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You know you live with a toddler when…

March 26, 2012 By Ellen

For two mornings in a run, you wake up with “There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden, and his name is Wiggly Woo.” going through your head.You find yourself sitting cross-legged on the floor in the Glasgow Science Centre singing Old Macdonald and you don’t fear arrest. It’s not uncommon to prepare a breakfast […]

Filed Under: boys, toddler Tagged With: family, in my life, parenting, Something happened in my life

Tulips from Berlin – a love story

September 13, 2011 By Ellen

You made me think of floral clogs The Panther of News has been aprowl, far and wide… well Berlin actually. And when he came back this is what he brought me.  No, your eyes don’t deceive. He’s given me clog-shaped slippers made out of a rather super tulip print fabric. They have a cosy green […]

Filed Under: My Life, Panther, presents Tagged With: family, marriage, presents, romance

Sperm donor tells his side of the Fertility 1st story

February 24, 2011 By Ellen

I published a post a couple of months ago by my sister about how she chose to conceive a child using donor insemination with the help of a company called Fertility 1st. Subsequently the people behind Fertility 1st were convicted of operating without an HFEA licence. Here one of Fertility 1st’s sperm donors has agreed […]

Filed Under: Fertility 1st, sperm donor Tagged With: family, sperm donor, The World

Yoga – bending over backwards to help my boy

July 10, 2010 By Ellen

So, yoga for kids.. a bit Birkenstock and Boden? Only for children who eat olives and read Swallows and Amazons – not really for nugget eating, DSi tapping, I’ll-wait-for-the-movie youngsters? Then there I am on a mat in a front room curled into a ball while my 10-year-old son drapes himself over my back. We […]

Filed Under: aspergers, yoga Tagged With: Autism, family, Something happened in my life

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