The Scout badges: Loud ‘n’ Proud
Scouting is my eldest’s thing. It’s what he does best and what he loves the most. He loves every aspect of it – the camping,…
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Family Parkrun
A few weeks ago, while I was away at the MAD Blog Awards, my husband managed to convince both boys to join him and my…
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Happy birthday, 12 year old boy!
Happy birthday to my lovely son. You’re another year older and the teenage years are growing ever closer. You were born exactly four weeks after…
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First school concert: Loud ‘n’ Proud
My son really has hit the ground running at his new grammar school. They don’t give kids time to ease in, they believe in throwing…
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Parkrun: I can see him!
While I was away at the MAD Blog Awards a couple of weeks ago, a strange thing happened. My husband managed to persuade our two…
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The panto audition
For the last two months I’ve been unable to think about the autumn without thinking ‘we might be busy with the panto then’. But not…
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Junior Parkrun: the rivals
Five minutes before we set off for my daughter’s second Junior Parkrun, we casually asked my younger son if he wanted to go too. He…
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Top scorer
At the time of writing, after two games of the under 12s season, my son is the top scorer in the league. And I couldn’t…
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Settling in: Loud ‘n’ Proud
It’s been two weeks now since my son started grammar school, the school we’ve wanted him to go to since he was a toddler. It’s…
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Junior Parkrun
The Junior Parkrun started up near us a couple of weeks ago. It is 2k, rather than the 5k (or 3 miles as I prefer…
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The Scout camp: Loud ‘n’ Proud
As you read this, my boys are on a big Scout camp in Holland. Both of them. They’ve been there for six days already and…
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New curriculum – First report
You may or may not have noticed, but at the start of this academic year our (I’m trying to think of an appropriate adjective, but…
