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Take one a day...
"... and two on Sundays." Those were the instructions given to Squeaky by her Grandad when he handed her this box if chocolates. An old joke, but a pretty good one if you ask me. And one that she had...
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Just when you think everything's going fine
Why don't children come with an instruction manual? One that tells you whether something is just a thing, or something to worry about? When does an irregular occurrence become a regular thing? A...
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The view from my bed (warning, contains feet)
When we moved in to our house, it was a shrine to 1991. The house had been a showhouse for the estate, and hadn't been changed since. I guess the floral blahs suited the elderly couple who were here...
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Five Whole Years
Five years ago, I was settling into my first (very cold) days at home with a brand new baby. Watching the snow fall through the window and wondering what on earth I was letting myself in for.Yesterday...
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Lunchbox Woes
Nope, not a "I've run out of bento inspiration" post. I have neither the patience nor ability to make pretty shaped nonsense out of Squeaky's sandwiches, she will only ignore then in favour of yogurt,...
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Gender balance and education
I was browsing some local seminars recently, trying to better myself or something, and I spotted one regarding gender and primary education, supporting different outcomes for boys and girls and how to...
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Storage Tips For Busy (And Messy) Families
As any busy parent knows, tidy homes and toddlers don’t often play nice together. It’s bad enough during the baby and crawling months, but when toddlers find their feet and learn they can move things...
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Winter morning playtime
They, being the Met Office and the TV weather forecasters, keep promising us snow. The snow seems to have other ideas, and instead we've had plenty of hailstorms, cold, wind and sleet, but nothing you...
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Stationary stationery
A quick spelling lesson for you first. A car can be stationary, as it has an a in the middle. A pen is stationery, as it has an e in the middle. Easy peasy. It's the only way I've ever been able to...
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Belonging
I've lived in Merthyr for coming up on 13 years now. Ten in a village on the outskirts, and the last three within spitting distance of the town centre. But it's only been in the last year or so that...
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Sunshine Escape
February half term is a peculiarly dull concept. Unless you are a snooker fan & want to spend a week in a darkened room in Cardiff, there's not a lot to do. It's cold, it's probably raining, and...
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Holiday Friends
Holiday friendships are something I really miss about childhood. It's much harder to bond with adults when you're thrown together by a strange mix of geography, timing and the whims of the weather...
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Daydreaming
Daydreaming is a lovely thing. Not necessarily the "what would I do if I won the lottery" type thoughts, though they do pass a happy few minutes waiting for a latte to cool down from the temperature of...
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Molloscum Contagiosum
Or... what the heck is that rash?Squeaky's had eczema since she was a tiny Squeak. I know what it looks like, how it affects her, and where it tends to appear. So when she developed a bit of a rash on...
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Eclipse Watching
...Or "Another way I have managed to annoy Squeaky's school"It was accidental, honest. I was browsing one of those Mums' forums yesterday, you know the ones. One is full of recipes, the other full of...
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Election Fever
There's still over a month to go, and I am officially SICK AND TIRED of the election already. I don't wish to see the smug faces of David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband or Nigel Farage, or any of the...
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Take a look around
I think most of us are guilty of walking around in something of a dream, I certainly am. But daydreaming our way around the world means we can miss out on some amazing sights.While I live on the edge...
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Holidays
It's the time of year where the papers would normally be filled with those horror stories of parents being fined for taking their children out of school for a family trip to, well, anywhere really....
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Munching in Munich!
I was going to get all travel-blogger style and give you a full run down of our recent two-day jaunt to Munich, where we got caught in a monumental hailstorm, rode to the top of the Olympic tower,...
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Time for a change
I've never been a skinny minnie, to put it mildly. I'm not all that unfit - I can swim a 5k, and do a 3 1/2 hour Zumbathon without actually keeling over, but the only thing I can run is a bath, and...
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Mam, can I just have a word?
The phrase guaranteed to strike fear into the heart of every parent outside our school gates of an afternoon. The immediate thought process goes something like this...What has she done?What has she...
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Why, hello there internets. How are you? I'm muddling through. Just taking a bit of a break from it all, but normal service will be resumed just as soon as I figure out what normal is.In the meantime,...
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Be Not So Busy
Ok, this is one of those posts that I have to start with a disclaimer. This post is not written with any person in kind, aside from myself. It is not about you, your friend, or that person we both...
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Brewer's Fayre, Dennis is there
I'm never one to turn down a meal out, it saves on washing up, and I can get to try things I wouldn't make at home. So when we were invited along to our local Brewer's Fayre restaurant to have a look...
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Winter can be Hotter than summer!
OK, OK. Bad blogger, no postie. I know. Slap on the wrist and 200 lines "I Must Update My Blog More Often". But honestly, I've been being a busy little bunny. This week more so than most.I am a...
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