After being cooped up at home for most of the week due to Sophie being poorly, it was a relief to finally get out of the house towards the end of the week and go into town to have lunch with Grandma and do a bit of shopping. Both Jessica and Sophie needed new shoes… Read More

Friday Fabulous Five #14

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It’s Friday again and time for me to share my Friday Fabulous Five – five of my favourite posts from this week. As always, it’s a mixture of the funny and the thought-provoking – three reflective posts covering birth, maternity leave and parenthood and a couple of funny festive posts. Here are the five posts… Read More

The Friday Focus – 05/12/14

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After last week’s dramatic week, I was hoping for a calmer week this week. To some extent that has been the case, mostly due to Sophie being quite She had been a little unsettled on Friday night but seemed back to normal on Saturday morning as we headed off to a Christmas party and was… Read More

The Broken Boys

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This week’s ‘The Prompt’ is ‘I read the news today…’ which reminded me of an assignment I had when I was doing a creative writing course to write a piece based on a news item I had come across that week without using dialogue. Here’s the piece I wrote: The Broken Boys Well, here… Read More

Christmas time

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Once again It’s Christmas time Time for mince pies and mulled wine Gifts to buy Don’t overspend! Cards to make, and write, and send Carols to sing A school nativity Decorations up, fairy lights upon the tree Santa comes Riding on his sleigh And leaving gifts for Christmas Day Magic moments Time with family That’s… Read More