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Today I had my first “only eight weeks to go until Christmas!” email, written in breathless tension to imply that if I didn’t shop with them right then I would be wildly behind schedule. For goodness sake, it’s still October! However, I have spent the week organising Christmas presents – but for good reason. At my [...] I saw a friend walking through the village this morning. She looked so different – because she wasn’t pushing a buggy and didn’t have any children hanging off her. She was striding, walking fast and confidently. I could tell that she was enjoying her moment of solitude and independence in the beautiful autumn sunshine. I [...] Recently, with the world as we know it apparently crashing around our ears, I said to my husband “I think everyone just needs to calm down and concentrate on the basics”. “There’s the voice of the housewife,” he replied. I don’t really understand any of the complex economics but I do think that we have lived [...] Our media is swamped with doomsday reports of how we are plunging into a world of tightening our belts. I was at the supermarket this morning and decided this might not be a bad thing. You only have to look around and see how fat we are as a nation to realise we have had [...] Yesterday my son came home from school with a shaker he’d made, a paper plate folded in half and filled with pasta. Glued to it was a typed note: Please be aware that this shaker contains small parts. Thank you. Is this the level of paranoia we’ve reached in our society? Have we become so quick [...] Until today I never believed I could multi task. My husband agreed because, unlike him, I am unable to read a magazine, work on a lap top and follow a whodunnit on TV. However, this afternoon I managed to make macaroni cheese while rocking a baby and singing Five Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day. [...] |
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