There comes a point where you just avoid reading the opinion pages. Parenting is certainly a lot more enjoyable and a lot less stressful when you’re not continually being told your children are eating the wrong things, either watching too much or too little television, having their IQ points trickle away because you’re not doing [...]

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Oh, it was good to see Richard Hammond back on the set of Top Gear. He looks tired and gaunt but otherwise seems his normal chirpy, cheeky self. The Hamster is intact. It was quite impressive that Akra and I managed to watch Top Gear at all, actually. We rarely watch the telly, and the [...]

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Akra (singing): Breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner… you’re the one who is a winner… Me: Oooh, what do I win? Akra: These two lovely boys. Me: Oh. Is there a cash alternative? Akra: Nope. Terms and conditions apply. Rats. Isn’t that always the way?

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… can one small child pick up so many illnesses? Only a few weeks clear of The Evil Stomach Bug[tm], Li’l Bhaji has picked up his latest affliction – Slapped Cheek Disease, otherwise known as Fifth Disease or Erythema Infectiosum. No, I hadn’t really heard of it before either, but I’d taken him to toddler [...]

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I’ve avoided being tagged for almost 4 years now, but Angela got me. So, here we go: The Three Things Meme Three Things that Scare Me: chickenpox (no really – I veer towards phobia on this. I’ve never had it, and had a big scare when Akra Jr caught it while I was pregnant with [...]

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Akra Jr: Mummy, Mummy! I got this smiley face sticker at school today! Me: Oh that’s good. What did you get that for? Akra Jr: For remembering something! Me: Well done. What was it that you remembered? Akra Jr: … um … I’ve forgotten. Bless. He takes after his mother.

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I hold all you clever knitty bloggers on my blogroll personally responsible for this – how dare you have lots of interesting pictures of your handiwork up there for all to see! Yes, I have finally succumbed to picking up some knitting needles of my own, spent a small fortune in my local department store [...]

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I hope all my North European readers came through the storms relatively unscathed. For those that didn’t know, we “enjoyed” hurricane force winds yesterday. Fortunately, we only had most of our garden furniture doing a Wizard of Oz impression and lost part of our fencing. A neighbour had tiles fall off and smash through her [...]

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… I’d be asking why Track and Trace systems don’t have GPS for the more obsessive parcel trackers among us. It should have been a fairly straightforward delivery. I was due in for the whole of the day, excepting three trips out of ten minutes each (one to take Akra Jr to school, one to [...]

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Well, the following article might explain why, a week later, I still didn’t have an estimated delivery date for my new camera this morning: worldwide shortage of stock from Nokia and Canon. Typical. They just knew I was going to order a DSLR, didn’t they?! Still, due to stunning lack of communication by the company [...]

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