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Today’s the start of school holidays for us so, this seemed a fitting way to start them off. We took delivery of Cloe this morning, and she’s spent today doing…

this is the thing you do not know. it lives, it sleeps, it plods through the snow. but sometimes life sends us a spark. through characters 140, there comes an…

I have a compulsion to write this evening but, you know how you get stuck on a sentence and it just won’t fit? I’m there right now. So here I am,…

Dear Daughter, At some point in your life, in the indeterminate and very-far-away future, you’ll be an adult. You’ll be swinging your way through whatever it is that you end…

I asked my dad once “how do you know? You know? How do you know you love someone? How do you know you want to marry them?” (Back then, I…

The lovely folks over at Lenovo sent me this gigantic box yesterday. I love it when people get creative with their ideas around campaigns, and this is one I’ll certainly…

If you know me at all, you’ll know that I have a long history with sleep. Well, more correctly, a long history with not getting enough of it. For the record,…

This is not the first time this has happened. You came home the other day, having shrugged off another stupid attempt to annoy you. It had centred on your name.…

Dear Darling, I’m scared. I know I like you to think that nothing much scares me (and truth is, not much does), but there is something that absolutely petrifies me……

In life, we get cheerleaders. We have to be our own on the way to finding our own troop of cheerleaders, but it’s true. Those mates who stick by you,…