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Taking risks

It's been a busy old week. Daughter one had her first secondary school parents' evening, an event I confess I had been looking forward to for about a month simply…

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Sleepover "fun"

Daughter one is 12 this week and is already showing teen-ish symptoms. On Friday, I picked her up from school. I admit that I arrived the customary three minutes late,…

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Related tags: Birthday | Sleepover

Birthday, what birthday?

So the film of Allison Pearson's working mum book I Don't Know How She Does It is out. The trouble is, as a working mum, I don't have time to see it.…

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Related tags: Birthday | Sickness

Happy birthday

One year ago today I was entering what seemed at the time a lovely yellow room full of sunlight and bouncy balls. Several hours later it had morphed into a…

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Birthday spirit

One of the good things, theoretically, about having four children is that it is virtually always party time in our house. We are still tidying up from one birthday when another…

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