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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1996 & other atrocities…..revisited….with renewed love

  You know what they say? “Everything changes but everything stays the same”. The first time I heard that from my father-in-law I probably didn’t have a clue what it meant…..but I liked the ring to it so it stuck with me. However now, with age & maturity comes wisdom…

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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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The absent minded Yes

There is little more daunting at this point in our lives than that of the absent minded Yes. You know the scenario…you are driving & on the zillionth question about death, heaven or poo (because it is that random). It’s busy, cars everywhere & you hear ‘schlub bub bub Schlub…

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