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Letting it go….

This morning the 5yo gouged the face of the 4yo. Luckily we’d recently cut off all her nails so all she left were red marks that quickly faded. An hour later, en route to that there London, the 4yo retaliated,

Paula October 27, 2010 children, Observations, Parenting 8 Comments Read more

Who killed the Cheerleader?

I failed the Gallery challenge to find my favourite photo last week.. Even after I’d gone to the trouble of trying to bribe the eternally wonderful Spudballoo I just couldn’t find the right image. In the end I crawled away

Paula October 18, 2010 children, photography, The Gallery 24 Comments Read more

What do you do?

It’s not been the best of weeks chez Battling.  Sending our youngest off to school has been a trial.  A week of unsettled tears from our 5yo hasn’t helped and at this point everything feels terribly raw, our emotions bubbling

Paula September 10, 2010 children, family, Parenting 23 Comments Read more

Toy Story Syndrome – A Modern Affliction

As I attempted to tidy the 4yo’s room earlier I realised that I was suffering from a modern phenomenon – Toy Story Syndrome (insert dramatic music here).

Paula September 8, 2010 children, Toys 16 Comments Read more

Knowing me, knowing you….

Sometimes you need a little time before you can write about something. Time to decipher the emotions, space to let things be long enough to see a clear path.  Last week, when my youngest child started school, I really didn’t

Paula September 7, 2010 children, love, Parenting, Peabee72, photography, school, The Gallery 25 Comments Read more

Fishy Pie

I’ve been away for a week, on the rather gorgeous and pretty remote Isle of Raasay (Western Isles, Scotland for any geographobes out there).  Obviously I’ve returned with a camera full of images and a head full of thoughts but

Paula August 29, 2010 children, Days Out, family, Jokes, Observations 9 Comments Read more

28 again….

As you get older the whole concept of a birthday changes.  As I lay pretending to be asleep in my bed this morning I could hear the excited whispers of little people covering the bed with cards and presents, negotiating

Paula August 13, 2010May 4, 2012 children, family, Parenting, Peabee72, Poetry, talent 50 Comments Read more

Pareto and other loosely held economic beliefs….

Ok, so bear with me here.  My A level economics result was lamentable at best, but I did take the odd thing from it.  I was always drawn to Pareto’s principle – that roughly 80% of effects come from 20%

Paula August 11, 2010 children, family, Observations, Peabee72 19 Comments Read more

Fairies and Funghi

The Dell is less than a two minute walk from my parent’s house – the house I spent most of my ‘growing up proper’ years in. Its bowl shape is suggestive of meteors and magic, but it could easily have

Paula July 27, 2010 children, Peabee72, photography, The Gallery 15 Comments Read more

The Crafty Mum

Yesterday my ego was felled. Well and truly hobbled by the 8yo. As I lay wounded, I wondered if my Catherine Tate-esque ‘I can do that’ attitude was letting me down. If maybe I should be less brazen about my

Paula July 16, 2010 children, Craft 44 Comments Read more
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