Month: September 2016

Stockholm Jaunt

It felt rather glamorous and grown up to be flying off to Stockholm on Friday night with no children with us at all. We hadn’t got rid of them on purpose, but all four were otherwise engaged – something which is bound to happen more and more. We even flew Ryan Air, which as anyone …

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Uncoupling …

Well, Twitter nearly broke yesterday under the sheer weight of Jennifer Aniston memes following the news that Brangelina is no more. For those living (happily, I’m sure) far from the ceaseless thrum of social media and needing a translation, this means Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are getting a divorce, and that Jennifer Aniston is …

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Back to school?

It’s been very odd, this week, not having a child to prepare for the back-to-school frenzy. For years, our summers have been punctuated by searches for the perfect pencil case, the must-have new ink pen (such excitement when the girls were promoted from pencils to the wonders of a nib), the backpack that everyone else’s …

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Welcome home, Helen

If you notice a few bleary eyes this morning, don’t be surprised. A large part of the nation has been celebrating victory – Helen Titchener has been found not guilty in The Archers. Woohoo! Of course, most of the jubilation happened at 8pm last night. Unfortunately, I decided to become addicted to The Archers a …

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Bird’s nesting

Moving house after my divorce was probably one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made, and certainly has made life very difficult for me and my children. After initially moving country, and re-establishing ourselves in a new area and a new school, we then moved again, half an hour away from everything the girls had …

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