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Family Life & parenting

2021: The summer of heavy traffic

For me, Tebay Services on the M6 personify the summer of 2021. This spot near Penrith in Cumbria demonstrated the inevitable impact of the staycation boom that hit the UK this summer because everyone hit the roads creating masses of heavy traffic.

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Photography

Shadow play

We’ve had some glorious, sunny evenings over the past few weeks. Once the children have gone to bed I’ve made the evening sunshine and taken myself off for a walk so I can unwind after what have become very busy days as we inch towards the the school holidays.

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Summer camp: The secret to a stress free summer holiday?

After a week of seeing other parents on the school run and my social media channels getting bunged up with back to school pics, my own offspring have now returned to school. The 2019 school summer break is over. Several weeks of living in a messier-than-usual house, with the kitchen being repeatedly raided by hungry

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Education

Did the summer holidays have to end?

After six weeks with no school run, yesterday was the day my darling children returned to school. Having dropped them off in the morning, I dashed home and excitedly got on with a variety of DIY tasks that I had been wanting to deal with all summer.

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