Sunday, October 02, 2016

The end and a new beginning

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My lovely, lovely Ploggers. I have been Plogging for such a long time, over ten years in fact. The Plog has seen me go from young, free an...
Saturday, October 01, 2016

The beginning of the end

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Ploggers, an announcement will follow soon. I am sure you are in a state of abject excitement and/or worry, but rest assured, you aren...
Monday, September 26, 2016

Load of old pony

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I taught myself to bake in the summer of 2010. We had moved to the outskirts of London and shared a car. On Saturdays, TheBloke (TM) took th...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Milestones around the neck

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With the first child, practically weekly we would check the appropriate milestones for her age, delighting when she exceeded them ("Loo...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Study in studying

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TheBloke (TM) has a working theory that I didn't have a childhood. Tied together with my friend Hazel's assertion that I was born ag...
Monday, July 18, 2016

Groundhog Day the musical - a review (no spoilers)

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My brother is a lucky person. To be fair to him, he sort of makes his own luck. He's gregarious, interested in people and will talk to a...
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Saturday, June 25, 2016

Euro-trashed

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I have struggled to put words to this. I haven't felt like this in a very long time. And, for now, it is exactly that, a feeling . It ...
Thursday, June 02, 2016

To sleep, perchance to dream

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It has been so long since I've Plogged, that I can barely remember how to do it. My "writing" these recent days is limited to ...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Card bard

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Mindful that the second child's baby book is usually a lot emptier than the first's (though possibly not in our case, as I was prett...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Rebirth

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A parent I bumped into recently said that going from having one child to two is like going from owning a dog to running a zoo. There certain...
Monday, October 26, 2015

Cat nip

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I guess, all in all, it had been a rough weekend for Monty Cat. We are currently awaiting installation of a catflap, so currently he is depe...
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Toilet talk

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that once you have given birth and shown multiple strangers all of your bits, several times over, any...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

The hypochondriac's 12 gifts of pregnancy

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In the sixth week of pregnancy, my true love gave to me: vomiting until week twenty-three In the seventh week of pregnancy, my true love g...
Thursday, September 03, 2015

Desperately Seeking Asylum

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As a teenager I read Anne Frank's diary. Miep Gies was the quiet, unassuming heroine. It was she who successfully hid the Frank family, ...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Beating off the competition

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We are moving house soon. And as such, have decided to get rid of a lot of crap before we go, so we're not just transporting crap from o...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

School's out for ever

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I threw up on the morning of my A-level results day, just like I had on the day of my A-level British History exam, and just as I would find...
Wednesday, August 05, 2015

Out of her (family) tree

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"So anyway," said Mrs Nunn, "I told the vicar I'm Jewish now." Mrs Nunn has always wanted to be Jewish. Not from a...
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Friday, July 03, 2015

Got it licked

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There are moments as a parent that you find yourself saying horrific things, completely by accident. Case in point: the toddler generally ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Neti no-no

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I am pregnant, therefore I am miserable. Last pregnancy I wanted to punch each and every person who told me to treasure each special momen...
Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Luck of the draw

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So, tomorrow sees the general election. We will either have a Conservative or a Labour PM. Beyond that, it's pretty much anyone's gu...