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So this weekend I reached the grand old age of thirty-*cough*. I’m still having trouble absorbing that fact myself, and I keep recounting the years on my fingers but sure enough, time and time again, I found that as of Saturday, I was old enough to split myself in half, have both of myselves start…
My Blackpool….
I taught algebra today at school before coming home to create our version of Blackpool tower. In its algebraic form (did I make that word up? Probably.) I reasoned the following: Back in the day (or the “olden days” as I used to call it when referring to my own parents’ childhood) when staycations were the norm…
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SUNDAY [09/10/16]
This Sunday, we went conker hunting. It’s bittersweet each year now. This is the third year without my gorgeous fur baby Casanova, the third Autumn when he hasn’t been here to leap in and out of the crunchy golden leaves. I don’t talk about him a great deal, because when I do it brings tears…
MCDONALD’S: DIGITAL RESTAURANT OF THE FUTURE
Friday nights were grocery shopping nights when I was little, and as me and my sister clung to and swung from the side of the trolley much to my parents’ annoyance, I knew that as they wheeled us towards the car park, no matter how irritating we were, all of us would be eagerly anticipating…
THE GREAT PUMPKIN: HERO’S FIRST HALLOWE’EN
When I was in my late teens, I was in love with the photography of Anne Geddes. You know, the “famous baby” photos from Friends (from the Elle McPherson episodes). I had diaries, calendars, and when I left for law school in 1994 (how old I feel saying that), I plastered my bathroom at my…
VEGETABLES FOR BREAKFAST WITH DORSET CEREALS
Most mornings, breakfast is chaos in our house. Three hungry little boys asking for chocolate chip brioche, cornflakes and milk, hazelnut chocolate covered toast, raspberry jam-covered bagels, smoothies, apple juice, banana yoghurts, pecan topped croissants…by the time they’re packed off to school and I’m home again, it’s 10 o’clock and I haven’t eaten a thing….