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Coronavirus: Stockpiling or a feast of clearing out

March 10, 2020 By Ellen

There are, we learn, riots in the bog roll aisles as frantic shoppers grapple for the last Andrex before it’s too late. Too late for what? Goodness knows. Coronavirus is making its methodical way around the world and will get here eventually, no matter what we do. Concerning, yes. Prompting an uncontrollable urge for piles […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned, shop Tagged With: coronavirus, Covid19, feast, first-world, food, leftovers, sailing

Vacuum-packed chicken feet, a big screen and a stage

February 24, 2020 By Ellen

It was a shock, I’ll admit. I know we’ve seen people in surgical masks all over the news and all over the world, but that’s still there and not here. Very much not here. Nothing that interesting ever happens in our corner of the world. I used to hate that. The fact that the semi-rural northish […]

Filed Under: review, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, colour, coronavirus, Covid 19, David Copperfield, Dickens, in my life, in the world, infection, mask, Nixon in China, Opera, Stirling

On bad news and good news

February 3, 2020 By Ellen

It’s been a bit of a mixed week for Boy Three – culminating with being fired out of a cannon, cunningly disguised as a cement mixer (the cannon, not the child). He has spent much of the last week twanging with worry about coronavirus. Not surprising really as everywhere he turns, news outlets are giving […]

Filed Under: boys, family, things I learned from my children today, Uncategorized Tagged With: awards, Boy Three, coronavirus, fear, Journalism, news, PTSD, truth

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