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July 8, 2009

A holiday in Devon last week was like holidaying in the tropics. And no awful plane journey. We managed to fit in beaches, swimming, soft play, sightseeing, good food, way too many ice-creams (can’t fit in my pre-pregnancy jeans I had just got back into before we went away) and adventure parks. We were busy! [...]

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going

June 28, 2009

Although I am a very sad person generally at the moment, on the surface I am, of course, functioning pretty well. But every morning I wake up and for that fraction of a second everything is fine, until I remember that we have a new normal in our family life these days. So yes, I [...]

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Eyes on the sky

August 7, 2008

Last weekend we went to the Music in the Air family day. We sat in the blazing sunshine getting heatstroke and dehydration. We ate smoked salmon sandwiches and strawberries because we were pretending to be posh. Some of our party drank until they were no longer upright. The children had the most fantastic time. It [...]

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Simple equations for mothering

June 26, 2007

I look at him. ‘Matthew, you look knackered. Take some time off. Put a week in the diary in June, the weather will be good and we’ll take the children to the beach and do some fun stuff.’ So he did. And now we have a week of rain stretching in front of us. So [...]

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Dirty Dancing

February 23, 2007

When Matthew and I got married our wedding could have come straight out of Four Weddings and a Funeral – country church, marquee in the garden, lots of toffs in morning suits, drunken speeches and degenerate behaviour – but we wanted to make our first dance a bit different so we sidestepped the cheesy lovesongs [...]

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Fibre optic flower

August 19, 2006
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Out here

July 13, 2006

I’m walking through the fields, ripe with wheat, each step feeling a little lighter as I leave the long day behind. The baby, his skin enraged by eczema, sleeps his exhausted sleep so I sneak out, the golden fields beckoning me. The dogs race ahead of me, behind me, startling birds and rabbits. The cool [...]

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God and the little devils

July 10, 2006

Yesterday we ventured to church for a family baptism. The church was full of children, pretty much all of whom were well behaved throughout the thirty minute service. Except the row in front of me where Trouble lurked behind every word the vicar said. And yes, my eldest two might have been involved.

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