, 2010 By Ellen

Things we’ve learned from having a go with a SodastreamIt’s really difficult to photograph fizz. The water is so fizzy tiny bubbles leap quite high out of the glass. We tried to take a picture. CO2 is a compound of two oxygen atoms bonded with one carbon. I actually knew this but Boy One is […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review, Sodastream, sponsored post

More blushes from the archives of shame…

September 18, 2010 By Ellen

I’m sitting here blushing. Yes, actually. With a proper red face. I think I’ve got away with it because my colleagues will probably think it’s a hot flush. The reason is a post I wrote this week for Ready for Ten about the funny things parents do – me particularly. I talked about the time […]

Filed Under: Ready For Ten, readyforten, sharing a few secrets, truth

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