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Me, motherhood and a sorely neglected house

Fear of falling

OK so now comes the admission: I bought rollerblades. This was a while ago, because I didn’t want to buy them, be rubbish at them, and then ditch them as I do so many other things (we Geminis get bored/frustrated very easily, dontcha know). But it’s been a couple of months now, so I felt [...]

My Day (dedicated to all the parents out there who are trying to perfect the art of juggling)

Wake at 6am with Munchkin digging little heels into me (how does he get right in between us in bed without us even noticing?). Walk The Mutt, all the while cursing that it isn’t my usual 5.45am outing. Because yes, in Tucson, Arizona in the summer, that half hour and the sun being lower makes [...]

Heat blisters

Triple digit time, folks. For those of you who get, um, jealous of us living in a place where temps rise to 100 plus in the summer (you family members and friends back in Blighty, yeh, talkin’ to you, in particular), here is how I like to describe walking out into a summer day in [...]

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