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6 super tips for travelling abroad with children  

March 10, 2020 By Ellen

Treating your children to a holiday abroad is one of the most exciting and rewarding things you can do as a parent. However, as we know, children can be a bit of handful, even more so when they’re removed from their everyday routine and environment. So, to help you out, we’ve put together this list […]

Filed Under: review Tagged With: airport, family, Review, travel

Review : Childcare – the easy way to find local childcare

March 1, 2020 By Ellen

Finding childcare is troublesome, isn’t it? The first time childcare crossed my mind was around 20 years ago when I realised that I had both a tiny baby and the need to get a job to feed the aforementioned tiny baby. At that time, my best money earning option was in back-shift newspaper production. There […]

Filed Under: review Tagged With: boys, childcare, childminder, family, My Life, nanny, parent, Review

Curtain up on getting your theatre tickets…

March 1, 2020 By Ellen

I love a night at the theatre – the whole experience, from overture to curtain call via over-priced ice cream.   I go as often as I can to see as many different shows as I can – last week I was, in equal measure, baffled and beguiled by Scottish Opera’s production of Nixon in […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: children, concert, David Essex, family, Glasgow, humour, out, prices, show, Theatre, tickets

Philip Schofield comes out and I’m very cross about it

February 7, 2020 By Ellen

Philip Schofield is gay – he came out today after 27 years of marriage. And I’m furious. Of course, I’m not angry with the presenter’s sexuality – that just happened to him, in the same way as his silver foxiness did, but I’m hacked off at just about everyone else. The Philster, he’s top of […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned Tagged With: family, gay, homosexuality, in my life, in the world, marriage, My Life, news, Philip Schofield, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, truth, untold stories

Inadvertent wisdom – the same difference again

November 24, 2019 By Ellen

It was one of those half-hearted attempts to encourage wholesome activity in Boy Three. A pathetic plea to do something that doesn’t involve doing battle in cartoonish worlds, listening to shouty American YouTubers, or both. “Draw me a picture. Just, you know, how you feel, or something… “ and off he went. I’d forgotten the […]

Filed Under: boys, things I learned from my children today, Uncategorized Tagged With: advice, boys, children, differences, family, parenting, Something happened in my life, writing

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