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A late summer walk too beautiful for photos

September 15, 2014 By Ellen

Sun was sinking slowly and lighting the fluffy floating seeds as it went. Boy Three and I were walking home through the still, mild evening.  This’ll make a lovely photo.  But then, Boy Three’s hot sticky fingers squeezed mine. “Mum do you promise to hold my hand all the way home?” “Of course I do. […]

Filed Under: Autumn, boy, boys, family, Mindfulness, summer, Walk Tagged With: autumn, children, in the world, summer, writing

When will there be rain?

July 27, 2014 By Ellen

“And we’ve been so lucky with the weather…,” they cry, perspiring pinkly. “It’s hotter than the Seychelles, here. In Glasgow.”Right.  It’s true. The sun has beat relentlessly onto Glasgow’s unusually clean streets these past few days. Even locals who normally consider that a sunny spell is part of an elaborate natural practical joke – like […]

Filed Under: confession, heat, heatwave, rain, summer, sun, weather

Views from a week in Wales

July 6, 2014 By Ellen

The boys make bread at Castell Henllys fort.  Listening out for banjos on the River Teifi Oarsome outing for Team Bundance Every little helps with Boy Three Getting used to verandah living Making a splash off New Quay

Filed Under: beach, Cardigan, holiday, summer, Tresaith, Wales

Smells like summer – Ghost Eclipse review

May 4, 2014 By Ellen

It’s weird. Winter, apart from the Christmassy pine and cinnamon bit in the middle, doesn’t smell of very much. It’s too cold in exactly the same way chilled petrol station sandwiches have no flavour whatsoever. By Emma Royle via flickr However, summer – albeit a chilly and damp version – has arrived and to mark […]

Filed Under: perfume, review, seasons, smells, smelly stuff, summer

Come on summer, we’re ready now…

March 18, 2014 By Ellen

This morning on my constitutional trot, I spotted this chap trotting across the road. By the time I’d fished my phone out from under several layers to take a photo, he’d reached the shelter of a hedge. It was pouring down.  According to the wisdom of the internet, hedgehogs don’t come out of hibernation until […]

Filed Under: clothes, hedgehog, Hotter, seasons, shoes, spring, summer, Vertbaudet

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