Money, money, money.

I spend all my time at the moment it feels, thinking about money. Saving it, raising it, earning it, spending it. It’s partly because of this challenge, and partly just because money is tight, and we’ve got four children. I don’t have a pension, or college funds for the children, and if we have a [...]

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Silent Sunday 20th january 2013

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Saturday snippets 19 January 2013

{Watching} nothing. The media centre has expired. No family film night, we could have hooked up a laptop but with several sick children we decided a quiet early night was a better idea. {Reading} life after life from Kate Atkinson. Not very far in yet but it’s promising so far. {Eating} spaghetti bolognese. Quick, cheap, [...]

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Read 52 Pure and an apology.

We’ve been away this week, which meant some good reading time, and I’ve polished off my third book, Pure by Juliana Baggott. I found it a bit slow to get into, in that there seemed to be an awful lot of set up before the story really got going, and I wasn’t sure I was [...]

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The holiday bug.

The more children you have, the more chance that you’ll spend part of your holiday holed up in your accommodation, nursing one who has succumbed to a holiday bug. A visiting virus, imported by another holiday maker, shared in the pool, or just in passing. And so it has been today, with Tigerboy having a [...]

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Dear Alice

I’m now the mother of a teenager, and I’m still slightly stunned about it. Lying here next to another small person I’m transported back to that first night, 13 years ago. I’d been awake for 36 hours give or take, and in labour for around 20 by my reckoning before you were actually born. And [...]

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A movie, a book, some time in the pool.

The movie: Hop. Better than you’d expect, not actually good enough to watch three times back to back unless you’re a three year old with screen withdrawal. The book: finally finished How To Be a Woman, Completely failing to identify with the experiences described, though some conclusions on abortion chime with my gut feeling. The [...]

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Not a post about feminism.

I’m reading How to be a woman, it’s rather annoying me (I’m also blogging from a phone that won’t allow me to put in full stops please imagine them in appropriate places) Gave up on that. No full stops? Gah. This is working much better. Where was I? Feminism. Yes. (On Caitlin Moran, I really [...]

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Silent Sunday 13 January 2013

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My Health with Patient.co.uk – a sponsored post.

Having given birth just over 10 months ago now, it occurs to me that I really ought to be feeling a little bit more myself than I actually am. Or more accurately, that perhaps there should be less of myself than there is. I don’t feel fit healthy and raring to go, I feel flabby, [...]

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