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Air freshener fails to alleviate the stench
Strangely I have always considered senior daughter to be our family environmentalist. As we live in the States, she is there to remind us where we are going wrong. Her views are pretty mainstream as...
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Validation – thank you Nonna
I begin to think that I may be an American afterall. [translation = able to use and understand the psychobabble language without effort] It came to me earlier today. At the moment we are lucky to have...
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Shopping allergy – the glass is half empty
Like many other consumers I have a strong aversion to shopping, it practically brings me out in hives. My mother confirms that I have always been a very bad shopper or more accurately, bad company and...
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I dry my hands carefully so I can put a fresh plaster on my finger, post washing up and then nip upstairs to bed down the smalls. I whip up the ladder to start with the smallest one on the top bunk....
View ArticleSensual olfactory assault
It’s a recurring theme. I’m oblivious early in the morning, still dressed in my robe, as we are, just for a change, behind schedule. Wednesday’s the half way mark of the week, and therefore attractive...
View ArticleUniversal Applicability
One of the most delightful aspects of growing up, for parents at least, is how kids apply what they learn to new situations, often in an incredibly apt and surprising manner. All too frequently I...
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