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Trutex – school uniform goes to the top of the class

July 15, 2016 By Ellen

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 […]

The back to school (not very) blues

August 14, 2015 By Ellen

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 […]