The fair
My kids had never been to a fair before. Is that a bit weird? Does that make me a bad parent? I guess it’s in…
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Family | Kids | Son | The Gallery
The Gallery: A photo I’m proud of
My photography has fallen a bit behind. I used to be a good photographer and have had an SLR since I was 18, but the…
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Knock-on effect
My decision to leave work has had a knock-on effect on other people, which I hadn’t really considered until it happened. For me, being able…
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Daughter | Kids | Loud 'n' Proud | Son
The Lion King (Loud ‘n’ Proud)
Every year my younger kids’ school takes a week off timetable to do something amazing. Last year they decorated the walls of the schools with…
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Opening the presents (birthday girl)
We take birthdays pretty seriously in our house, but I don’t think a birthday has ever been quite as anticipated as this one. Not our…
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I’m Loud ‘n’ Proud! Are you?
Being a parent blogger is great – you can have a good moan about all the things that are wrong with your life and your…
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We need a holiday!
Call me old-fashioned, but I like to print off actual photos and stick them in actual albums. I’ve always done it, and the fact that I…
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‘Not a silly mummy’
Things went a bit pear-shaped in our house the other day, leading to a thoroughly unpleasant evening for all of us. A question was asked…
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Last half-term
Tomorrow something momentous will happen. It might feel like a pretty ordinary day, but it’s a real milestone, because it’s MY LAST EVER DAY OF…
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Achilles heel
My younger son, usually the most energetic and easy-going of my kids, wilts when faced with cold, hunger or thirst. It hits him like a…
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Don’t park on the zigzags!
In life there are confrontational people and there are people who hate confrontation. People who will back away from an argument, find themselves pretending to…
