Category Archive: Random Stuff

Feb
21

How do you sponsor a pot plant?

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I must confess to being somewhat confused by an envelope than came home with the geekdaughter from nursery yesterday. It seems she is getting involved with a major charity’s fundraising activity where she will plant bulbs and grow them, and also paint a decoration for her plant pot. I actually have no problem with this …

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Jan
24

Audio blog: The etiquette of bags for life

Those of you who read my blog regularly may already know this, but for the benefit of those who don’t, this is not my only blog. I also maintain an audio blog which you can find over at audioboo.fm. One of the many things I love about audioboo is being part of a small, close-knit …

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Jan
11

Coping with arguments

We’re going through quite a challenging time with the geekdaughter at the moment. There’s the waking up and crying in the middle of the night, which could either be for a probably valid reason (“my knee hurts”) or for a reason that makes me really exasperated (“I don’t want to be alone!”). And then there’s …

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Jan
06

I never expected her first time to be at a friends house

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It’s something you have to think very hard about. The first time. Not to be undertaken too lightly, not to be left too late. Who wants their child finding out about this stuff in the playground? It is clearly something that needs a lot of thought, and has to be handled right. I always thought …

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Jan
02

Resolutions

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It’s that time of year ago. The time for looking backwards to the year we’ve just left, and forwards to the year just beginning. Last January I documented my resolutions here on this blog, so I thought now would be the perfect time to review them, see how I did, and put in writing my …

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Dec
31

How do you measure success?

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On the whole I try to avoid blogging about blogging – I find it terribly self-indulgent, and I don’t think it’s the kind of thing my loyal readers are interested in reading. However on this, the last day of 2011, I hope you will permit me a little bit of self-indulgence as I take the …

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Dec
30

Where do sausages come from?

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One of the presents the geekdaughter received for Christmas was a set of “Happy Families” playing cards. Now, playing Happy Families with a child who can not yet read is a bit of a challenge, and today I spent a reasonable amount of time showing her the cards, explaining how the families were structured, and …

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Dec
28

I buy boys clothes for my daughter

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This wasn’t how I was going to write this blog post. I was going to talk about the latest John Lewis Christmas advert, and how if you watch carefully there’s a shot of the small child running around in a really cute Gruffalo costime. About how when I was doing my Christmas shopping in John …

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Dec
11

Silent Sunday 11/12/2011

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  Silent Sunday. One photo, taken in the last week. No words.  To see more great pictures search for the #SilentSunday hashtag on Twitter

Dec
08

Eating porridge with a fork – another curse of the working mother

The life of the working mother is a constant juggling act. I try to be around for my kids each morning before I go to work, to kiss them and cuddle them, whilst at the same time trying not to get milk or porridge on my office clothes. Then I have to leave them in …

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