Had an 18th century novelist come back to life in South London at Christmas 2013, she or he would have been amazed at the number of people wishing Insanity upon themselves and their friends. Insanity – for those of you who’ve been in a flotation tank for the last year
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Traditions We used to have a tradition, years ago. My daughter and I would get the biggest Christmas tree we could find. It started the first year I moved into this home. I didn’t usually do a tree, because it meant stuffing the thing into a very tiny apartment. Everyone
Read moreThere’s this great new TV show from the US on some channel or other, appropriately entitled Puppy SOS. If you have a puppy, you are bound to have had a puppy emergency/times of general desperation, and Brad and his magical touch with these mentalist pups is a revelation to the
Read moreI’m jogging in the park. The leaves have had their moment of glorious colour and now litter the path. The sky is clear and there is a pre-Christmas atmosphere. People in hats and scarves are running through piles of leaves with toddlers and dogs, but not – I hope –
Read moreI’ve written at desperate length about how Baxter the pup has lots in common with a psychotic toddler with shark’s teeth, but as he’s grown I’ve noticed him change. He’s still crazy and random, but he’s added more strings to his unpredictable bow. I can see now that teenagers and
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As soon as someone said the word “Thanksgiving,” I started feeling that familiar uneasiness. Being a single parent on the holidays means coordinating the day around not only your family, but “the other’s” family, too. Well, at least it should. For me, it’s a not-so-gentle reminder that being a parent
Read moreThere we are, eight of us, in a training room at work for a session on presentation skills. We have each been filmed giving a mini-presentation, been taught how to do it better, and are then filmed again. We see our final clip for a few minutes projected onto a
Read moreSunday morning rolls around again and I reluctantly lift my head from the pillow. Then realise – Yessss. Sunday is the day that my eldest boy gets up and gives the puppy his breakfast then takes him for a walk so that his dad and me can have a luscious
Read moreAlarming evidence suggests that our children may not outlive their parents, due to increasing number of nutritionally inadequate food choices. Seasonal nutrition is all around us at the moment with the country side overflowing with abundance. Seeing blackberries on the bushes is just one of the beauties of
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The other day, I noticed something different. “Hi Sweety!” “Hey…” she mumbled under furrowed brows. “Hmm…” I thought, “That’s funny. What did I do? What did I do?” See, my daughter isn’t really one to hold a bad day against everyone she meets. She’s also not the type to act
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