March 2010

Why I ask you to vaccinate your child

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The side of vaccination you may not have thought about.

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Coming out: anonymous vs public blogging

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I’ve been blogging now for five and half years. I’ve blogged my way through the joy of my children, post natal depression, a failure to thrive baby, two pregnancies, one of my children falling seriously ill and all the ups and downs that life with four small children brings. In all that time, I’ve done [...]

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Skipping across the internet

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Welcome to my new blog: my final move to a web address I’m very pleased to have. I haven’t had a chance to pretty it up yet, but I expect I might get a header up when I have a few minutes, sometime early next year Please let me know you found me! Otherwise I [...]

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Voices of motherhood

Last year I received an email so hateful that I felt sick for weeks. It was an email criticising that fact that I wrote about my son and about his illness on my blog, how I wrote about parenting instead of actually parenting and how I was doing that for money and pageviews and links [...]

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The colour of dreams

Here is one of my favourite photos of the field behind our house, awash with summertime poppies. For a few weeks they turn the fields of green rapeseed or wheat into something entrancing. On the day I took this, Harry spent a good part of the afternoon wandering back and forth through the field, totally [...]

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In my shoes

Today I’m very honoured to welcome the lovely DulwichDivorcee, journalist, writer and mother of two, as a guest blogger here as part of Guest Post Day. Please make her feel welcome! They do say you can never understand anyone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Well, I find myself completely daunted by the [...]

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