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  • Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

    Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

    Here’s a prime example of “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus” offered by an English professor from the University of Colorado for a class assignment: The professor told his class one day: “Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem...

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  • Games to play with a two year old

    Games to play with a two year old

    This morning I ended up playing two games with my little girl – both of them disasterous. The first was “I spy”. Fine – except that she can’t spell yet. She knows what some of the letters are – she stopped calling the letter A...

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  • Holly’s Christening

    Holly’s Christening

    We had Holly’s christening at the weekend. Usual affair but after everyone had gone Lucie was playing with her Little People – various people, animals and buildings – and she was just rambling on about things that had happened during the day as she usually...

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  • Holly’s looking cool, but where’s Lucie?

    Holly’s looking cool, but where’s Lucie?

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  • Brunettes being blonde

    Brunettes being blonde

    An unnamed woman in our office has been sending out boxes of brochures to various hospitals around the country and sometimes they get refused by the postroom. One got refused and the delivery guy put on the delivery ticket “refused by Joe Grayoldman”. So Sian...

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  • Another Little Monkey

    Another Little Monkey

    My family has got bigger…the latest addition is Holly Marie who was born on the 26th May; 4 weeks early. With the biology lessons and the birth scenes in TV series I thought I knew what I was letting myself in for but nothing prepared...

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  • Tears at Bedtime

    Tears at Bedtime

    Last night Lucie went to bed at the normal time and I could hear her running around her bedroom playing for a bit as she normally does until she’s tired enough to go to sleep. After about 20 minutes I heard her crying and she...

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  • Potty Training

    Potty Training

    As Lucie has decided that she wants to wear as she calls them “big girl pants” instead of nappies we have started potty training, for some reason because I gave Lucie a biscuit once when she went on the potty she now asks for one...

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  • She’s nearly 2!!

    She’s nearly 2!!

    I can’t believe that it’s nearly 2 years since Lucie was born. The last 2 years have been amazing; she’s no longer a baby but a person with a very quirky but adorable personality, and as you know we’ve got another new arrival soon. Lucie...

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  • She’s on the piss already

    She’s on the piss already

    We were at a party and from the look of it Lucie managed to get her hands on a glass of wine

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