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Tag : Dear Orla

    • 10/28/2015
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      vlog : a wedding in Barcelona

      Personal
      At the start of the month we visited Barcelona, albeit very briefly, for my elder sister's wedding. Because of R's job in education, and because I point-blank refuse to spend time with my family [...]
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    • 10/24/2015
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      Conversations with Orla

      Parenting
      DRESS: 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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    • 10/17/2015
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      Letters to Matilda + Alfie’s Studio giveaway

      Personal
      We've been writing a lot of letters to Matilda. Cards, mainly - 'I know! Let's make a card for Tilly and send it with the postman', as we come through the door after another long day. So, we [...]
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    • 10/16/2015
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      slow living: build a bonfire

      Living
      Technically it's still a month or so off traditional British bonfire season, but this time of year it's still warm enough to be tempted outdoors for an early sunset. What is it about a bonfire that [...]
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    • 10/08/2015
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      notes for my daughter: weak & strong

      Parenting
      Dear 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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    • 10/01/2015
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      TOASTtravels : words from the wild

      Parenting
      A 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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    • 09/19/2015
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      kids online: how much is safe to share in photos?

      Photography & Personal
      Is it wrong to put pictures of your kids on the internet? Is it more wrong if they're half - or fully - naked? I've been thinking it over lately. When I took the above picture, and hesitated [...]
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    • 09/14/2015
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      giveaway: Mama Box – London Gifting Studio

      Personal
       Setting up this photo, digging out the old remnants of Orla's baby days, I got hit by some forgotten feelings from those early newborn days - particularly, of being lost in a sea of [...]
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    • 09/07/2015
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      Notes for my daughter: books to read

      Parenting
      Dear 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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    • 08/26/2015
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      Show & Tell: August – & an ad giveaway

      Personal
      1. Our little Greycat very nearly died this week when he suddenly came down with what we now think was a serious brain injury. Fortunately, he made it back from the brink of euthenasia - albeit [...]
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    • 08/23/2015
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      talking to a toddler about Death (& Miffy)

      Parenting
      Orla 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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    • 08/09/2015
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      notes for my daughter – Songbirds

      Parenting
      You were born with a mind like a faiytale forest, filled with every imaginable species, and some even beyond that. A rainbow of feathers, a cacophony of song. & every day as you grow, we lose [...]
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