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What to Think About When Starting a Family

May 9, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Image Credit    If you are getting married or buying a home with a partner, you might be thinking of starting a family. Family life is a fulfilling way to spend your life, but it is also a life of responsibility. Make sure you have the right attitude for family life and you have the […]

Filed Under: family, review Tagged With: advice, family, Review

Postpartum – 100 words

April 25, 2023 By Ellen

Postpartum I saw a woman beside the vegetable aisle – not browsing – Just standing, holding a baby ‘two weeks,’ she said ‘a boy,’ she said and stared at me for a fat moment – assessing – then she tilted him towards me like a secret. ‘Oh. He’s perfect,’ And he was in his milk-drunk […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, boys, family, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, baby, creative writing, love, newborn, post partum

Mad dogs – 100 words

April 7, 2023 By Ellen

Mad dogs We heeded and now wouldn’t dream of giving the SPF a miss ‘Do my back’ Then flat out, limbs strategically arranged for even UV and welcome the warmth seeping through protective epidermis into bone marrow and weighing it down which is odd as we think golden skin somehow looks slimmer but hot heaviness […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, family, other things I have learned, review, Uncategorized Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, heat, holiday, rays, sunbathing, tan

Comfort break – 100 words

March 21, 2023 By Ellen

Comfort break Toilets are ONLY for the use of customers it says over there on the wall between the hand-knitted stag’s head and the Tuesday pub quiz notice. Outside heather and pine and the long, long road make a mood board of purple skies and moisture. There’s a hunched cottage and light glinting from railtracks […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, family, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, cafe, creative writing, North Coast 500, Scotland

Lucky – 100 words

March 19, 2023 By Ellen

Lucky On Mother’s Day with the flowers, chocolates, breakfast in bed (or gin, manly hugs, and lunchtime pancakes this year), it’s easy to sugar coat the celebration. ‘Love you mummy,’ tiny wishes and the sharp, sharp pangs for the lost mums, the never-to-be children. Motherhood is hard and messy, and we know all about the […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, boys, family, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, Mother's Day, motherhood, parenting

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