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Trutex – school uniform goes to the top of the class

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About this time of year, organized folk start thinking about getting their act together for the forthcoming term. Normal people (the rest of us) pretend it isn’t happening and then hurtle around the shops in a mad flap the day before school goes back, trying to work out why – once again – the only […]

A holiday less average… Secrets of the typical Brit abroad

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  Not quite a week and already the tan is fading faster than the sand fly bites. We’ve passed through the usual back-to-normal phases: Good grief it’s great to be home I’m on top of the world and I can do anything. I’m rested, watch me roar. How can there possibly be so much laundry? […]

When we went to Gozo…

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Less than a week since we came home and already the photos are making me sigh fondly. We went to Gozo on our hols this year, stayed in an Airbnb place and had a ball. Here’s what we learned. If you have to go swimming then have your own pool. Our digs had its own […]

Gozo: things we’ve learned so far

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What a lovely place this is – so quite and far from all that Brexitery. Wonderful. It has taken a few days to shake myself free of the holiday torpor. I’d embraced inactivity with such gusto, I was starting to get concerned that my ability to do anything briskly had vanished totally. While not exactly […]

Advice for would-be family camper

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At first glance, camping is wonderful. It’s cheap, it’s simple, it fosters adventure and togetherness and – if photos are to be believed – everyone doing it is grinning like an idiot. And, at some levels, this is true, but only if you do it right. Camping is incredibly complicated, stressful and unpleasant if you […]