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Sunday Morning At The Rugby Club

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It’s been a bit of a morning so far. My other half is out for the day at some sort of arts and crafts course, leaving me to shepherd Miss 15 to rugby. We cau...

Weekend Chores

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I didn’t write a blog post yesterday. I’m not entirely sure why. I always write a blog post - every day. Even writing those words sounds like a lie now. Life...

Being Miss 15

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It’s been a long day. Up at 6:30am to have a shower, shave, make breakfasts, lunches, clear the kitchen, and then somehow get the children out of the house. ...

Forty Five Minutes

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I have roughly 45 minutes until Wednesday becomes Thursday. I’m trying to convince my mind that the end of the day is a deadline of sorts, and if I don’t pos...

Running Out Of Chocolate Spread

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I’m having a night off from “the blog” tonight. I’ve been sitting here, staring at the screen for the last half hour, coming up with this and that - but noth...

How Is It Only Monday

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There are ten days left in an idiotic sprint towards the end of the project I have been working on for the last year. Ten days to finish as much as possible,...

Living In The Gaps

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I’ve been thinking about the John Lennon quote today - “life is what happens while you’re making other plans”. It’s so true. I’ve spent most of the weekend d...

Losing With Style

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The school our youngest daughter goes to holds a charity bingo night every couple of terms. Tonight was one of those nights. We took supplies. We had such ho...

Made It To Friday

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If there was a shop selling cake nearby, I might go and buy one. For me. It’s been that kind of week. If there was another shop selling toy medals and trophi...

World Book Day

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Our household was a hive of activity this morning, owing to the arrival of “World Book Day”. Both my other half, and our eldest daughter work in schools - re...