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Category: Family Life & parenting

Days out and travel

Exploring the great outdoors

We’ve had a second blast of cold weather and it’s brought us further respite from the monotony of lockdown. At the end of each remote schooling day, I’ve taken the children out for an hour or two and it’s given them a real chance to explore the great outdoors because there’s been snow and ice

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Covid-19

Suspend school uniform until September 2021

If you can picture the scene, I’m attempting to shove my kids out the door for some exercise. I do a double take as something about Izzy, my youngest daughter doesn’t quite look right. Then I realise what it is: She’s wearing tracksuit bottoms that are part of her school PE kit.

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Family Life & parenting

Tofu massaman curry recipe, Hello Fresh style #AD

In the past, we have had food and recipe deliveries from Hello Fresh. I’ve always found the ingredients to be superb and the recipes straightforward to follow, quesadillas being a particular hit with our kids.

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Covid-19

home learning tech: Disparate and disorganised

A couple of weeks ago, a cheeky scamp posted a funny meme on a WhatsApp group I’m a member of. It was a joke about the diverse array of apps us parents are supposed to be using to oversee and monitor our kids’ remote, home learning. The photo was of a confused Mark Wahlberg looking…very

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