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Killer Items To Put On Your Family’s Summer To-Do List

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Summer has arrived. It’s our favourite time of the year, and we all want to make 2016 the best one ever. And you can. Of course, spontaneity is great. However, a little planning will go a long way to building the best summer ever. Creating a bucket list of items that you’d love to experience […]

Yes, and… let’s go to Edinburgh for the night

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Edinburgh in August. Ugh! Crowds, idiots on unicycles and shouty antipodean jugglers. Why would you even bother? It’s a little bit like that if you’re trying to get somewhere around the centre of the city. Luckily for me, though, I don’t have to. It’s one of those viewpoints that speaks of world-weary got-the-t-shirt experience, rather […]

The back to school (not very) blues

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You can tell by the money in my purse that term has started again. I don’t mean that it’s considerably lighter after the painful pre-school shopping – though it is. (Three pairs of black leather shoes, three pairs of trainers, variously sizes 2, 6 and 10, since you ask. And, yes, I cried at the […]

What we did in Holland on our holidays

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One of the things we did was debate – at length whether it was OK to call it Holland. Boy One, insisted it was The Netherlands despite maps showing him we were in South Holland. We learned the joys of Lycra-free cycling! And encountered the remarkable phenomena of patient motorists who give way to bikes. […]