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Fancy More Than One Wife?

Readers of this little blog will no doubt have clocked my feminist credentials by now. So it might surprise you (if you haven’t yet gotten a whiff of my upbringing, my background) for me to be urging readers to have a nosey at this wee article. In essence, this is all about The Joys of […]

Learning Lessons of Justice

I have never wanted to overburden my kids with too much knowledge at two young an age in terms of some of the injustice in the world. Always tried to have an eye on ‘age appropriate discussions’ etc etc. But a few years back I was working with a group of 19 year olds – […]

Give More? And How?

It was a bit of a toughie for us.  Making the geographical move from parenting in a desperately poor developing nations…to raising kids in a sickeningly materialistic, wasteful and ‘Me Me Me’ and ‘Mine Mine Mine’ culture…. How do you bridge the gap? How do you teach your kids that there is more to changing […]

The Cheek of A Cyclist

Sometimes I got for a run down a long country lane. This is a single track frequented by many, many a cyclist.  Because the cyclists travel so fast, and in groups – they tend to shout warnings to each other if they see a runner or a walker ahead of them.  Sometimes they yell things […]

Get Yer Baps Back In

I was listening to Radio 4 (Womens Hour) yesterday and heard about the ‘Ban Page 3’ petition, courtesy of one female activist/author – Lucy-Anne Holmes. Sometimes I get the feeling that I am a bit visionary.  I tend to ‘anticipate’ a lot of things before they become a trend. Rather annoying friends who have known […]

Home Education? Or Just The Holidays?

I don’t ‘Home School’, or ‘Home Educate’ them as some call it.  In fact, a few people have asked me, given our circumstances – why it is I haven’t taken this approach.  Usually, after someone has whacked me really hard on the back and urged me to ‘get a hold of yourself woman’ and the […]