Work-life balance

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Panic Stations

Like sorting Lego into colours, listing your worries makes you feel like you’re making progress. In both cases this is an illusion. I’m...

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There Will Be Books

Curious George is a movie that can penetrate even the most noise-cancelling of headphones. Writing a novel in the same room as a...

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I Am A Lego Detective

But I’m confused, because although I think that’s what I said, what he seems to have heard is, ‘I am a Lego Detective. I can find any...

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A Bit of Stair Trouble

This morning was officially the second day I was to leave the house and come here to work on the blog and other self-directed (aka...

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Make ‘Em Laugh

May Blossom at work in her office. A month or so ago we let May Blossom watch Singin’ In the Rain. We were on the hunt for a movie that...

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The Talkies

This is not strictly relevant to the following post except that it sums up better than any other photo I have how today has made me feel....

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Break It Down Now

My little family is about to take a little break. Not from each other, but from the city and work, from battling for parking and crowded...

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Do-Nothing Tuesday

Fortunately, Other Jess turned up this morning with a tub of vanilla ice-cream and the words ‘iced coffee’ on her lips. I cancelled my...

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Maligned Mothers from Children’s Literature: Mayzie the Lazy Bird

May Blossom reads Dear Zoo In Dr Seuss’s Horton Hatches the Egg, a bird called Mayzie grows tired of sitting on her egg. She wants a...