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Party Politics from the TinyPop Perspective

7 YR OLD: So, Mum. Whatever party you vote for, do you get a party-bag at the end of it? ME: No. Sadly not. 7 YR OLD: So why would you bother? ME: Dunno. Ask Russell Brand. 10 YR OLD: Is he the one what killed ‘Evita’? His photo-painting thing is everywhere. ME: I’m sure […]

Naked, Shameless Exploitation

I’ve met a good few journalists in my time. Some of them local hacks. Some of them household names. Some of them happen to be low-life scum who wouldn’t think twice about slicing their own mother’s fingers off if it resulted in a line or two in The Daily Mail. Others wouldn’t think twice about […]

Everything Is Lovely

I’ve been asked by the marvellous Anne L Harvey to carry on the torch of ‘My Lovely Blog.’ This is simply a relay-blog between fellow writers who share similar interests and take in life.  I’m going to have a stab at answering these questions and then will pass you onto two further buddies… My First […]

Theft of a Feathery Friend

The greatest pleasure of having children is when they Achieve. With a capital A. When they come home with straight A’s, get into the ‘best school’ and then ‘choose’ that highly respected or  financially lucrative career path that you’ve been not-so-subtly prepping them for. Ah yes. Nothing more rewarding than when you finally see the […]

Thou Shalt Not Rewrite (ANY) of The Rules

CONTEXT: We live in a corner of the west Yorkshire world that embraces many different faiths. The 6 yr old lad attends a wonderful infants school. It happens to be secularly-orientated but still does a sterling job to include the many different faiths and beliefs within the curriculum. Recently however, I have become increasingly aware […]

Bookish But NEVER Boring…

Reporting back from the promise in my previous blog – to expose the kiddywinks to those Public Information films that so many of us were nurtured with in post-war Britain, I have to say that I am rather disappointed.  We watched many – and the general consensus was “Freaky! Creepy!” or “well you never took […]