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Lunchtime

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It’s lunchtime in the officegiven that I have nothing better to do, I could get on with my work, but messages to the contrary seem to be plastered all over t...

Parents Versus Children

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While the rest of the household scraped themselves out of bed this morning, I headed for the local rugby club with our middle girl for her final training ses...

Walking To Work

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For the past several days I have been walking to work, on account of snapping the crank on my bike in half. I would like to think my undiscovered superpowers...

The Liebster Award

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Having resurrected this blog from the halls of anonymity at the weekend, I was shocked, stunned and amazed to discover that somebodyobviously of wonderful ju...

Triggers Toothbrush

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I just had perhaps the most bizarre conversation with our eldest daughter in quite some time. We will try to ignore that I met her at the foot of the stairs ...

Stopping And Starting

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Following months of travelling to distant destinations with work this year, and scrambled days at home washing clothes and re-packing cases, I began to quest...

It Feels Really Strange

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I have been back in the office this weekwellsince Wednesday, when I returned after having time off at Easter. Even being back here a few days feels really, r...

The One Where Miss 9 Finally Learned To Swim

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Today will go down on the record as the day Miss Nine finally conquered swimming. She has been swimming (head down, torpedo like) since last summer, but has ...

Disappearing

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For the past several days a little thought has niggled at the back of my brain, labelled “should write a blog post at some point”. I used to write nearly eve...