Category: Holidays
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Empty Nesting: When The First Takes Flight
NC left for her trip halfway around the globe at 5.30am this morning. She looked somewhat out of place with her backpack and beanie on. It’s not that our girl’s a princess, but she’s not into roughing it either, like her mother. We celebrated her departure last night over much too wine, our favourite Japanese…
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Why Do Hangovers Have To Be So Much Worse In Middle Age?
I farewelled my drinking legs in style this weekend. But there are worst places than the Hunter Valley to find out that you’re a pussy. Not even the enticement of membership to my favourite winery, Scarborough Wines, a life-long ambition of mine, along with the purchase of twelve bottles of my favourite Chardonnay (now safely stashed…
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Family, And being Shaped By The Good As Well As The Bad
It has become quite commonplace for many of us to blame the past for all our problems. Perhaps we know too much now. We know that trauma, if it isn’t dealt with properly, at the time, can leave a lasting trail of damage that affects the rest of our lives. There is some proof that…
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Death By Probiotic: Not How I Imagined I Would Go
It would be highly ironic if I were to finally meet my maker from choking on a probiotic. But that is something that very nearly happened on the day of my father’s wedding. Death by bacteria I’ve considered my death a lot over this past few weeks, thanks to my old friend ‘anxiety’ doing his…
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Man Spreading, Bread Rolls And Lesbian Sex: The First World Issues Of The Global Traveller
I’ve moaned before about the Everest of all tortures; that is the twenty-four hour long-haul flight from Sydney to London. One that rivals any agony ever to be invented for breaking terrorists by the Americans at Guantanamo Bay. Well, somehow we survived it. Unlike childbirth, it’s not so easy to forget every moment spent gritting…
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It Takes A Village To Raise A Child…I Hope
Some people believe it takes a village to raise a child; in our case it will probably take a whole fucking city.The lengths you go to, to prevent your dysfunctional, magnet-attracting-trouble teenager, from creating havoc while you’re away. When Louisa Clare shared a post from Revolution From Home entitled In The Absence Of The Village,…
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The Best 28 Reasons To Leave Town When Teenage Boys Are On School Holidays
1.It will rain. 2.Because it will rain, the lingering smell of boy germs will be impossible to eradicate because teenage boys don’t process the word ‘deodorant’. Occasionally, this odour is diluted by what you swear is the smell of illicit smoking from out of their bedroom window. 3.First trip to the ER – when son’s…
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12 Awful Things I Don’t Miss About Having A Child At School
The first term of the academic year is winding to a close, fortunately in tandem with the time the kids start to become really feral from the intense pressure of having to concentrate for a whole ten weeks. And I imagine that while some mums are dreading the next two weeks of holiday, some will…
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A New Year Of Parenting
And so another year of parenting has come around to challenge and age us prematurely. For those with ickle children, I hate to burst your bubble but nothing changes in the worrying stakes as your children get older. Just another reason it felt so fucking awesome to see that even Madonna can’t get parenting right. …
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Massage And The Price Of Beauty
With so much festive fun going on recently, I never got the chance to tell you about the best bits of our family holiday before Christmas. How I thought I’d look on the massage table… Being a ‘family holiday’, it obviously wasn’t going to be a moment that involved the family. No, the real standout…
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How I Survived My First Drinks Party Without Drinking
You know that I like a drink… But I’m a complex personality, hence I’m also a huge fan of Mindbodygreen, a website that publishes lots of great posts that highlight readers genuine experiences of how they improved their health or lifestyle, without that underlying virtuous and condescending ‘I’m better than you’ you approach. Found on dryjanuary.org.uk I’m…
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Friends, Holidays And Doing Fuck All
I’ve spoken before about the need to prune the bush of friendship before; about the sad inevitability that as we age, we evolve, yet sadly not always at the same rate or in the same direction as our friends. But fortunately, one of the BEST things about getting older is that we no longer have…
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