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Category Archives: family life
What’s the point..?
Today I was killing time while my sons had their swimming lesson. I walked around the outside of the pool with my daughter. As we got ready to go back inside I heard a man say to his young son … Continue reading
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I love Steven Moffat
Who?! The man who is talking over Doctor Who from Russel T Davies. The seriously cool man who wrote the Best. Episode. Ever: “Blink”. He also wrote “The Empty Child” (‘are you my mummy?’) which is the SCARIEST. EPISODE. EVER. … Continue reading
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Church Halls
I love church halls and village halls. I can still recall the mural in the village hall where I grew up in North Somerset, painted in the 1960s with villagers of the time dancing round a may pole. Today my … Continue reading
Jimmy Mizen, day 2
There’s a very odd atmosphere in our community today. It’s never been so quiet, even on a Sunday. Especially on a Sunday. Very odd seeing the priest that baptised my daughter being interviewed live on the BBC News Channel. I … Continue reading
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Twinkle, twinkle
Sometimes I get bored reading the same stories and singing the same lullabies to my children. So I substitute lines from popular songs. Ten points if you can spot the artists at work here: Twinkle, twinkle little star How I … Continue reading
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