My children seem to think I have superpowers. On the surface, this seems flattering – all shiny lycra, comic-book stories and a movie where my character is played by Angelina Jolie.
The practice is somewhat different. It involves the assumption that any challenge can be presented at the very last minute, and a solution [...]
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Unless you have the misfortune to live in Britain (where the rain has been pouring down for so long it is now being rebranded as ‘severe precipitation’ and sales of Wellington boots have reached record proportions), you know that the summer holidays are imminent (if not already in full swing), and with them the impending [...]
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A conversation over coffee last week centered around how we all adapt to any new environment, and I offered up the Feisty One as an example of someone who had it figured out from birth. Watching her walk into every new school leaves me sitting in the school car park in tears, while she [...]
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Yesterday, I wrote a post How to make friends and introduce people, which included a brilliant photo of two very, very special women. In aesthetic terms, the picture was less than flattering, but to me, it sums up many of the things that I [...]
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It’s one of those days. We have had two recent earthquakes, neither of which were of enough magnitude to explain the devastation inside our house. The Other Half is in bed with a raging sore throat and cough which has kept both of us up for two nights running, and I am ignoring the pile [...]
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