Tag: holiday
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Family Holidays and Wounded Male Pride
What I particularly love about the holiday season is that it brings out the best traits in a truly dysfunctional family. I am so enjoying reading the wondrous family holiday stories of my fellow bloggers at the moment, who are at one with their families, secreted away in idyllic holiday oases with their perfect children,…
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10 Tips for Surviving a Weekend Away With An ADHD Teenager
So it wasn’t officially a holiday as such. It was more of a mini break, if that constitutes 24 hours away from home with an ADHD teenager and the release of some pent up working mother’s guilt. It was a final desperate attempt to find some quality time with my son amid a busy time…
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Middle-Aged Couple Trash Top Hotel
To Mr Bates, Manager of Wrinkly Lodge. Dear Mr Bates, Letter of Apology I am writing to thank you for your letter which I received this week. I would like to reiterate in our defence of your accusations that our celebratory, (I believe you described it in your letter as ‘immature’), behaviour in your hotel last weekend…
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The Middle-Aged Skier
There are two types of middle-aged skier. The first type was born to privilege and learned to ski at the same time as they learned to walk. They went on to become the heroes of their tossy private school inter-school ski challenges, irritating the f*ck out of the ordinary folks (who are just trying to…
LOUISA SIMMONDS 