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March 5, 2010 By Ellen

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a dirty protest, being prepared and a bit of a worry

March 3, 2010 By Ellen

Things I’ve learned from my children today. I know how 60-Minute Makeover team might have felt when faced with the Maze Prison. Boy Three is both confidently pulling himself up and very excited about having a bath. So as the bath runs he’s happy to stand and peer in at the water. Tonight he was […]

Filed Under: things I learned from my children today

Dial S for subtext

March 2, 2010 By Ellen

I’ve been listening in to a few phone calls this week – you could say it’s something of a hobby. One of my earliest memories is lying in bed listening to my mother on the phone and trying to figure out who she’s talking to and what the topic is.It occurred to me that some […]

Filed Under: alex salmond, childcare, gender roles, phone calls

Inner children come out to play in the snow only not in a good way

March 1, 2010 By Ellen

Other things I’ve learned. They say that snow brings out the inner child, well that was certainly true in our street today. Where we live there’s generally plenty of space for everyone. The street was built before developers realised that if you rationed parking spots then you could wedge another house in. So, normally, we […]

Filed Under: neighbours, other things I have learned, snow

Hairy emotions, messy paintings and the booger boogaloo

March 1, 2010 By Ellen

Things I’ve learned from my children today. I’d like to stop the march of hormones. The other day when Boy One was sharing a bath with Boy Three – generally a noisy and splashy affair enjoyed by all – I spotted something. It was a tuft of what was unmistakably pubic hair. Nooo. My beautiful […]

Filed Under: art, things I learned from my children today

Phew what a talker

February 24, 2010 By Ellen

Newspaper rules. Have you ever wondered why some stories get in the papers and some don’t? Who decides we’re interested in Cheryl Cole, Katie Price and Prince William this week? Well, news folk will say it’s because the public is interested – or even, more pompously, it’s in the public interest which isn’t the same […]

Filed Under: internet, newspapers, social media, the internet, wordy wonders

Changing bag bomb, bottoms and some more chemistry

February 23, 2010 By Ellen

Things I’ve learned from my children today. When dirty clothes come back from the childminder inside three plastic bags this is no pass the parcel. Open with great caution. Arse is the funniest word… ever. Watching The Mummy Returns, Izzy (mad flying machine driver in the manner of that chap in Mad Max) says: “Everytime […]

Filed Under: science, things I learned from my children today

Relative age, telly pioneer and a bad smell

February 21, 2010 By Ellen

Other things I’ve learned. Lionel Jeffries was six years younger than Dick Van Dyke who played son Caractacus Potts to his Grandpa Potts. Lionel died this week. John Logie Baird made the first long-distance television broadcast in 1927 from the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. The floors of the hotel are, apparently, still marked by […]

Filed Under: housework, hygiene, other things I have learned

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