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The tooth, the (no longer) whole tooth…

September 13, 2020 By Ellen

There’s a sort of ‘finding’ feeling at the moment. Finding my way home, finding my way around, and finding myself again. All of which sounds a bit navel gazey, but suggests there might be a little more time in my life for gazing in general. Which is a good thing. Meanwhile… What’s that? Oh yes, […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: Booths, Christmas, Cumbria, dentist, feeling, house, new life, newbuild, Pennines, photos, tooth

Lakeland Maze – ‘more fun than I thought…’

September 8, 2020 By Ellen

It didn’t look promising. But then nothing much does through doublespeed wipers. Boy Three and I arrived at Lakeland Maze near Kendal both putting a brave face on a very soggy Sunday afternoon. “Never mind, we’re here now.” Three hours later, only slightly muddy, we got back into the car all smiles. “That really was […]

Filed Under: boys Tagged With: Cumbria, Day out, exploring, Lakeland, maize, maze, Review

Returning home and starting again

September 6, 2020 By Ellen

“You know, you look just like your dad,” she said. “Not your mum, your dad. It’s the shape of your face.” A harmless enough comment, you’d have thought. But then my dad died 13 years ago, and it’s been much longer than that since I regularly bumped into (non-family) people who knew him. And I […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned Tagged With: Beatrix Potter, Cumbria, Cumbrian, dialect, Domino's, home, pizza, rabbits, Simon Rogan

Things that make me smile right now

July 25, 2020 By Ellen

Back to Penrith recently and much delight to discover that our favourite fried food purveyor has gone mobile. Thank you, Shap Chippy. And – at long last – family gathered a bit. Simply wonderful to see everyone and, for a bit, forget about some of the more interesting bits of the past few months. Boy […]

Filed Under: boys, family Tagged With: boys, busy weekend, children, Cumbria, family, in my life, Penrith, women

Brougham Castle not on the hill but worth a visit nonetheless

April 3, 2017 By Ellen

  Have you noticed how Ed Sheeran is playing in every single public space across the land? I’ve no idea how he’s done it, but he turns up in more places than Lego bricks. He was even playing on the Bull in the Archers the other day. His Castle On The Hill is brilliant – […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, Brougham Castle, Castle on the hill, Cumbria, Ed Sheeran, family, holiday, parenting, Penrith, sister, Something happened in my life

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