A Cautionary Tale about Lists……but 1 more means there’s 4!!!

‘Things to do by the time I’m 30’ list by me aged 15 years Pass the leaving. Got to college Get a job as a PE teacher Marry Corey Haim. Have a baby. Buy loads of nice clothes. I probably wrote this with Chesney Hawkes telling me that yes indeed,…

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Up, up & Away!

  And so I kinda vanished there for a week……..we went on holidays with the kids but I was afraid to publicise it too much for fear of my house being emptied whilst away!! But all is well and here is a small account of our adventure. It may be…

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An Open Letter To Weetabix – We need to talk…..

  Dear Weetabix, We need to talk. I have thought long and hard about what to write in this letter. So here goes. I hope you bear with me. Let’s start with the positives. You have been a constant in my life – seen me through thick and thin for…

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Love & other playground complications

Is it Friday yet? No? Well it certainly feels it round my neck of the woods. 1st born has us in despair. We assumed or is it presumed (either way who cares…..they are both apparently the mother to all freak outs) that we would get at least 12 good years…

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Story Making Fun with Kinder Storymakers

So it’s one of those days and you are watching the rain lash off the windows outside and wondering why you didn’t have the giant tree that’s now dangerously close to falling on the house chopped down. The kids are climbing the walls & not even letting you finish a…

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