Sometimes you need a balloon

Sometimes you need a balloon.
When it’s late, and you’ve been dancing with your big sister and your cousins.
When your Mummy’s eyes are bright with smiles and your Gran and Grandad are watching with quiet pride. When your Uncles are buying rounds and and your Aunties look so pretty, and everyone is excited because one new [...]

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Truth – Day three

When you’re a kid you make mistakes.  Sometimes they’re big, sometimes small, but if it’s you it’s happened then it can seem enormous, insurmountable and completely, wholly, the end of the world.
Born in the mid 70s and brought up Catholic, my small world seemed at times consumed by guilt.  Naive and yet I think, fairly [...]

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A rant on behalf of a friend

I have this friend.  She’s fabulous, querky, funny, warm and vibrant, and she’s blumming hard working.  I’ve known her since school and her little girl is one of Miss M’s bezzie mates.  She’s a hairdresser and has done both my girls hair since they had any.   She does good hair.  She was also a [...]

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Truth – Day Two

Is it bad that I love my head?
Not the physical, roundy cranium bit, but what’s inside it?
I love my brain.  I love its quirks, its emotions, its scattiness.  I love that it can create stuff, imagine, throw words and images together to amuse itself.
I’m not saying I’m some kind of perfect being – there are [...]

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Truth – Day One

Often I float, a leaf on a river, taken, carried.  Sometimes I reach warm gentle pools where sun dapples the almost still surface, where animals and insects play and live and all seems abundance, and ease and calm.
Other times the waters are not so smooth, and I am not carried but forced on by an [...]

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Just showing off really…

Up until last week I had a choice to make.
You see, although Miss M is by no means a large child, she does have a very tiny small bedroom.  Seriously, we’re talking room for a bed, a tiny wardrobe, a small bookcase and a bedside table.  No room to swing a cat, a squirrel or [...]

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Do you need help talking about sex with your kids?

I almost missed this email but am slowly catching up.  I found the information really helpful so am sharing it with you pretty much word for word (mainly because it’s 1.17am and my eyes are about to fall out.)
“Let’s face it, for many parents talking about sex with their kids can be uncomfortable at the [...]

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Nokia N8 – Tell Yourself Where to Go

I have a new toy
It’s lovely, and shiny and sparkly
See

But it is also fun, because I now have a recording of Misses E and M to give me directions as I drive around.
Yep, I know, that could be annoying, but just think, it’s a way of being in complete control of your kids, while letting [...]

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Beauty is in the eye…

Miss E runs into the room.  Her mouth a breathless grin, her eyes wide and twinkling.  She thrusts a piece of paper into my hands and I glance down at the proffered gem.
She watches my face.  My face isn’t quite sure what to do, but luckily her own enthusiasm rescues me,
Miss E:  ”Mummy, it’s pi.”
Me: [...]

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