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Things your children don’t need

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  Back to offering unrequested advice again. This time parenting advice, like it or not. It’s almost Boy Three’s seventh birthday. (Seven! I know, can you believe it?) So it was necessary to organise a celebration. Interesting how there’s an inverse correlation between the number of children’s birthdays you’ve presided over and the level of […]

Review: Mum Hacks – time-saving tips to calm the chaos of family life

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It’s become the Holy Grail, hasn’t it? The ultimate tip – or hack – that will Change Your Life. The one thing you can do that will make you instantly thin, popular and tidy. After all, just consider the enormity of your achievements if only you didn’t have all of everything to do every day. […]

Another first that wasn’t on the list

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This post comes to you from the SSE Hydro where I was waiting for an Imagine Dragons’ gig to start – and then finish. It’s another first – parent of a concert-goer too young to go on their own. There are many firsts – words, steps, booze cupboard breeches – you anticipate. But others, like […]

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 […]

How to have a productive weekend

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It was Friday again. That sweet spot in the week when the toil is done and anything is possible. Heading home to treat the kids to a pizza and me to a night off making the supper. I didn’t even get annoyed by the people on the train with the bags. You know the ones, […]