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Generations

Posted in Church, Faith, Family, Kids, tagged , , , , , , , , on 10 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The Joker was six the other Sunday. We’d already planned a party for him at a local soft play park, which happened after school on Monday. So what about celebrations on his actual birthday?
To tell the truth, we’d not completely factored in his birthday when planning our last few Sundays in this parish. So we’d [...]

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Holidays (and strike days) – survival tips

Posted in Craft, Family, Holidays, tagged , , on 18 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On Wednesday, when we had an enforced day of holiday because of the public sector strike, Wonderfriend came round to play with the Queen. I was able to keep the two big girls and both my small boys occupied for a good part of the morning using a great present sent by Auntie Icklesis. I [...]

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Pros and cons of clergy wives conferences

Posted in Faith, Family, tagged , , on 11 July, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I’m just back from a Proclamation Trust’s Clergy Wives Conference. This was my sixth year of attendance. A conference full of the wives of ministers seems a very peculiar thing, so I thought I’d list a few pros and cons of going away for four days with women whose husbands have similar jobs to mine.
Pros

Refreshing [...]

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Modern reports

Posted in Family, School, tagged , on 4 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My kids had their school reports today.
One of the comments in the Queen’s one was
The Queen has good mouse control.
My rodent capabilities were never commented on when I was at school….

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You know it must be nearly the end of term when…

Posted in Family, tagged , on 24 June, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

1. The children are very grumpy and argue with each other even more than usual.
2. The Joker screams while the Queen tries to boss him around.
3. The Engineer cries all the way home when he has to walk rather than go in the buggy.
4. In the next two days, you have to prepare a Pathfinder [...]

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How many bedrooms in your house?

Posted in Family, Inner city, tagged , , on 16 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

At the toddler group yesterday I was having a nice chat with Mrs Discoman about her new house. She’s still in lots of chaos but so happy to have a spacious new home. Sitting with us was another mum, who has six kids, aged 2 to 16. She mentioned that she’d applied for one of [...]

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And where are you living?

Posted in Family, Inner city, tagged , , on 13 May, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was at a school reunion a couple of years ago. The typical conversation went like this:
‘Yaas, we’ve just moved to Bayswater, how about you?’
‘We’re living in a small village in Worcestershire. Where do you live VW?’
‘We’re in Wolverhampton’
Eyebrows head upwards, jaws drop and I feel I have to justify myself.
Out of that environment I [...]

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