Christmas performances part 1
It’s Christmas performance time and my head is close to exploding. With three kids, a job and a husband with his own business, the logistics…
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Living in the shadow
I am told it’s not easy living in an older sibling’s shadow. Constantly being compared, usually unfavourably, by parents and teachers. You’re not as good…
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Whose job is it anyway?
I was brought up by a mum who did everything for me. I tidied my own room and laid the table and cleared it, but…
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Happy birthday to a hot hubby/ lazy son
Is it just me, or is there a massive gap in the market for birthday cards for the people that matter? Particularly the male people…
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The two and a half hours that changed my life
My eldest son started Beavers when he was 7 1/2 and in Year 3. Because he’s one of the youngest in his year, many of…
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The longest day part 5
It’s a day like any other in the summer holidays. Except that I decided to write down every single question the kids asked me, just…
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Arsenic hour
I once heard the ‘hour’ (a term used fairly loosely, I’m sure) between teatime and bedtime described as ‘arsenic hour’. I like this term. It…
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Back to school blues
With three kids at the same school, there are few mysteries left. Of the three new teachers, two of them have taught one of my…
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The bed time marathon
My kids are not babies. Far from it. At 10, and entering his final year at primary school, my eldest is more tween than toddler,…
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The joys of fussy eaters
‘Daddy, I don’t much like food from fields’ my daughter announced at the table yesterday. And what poisonous ‘food from fields’ were we trying to…