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Fighting Depression With Drugs
It’s been a funny old week. Depression please cut to the chase. (Photo credit: darcyadelaide) My day job is seasonal and eerily quiet at the moment, which has provided me with the rare opportunity of pushing ahead with ‘the book that will never be published’. In spite of its themes, (some of which that can…
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Time Out Strategies for Mums of Children With ADHD
We are working with Kurt’s new school to help find strategies for him in the classroom, so that he and his teachers have some chance of survival until the end of the school year. Common strategies might include a shared signal that the teacher will give to him when he is beginning to be too disruptive…
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Making The Right Decisions In Your Relationships
The difference between the way men and women make decisions by Aki Tan at http://www.flickr.com We make many decisions in our lifetime, some important and some fortunately less so. I’ve made great decisions in my own life, (such as trying Scarborough wine), and a few I’m not so proud of now, like an annual salary’s…
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Happiness Is: When The Kids Go Back To School
Happiness Is My High!! by Cinnerrr at http://www.flickr.com The school summer holidays are SERIOUSLY F*CKING LONG holidays when you’re a working mum of teenagers. So it is with barely concealed excitement, (skipping around the house whistling… maybe), that I am preparing Kurt for his return back to school. In my defence, I do mean to…
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I’ve Lied To My Husband For Twenty Years
No, this is not a headline from the Sunday Telegraph. I have something I need to admit to my husband. You see, as I write this post, the old man is winging his way back from the UK. He is without a doubt watching all the films I will want to see at the cinema…
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Farewell Firm Breasts, You Served Me Well
I bid a sad farewell to firm breasts today. Officially. I’ve been kidding myself for a while now, pretending that they still looked young and full with the help of a push up bra or a chicken fillet or six. But they weren’t looking so pert after my jog today, when they drooped out of…
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Being Promoted from Parent To Bank By Teenagers
That time when you transition from parent to bank with your teenagers. The thing about teenagers is that their brains are still not fully developed and they can act impulsively. So the minute you diss them or flip your lid at them or do something parentally-incorrect (like tell all three of your readers about their…
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25 Diet Questions You Know You Want To Ask
Dear Diet Helpline, I recently started your ‘How To Be Really Miserable Without Even Trying’ diet, but have since noticed some worrying side effects. I am aware that not all diets suit every body-type, because each person has a different metabolism and physiology, but please would you reassure me that this is the right diet…
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mymidlifemayhem.wordpress.com: Fussy Eat
mymidlifemayhem.wordpress.com: Fussy Eaters And The Fine Art of Food Deconstruction: The old man has gone back to the Motherland for ten days and… http://wp.me/p2rzah-Kr
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Fussy Eaters And The Fine Art of Food Deconstruction
The old man has gone back to the Motherland for ten days and of course I will miss him desperately. With NC still cavorting in Thailand, however, this has allowed me some respite from the domestic drudgery of cooking. Kurt has proven that man can survive on cereal alone Or to be precise, it releases…
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Learning to Cope With Those ‘I Hate Every-Fucking-Thing in My Wardrobe’ Moments
A.K.A…’I have NOTHING to wear’, ‘I have NO clothes’ and ‘Fuck Off, out of my bedroom.’ Learning to cope with those ‘I hate every-fucking-thing in my wardrobe’ moments. I’ve had quite a few of those moments of intense pain in my bedroom over the past few weeks. Those moments where you’ve tried every combination of…
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Mother’s Guilt and The Mindfuck Caused by Parenting
Anyone worked out ‘parenting’ yet? When you do, you will inbox me, won’t you? The great thing about these summer holidays is that they have given me lots of time to reflect, focus, over-analyse and privately condemn my parenting skills. Again. Family relationships have been tested and redefined this holiday. Indian Drum by Agelakis at…
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