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05/09/2016These are the days that we came here for. When the sun warms our bedroom at the top of the house while the dawn chorus works itself up to an orchestral cacophony. And we dig out the sun cream [...]
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03/02/2016A Tim Minchin song might not seem like an obvious place to find wisdom, but I'm a huge admirer of his clever wordplay & humorously accurate observations on life. The Fence is chock-full of [...]
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11/18/2015sparkly shoes c/o Boden I've decided that toddlers are like chocolate. I love chocolate. Who doesn't?! It's sweet and delicious and most of the time I could just eat it all up - pleather [...]
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10/24/2015DRESS: NADINOO BOOTS: BODEN I love this stage. Her vocabulary is sophisticated enough to spill all her thoughts out, & it's fascinating stuff. Where before I kept a [...]
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10/08/2015Dear Orla, I have been strong and I have been weak, and I have learnt that these words do not mean what we think. Before you were born, I cried easily; a confrontation with friends, a passing [...]
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10/01/2015A couple of weeks back, on a day punctuated by sudden, soaking downpours, I dragged poor James Melia out to a ruined barn in the middle of the moors. I'd spotted it from the road months ago - in [...]
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09/07/2015Dear Orla, You might not enjoy them or even finish them, but the following books are all worth trying. These are the books that helped me understand the world - and possibly even myself - a [...]
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09/02/2015We're at that tipping point of summer; the days divide themselves between hot sun and thick, oppressive cloud. When it rains, the air grows cold, and you can tell autumn is just around the [...]
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08/23/2015Orla appears to thinks Miffy is Death. Or Deff, as she says it - like he might have a twin brother called Jeff. It's been a bit of a difficult month, you see... It started a few weeks back [...]
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06/24/2015A little lesson I re-learned this week, with help from my little muffin, & from Peppa Pig. Last month I bought Orla a Peppa Pig Playhouse on a whim. She'd found a Daddy Pig figure [...]
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05/20/2015I found the post below in my drafts folder earlier this week. My own words surprised me, because right now it's all so different - Orla is in a 'sunshine child' phase, & we're skipping along [...]
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05/09/2015Parenting a toddler is awesome. She is adventurous, hilarious - 'bubble poo', 'no please!' & 'cold toast' (bread!) - and endlessly affectionate. During my recent coughing fits, she drops [...]
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