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It’s not often that an article actually makes me snort out loud, but this one did. Not meaning any disrespect to the lady, but the line about having as much sleep with a newborn as she had whilst at uni extracted a noise from me that would have made Champion the Wonder Horse proud. Safe [...]

Probably the most wonderful thing about having two boys so close together (18 months apart) is watching their relationship develop. Every night before bath we have “jump on mummy and daddy’s bed” time, a riotous session of jumping, giggling, rolling and laughing that makes all the stresses and strife of the day melt away. It’s [...]

By the time you’re reading this it will be my birthday and I will be facing the fact that there’s no denying it any more, 40 is closer than 30. Whilst I can continue to pretend that uni was just a couple of years ago, and that the bags/crows-feet/white hairs are merely due to exhaustion [...]

This week we’ve been inspired to enter The Gallery, a photography competition run on Tara Cain’s Sticky Fingers blog. The fact that the winner will run gleefully off into the sunset clutching a bumper-sized basket of Green & Black’s has absolutely nothing to do with it. No nothing at all. Anyway, the theme of the [...]

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