So IVF (In Vitro Fertilisation) was in the news again last week, as the Italian designer Domenico Dolce went on the record saying that he believed IVF babies to be “synthetic”. It was part of a larger attack on same-sex parents, and some of his other words have created more uproar, but that IVF comment seems to have brought […]
We’ve all been ill
Our house has been a house of sickness over the last week or so. I’ve been considering painting a red cross on the door, or wandering around with sackcloth over my face, ringing a little bell and shouting “unclean!” if people get too close. OK, that’s probably a slight exaggeration, but it really does feel […]
5:2 Diet Update and Meal Planning Monday 20/08/2012
I mentioned last week that the geekdaddy and I were trying a new eating plan where for two days a week we “fast”. In this case “fast” does not mean “eat nothing”, rather it means “eat a single meal of 4-500 calories within the 24 hour period” (that’s for women, men get 5-600 calories). For […]
The one where the NHS beats private health care
A while ago I blogged about the pains that the geekdaughter has been getting in her joints overnight. She’s still getting them, although they don’t seem to be as frequent as they were at the time I wrote that post. We had just taken the geekdaughter to the GP, and given our family history (which […]
It’s just growing pains, right?
I am naturally a very positive person. Definitely glass-half-full rather than glass-half-empty. And one of the things I refuse to do is worry needlessly about things that may or may not happen in the future. I might think about them, I might try to do some contingency planning just in case, but I flat out […]
