New Blog Posts 7 - 13 October

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Am I first? Only happened once before! herewith tales of the returning husband and a Lorraine Pascale Lamb Curry saved from disaster.

From Fat to Fit; my journey from couch potato to half marathon runner

And breathe...we survived the sleepover

Morning! The latest - and maybe last? - man crush update from me:
The end of the story...?

Sweet-talking the Tooth Fairy...

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Teengirl's recovering slowly from her friend's suicide with some talking

A sponsored post that could save a life

and

a Silent Sunday

Funny things kids say (warning - it's about death and heaven)

PressiesbyPebbles

A beautiful poem read out at a funeral this week, a woman taken too young

Our round up of family oriented ideas for an outdoor themed Halloween.. get ready to spook yourself silly.

I have fallen in love with a lot of my daughter's books on the first read. Almost everything from Julia Donaldson or Lynley Dodd for example is an instant hit - they just seem great. Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper was definitely not one of these the first time we got it from the library - I thought it was weird!

After multiple readings I still think it's weird - even a bit Gothic - and I am starting to think this is why she likes it.

A review of Helen Cooper's Pumpkin Soup

Do you like surprises? We just had our 19 week scan and decided to not find out the gender... for a little while.

Do you have a 'difficult sibling relationship?' Me too.

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I am wondering if the shares for rights thing annouced by Osborne today is just the beginning of the end of employee rights:

pint-sized-rants.blogspot.fr/2012/10/a-rant-about-shares-for-rights-and.html

What I'm wearing - #froctober
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I hate housework, but hate chaos more

ParsleyTheLionness - loved the post - a woman after my own heart! I abhor housework but melt down in chaos. I've got a housework linky on my latest housework post for us dullards determined to crack it - do add your post!

A desperately dull housework post ...

I've turned my uber Christmas check-list into a schedule ... just a few little things each week and abracadabra as if by magic it will all be done with not a moment of stress ...

... failing this I may borrow some mice from the Tailor of Gloucester to help out!

My Christmas plan ...

This weekend, I 'got away'. We went to Crewe!

I have put my stuff in storage and felt a bit weird about it all.

A giant game of Tetris

I can believe the level of flannel we are expected to believe when it comes to banking reform. I wrote this in disgust.? lifeafterdebts.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/malice-and-manipulation-aforethought.html

This week's post is on sole-parenting... am being sole carer for 10 days for the first time ever, and it's freaking me right out!
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In which watching a mother and grown-up daughter in a cafe sends me off on a flight of fancy about what the future holds in store for me and my nine-year-old DD

Cheltenham Literature Festival: It's A Family Affair

Hi all, here's my post for sunday:

michellethemoonlighter.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/is-my-baby-seriously-ill/

I hope my experiences can be helpful to someone out there.

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