Month: March 2011

Nine lives

We have had a lot of concern about the move. Concern over our cat, that is. For some reason, people assume that humans deal reasonably well with stress. They even believe that I can deal with it, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back this assumption up. But the cat? Concerned voices, whispers, sympathy, even …

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Sleepover

I sometimes write for the great parents’ website Ready for Ten and a recent post on sleepovers got some comments suggesting a lot of people feel under pressure to have children round for the night when they aren’t really that keen on the idea. It struck me that even the simple idea of the sleepover …

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Divine inspiration

I don’t know about you, but I find it hard to ignore the word ‘chocolate’ in the subject line of an email. So much so that I’m very much afraid that I’ll ignore a pile of urgent missives from friends and family in order to zoom straight to that tempting word. Of course, this could …

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Review time

This review time is looooooong overdue so massive apologies to everyone who’s sent me lovely things to test and then been drumming their fingers while I move, lose my washing, and blog endlessly about it instead of getting down to some constructive work ….. Well, the wait is finally over. I haven’t found my washing, obviously, but I …

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Sooty and sweep

We thought we were buying rather a grown-up house. But, in the last week, I realise we’ve actually taken up residence in a commune. As I’m writing, there are two radios blaring out – one is Five Live, with the latest cricket scores, and another is an Asian station I’ve already grown quite fond of, …

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Say cheese

So the move is finally over. It’s fair to say that there have been a few teething troubles. I went into the garage yesterday armed with many bin bags, to tackle the freezer.  I was pretty sure its contents, having been left a-mouldering for the best part of a fortnight, would be quite capable of …

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