Moments Like This
How happy are you? Moments Like This
Apparently the Prime Minister David Cameron is to officially measure how happy we all are. He's going to ask statisticians to ...
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The death of the weekend: Moments Like This
There always comes a point during my weekend – usually on a Saturday morning around eleven o'clock – when a ...
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The baby is sick: Moments Like This
The baby is off sick. The nursery is refusing to have her because of the green gunk emitting from her nose. This is ...
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Parent teacher evenings: Moments Like This
Five reasons why parent teacher evenings are torture: 1. All the non-working mothers grab early slots leaving me with the ...
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The joys of autumn term: Moments Like This
Joys of autumn? Hah. Too busy. We're fast approaching Harvest Festival - yet another date in the school calendar that ...
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Moments like this: Talking about weight with my daughters
With two daughters, both fast approaching that age where it's going to take a ten ton truck to move them from the front of a ...
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Moments Like This: A month of birthdays
Two of my children were born in October, another just before Christmas. This is an expensive time of year for us, sandwiched ...
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Moments Like This: International Day
There is nothing guaranteed to send me into more of a spin than the words: 'International Day' on the school calendar. 'Book ...
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Moments Like This: The grandparent gap
Our family life feels buoyant, full and happy except for one ever-present cloud. And that is the stark absence of any ...
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Moments Like This: Infidelity
So Wayne Rooney has been playing away from home and Coleen and baby Kai have moved in with her parents. It's depressingly ...
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Moments Like This: The end of our summer holiday
Don't you just love self catering? The last day of our holiday required one of us to make some sort of sense of the mountain ...
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Moments Like This: Couple time
It's a weird thing going away without the children. For days I secretly covet the thought of hours alone – time to ...
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