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Author Archives: Jax
My right to vote.
My right to vote is also my right to not vote. Or to spoil my paper. Or write on it none of the above (which amounts to spoiling and shouldn’t in my opinion.) We don’t actually have elections in our … Continue reading
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Peppa Pig campervan review
I was ever so pleased to be offered this Peppa Pig Vehicle with Figure – Campervan for review – Smallest has a lot of inherited toys but not desperately many that are targetted at this age and I’d a feeling … Continue reading
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Rules of parenting.
When the toddler is quiet, be afraid. Be very afraid. Baby lotion will remove almost everything from most surfaces, including biro from toddler faces. (See rule 1.) Your 12 year old daughter might not think she can get sunburnt in … Continue reading
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Best baby presents on a budget.
You may have noticed that recently I had a baby. Which means that I’ve been given lots of lovely new baby gifts, and also received a few to review. So here’s the first in a series of posts about baby … Continue reading
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8 weeks old.
I’ve never managed to be one of these bloggers who writes beautiful meaningful posts to her children every month or every year. As a result I’m not entirely sure which child did what when. But as this is our last … Continue reading
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Toddler taming.
You’d think, four children down the line, that I wouldn’t still be making rookie mistakes. First time around, I babyproofed the house. We had baby gates. We had locks in the video drawer, which itself was in a locked cabinet, … Continue reading
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Saturday snippets.
{reading} Terry Pratchett, wee free men. Excellent, forgot how good Pratchett is with language. {plotting} money raising ideas, more on that soon. {feeding} endlessly it seems. {cooking} roast chicken, roast potatoes {thinking} days are short with small children. {feeling} tired. … Continue reading
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The Light between Oceans by M. L. Stedman review
What’s with books that make me cry? Books about children, about birth, death, love and loss. How are they sneaking up on me out of the dark, whispering their way into my mind, tweaking at my heartstrings? This is a … Continue reading
I’ll give you something to cry about.
This morning I brought Smallest to the swimming pool for her weekly swimming lesson. It runs alongside a women’s only swimming session, populated mainly by women of a certain age. This leads to an interesting mix in the changing room, … Continue reading
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Vicks Humidifier – review. But there’s a post around it too, so you might still want to read.
Ages and ages and ages ago, way back in the dark ages when I was just a mother of three with a large stomach I was offered a Vicks Humidifier to review via the lovely ppl at Emma’s Diary. (I’m … Continue reading
Progress and growth
Tigerboy is 7 weeks old. He now weighs 9lb 2, a whole 12oz more than he did 11 days ago. (actually he could weigh anything from 4.10kg to 4.19, he wouldn’t lie still and the scales were really struggling!) He’s … Continue reading
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Thinking about dragons.
It’s St George’s day. My nephew’s birthday. I sent him birthday wishes through Facebook, and thought about his mother. It’s also world book night. Last year I signed up as a giver, and walked the streets trying to give books … Continue reading
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Who am I?
I don’t know any more. If I ever did. My self image has been bound up for too long in external imposed ideas and now that I have what I think I wanted, I’ve rather lost site of what that … Continue reading
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Yet more inspiration.
Recently two sets of friends of ours have downsized from houses, got rid of all their belongings and set out to live in vans. And a third set are working their way through everything, aiming for a similar journey next … Continue reading
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Two birds with one stone – the MADs and my own Lovely blog awards.
Recently I was given a Lovely Blog award by Anne-Marie at Child Led Chaos. (Great blog name. Fabulous.) And tomorrow the nomination phase of the MADs blog of the year awards 2012 closes. So I decided I would kill two … Continue reading
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Butlins: Breakfasts, Bob and Balloons.
I know I’ve been blogging quite a bit recently. I also know that I’ve actually rather a backlog of posts, and so I apologise for drowning you in multiple posts a day, but any chance I get near a keyboard, … Continue reading
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Back to a routine? History etc anyway
Yesterday evening we performed a minor miracle and I arrived at an intended destination for an overnight stay within half an hour of the time I wanted to. Well, it’s a miracle for me and mine anyway perhaps because I … Continue reading
