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  • We all had a lovely time in Melbourne. Steve and I took it in turns to work remotely for a week each, and we stayed with Steve’s mum  who kindly […]

    Consuming conversations and music

    We all had a lovely time in Melbourne. Steve and I took it in turns to work remotely for a week each, and we stayed with Steve’s mum  who kindly […]

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  • Warning – this contains discussion of suicide. ‘These precious days’ is the name of a book of short stories that I decadently splashed out on from a lovely bookshop by […]

    These precious days

    Warning – this contains discussion of suicide. ‘These precious days’ is the name of a book of short stories that I decadently splashed out on from a lovely bookshop by […]

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  • It’s Book Week again. The girls dressed up as Tinkerbell (Lara) and a ballerina (Rhea) at school, and had a special parade which they described with excitement (‘Do you know […]

    Book Power

    It’s Book Week again. The girls dressed up as Tinkerbell (Lara) and a ballerina (Rhea) at school, and had a special parade which they described with excitement (‘Do you know […]

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  • Some days, like those days when the girls are sick and seem to cling to me all day, whinging and eating at my patience, a test of endurance for which […]

    We love books

    Some days, like those days when the girls are sick and seem to cling to me all day, whinging and eating at my patience, a test of endurance for which […]

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