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The Wheels On The Bus

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You know the children’s song “the wheels on the bus go round and round” ? - I can’t help feeling that yesterday the wheels on my bus started to fall off one ...

Trains Planes And Comic Book Heroes

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After the disaster that Monday became, I summoned Miss 12 from bed at 7am yesterday morning for a repeat performance. By 8am we were waiting patiently at the...

Nanowrimo Approaches

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There are only five days left until the annual lunacy starts, and I haven’t given a single thought to what I might write about yet. I’ve tinkered with the ol...

Not Making It To London

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Today was supposed to be all about taking my middle daughter for a day out in London - just the two of us. I have taken the eldest, and youngest daughters on...

Lost

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Normally I am absolutely fine with being alone - with living inside my own little bubble - but sometimes I can feel incredibly lost, and I have no idea why. ...

Far From Home

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At 5:15 this morning, my body performed the magic trick it often performs, and woke me ahead of my phone erupting into whatever the factory default alarm clo...

130Am

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I’m not sure what I’m about to write. All I really know is that it’s 1:30am, and I became aware earlier that I didn’t post anything on the blog yesterday. Gi...

The Insanity Of Selfies

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While somepeople pepper Instagram, Flickr, Facebook and Tumblr with their smiling face, I seem to have avoided the self-directed spotlight in recent years. I...

Seduced By Tumblr Again

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At 2am this morning I sat in bed on my own, gazing at my mobile phone, wondering when sleep would crash into me like anunpredictable freight train. I had jus...

Two Weeks Until Nanowrimo

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I realised today that NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) starts in two weeks. I’m already wondering if I can get away with doing it purely by writing 1...