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Top tips for preparing your child for the school bus

August 14, 2022 By Ellen

If your child is getting ready to start using the school bus, they may be feeling quite nervous. As they grow, they’ll face obstacles and faced with little milestones such as this, so preparing them is the best way for them to learn to cope. Once they get used to this new part in their […]

Filed Under: boys, family, review Tagged With: bus stop, commute, school bus, starting school, travel, voyage

Be careful what you wish for (the back in the office edition)

December 27, 2019 By Ellen

Yesterday, I was all ‘get me off the sofa, I need some structure in my life’. Today, I went back to the office for a day. For the longest, slowest day in the history of days. How I wished I was back there on the sofa even with the existential angst… Therefore, to avoid another whinge […]

Filed Under: blogging, boys, family, other things I have learned, Uncategorized Tagged With: commute, gratitude, homelessness, office, work

Hopes for Indian summer fade…

September 19, 2018 By Ellen

There it was, the first proper weather of the season. Storm Ali romped across the country causing considerable inconvenience. I had to change my plans and catch a bus. Heaven forfend. Boy Two abandoned his bus stop vigil when his hands went numb, and the garden is in more disarray than usual. It wasn’t always […]

Filed Under: blogging, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: #100days, Blogging, commute, instagram, Scotland, Storm Ali, weather, wind

My week in shoes

September 12, 2016 By Ellen

I rather enjoyed Last Year’s Girl’s take on her busy week. Probably more than her, as it seems like it was a little traumatic. Anyhow, it gave me the notion to do something similar. At the mercy of ScotRail a couple of times a week hasn’t turned out too badly. Although flat and comfy shoes […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: comfort, commute, fashion, Hotter, shoes, something happened in my world, train, women, working parent

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