This was the hitherto unkempt and disgusting corner of our garden once marked out to be ‘The Cubby House Area’ for when we were going to get the said construction. However, money (cubbies! are $$$!!) and boredom on Adam’s part one...
Topics: Family Life

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This made me feel better. I love the feedback!Thanks to you all for your kind words, both here and through facebook, emails etc regarding yesterday’s news. I appreciate it.
Topics: Family Life

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September, 1996“I think Tim is dead,” I said, sometime between 11am and 11.15am, as my friends and I were sitting eating our recess.N looked up sharply, aghast. “Don’t say that! No he’s not!”******In my memory, it was..
Topics: Karen, reflection

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Every so often I will be driving along in the car and go into a sudden panic. In these first seconds, honestly, I don’t know how I don’t crash.I think, “Holy fuck, where are the kids? Where have I left them?”A whole sequence of...
Topics: Family Life

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If it seems I’ve not been quite myself this week, at least here on miscmum, you’d be quite right.In a nutshell: it appears that a number - not an insignificant number - of my book copies arrived back from Asia with marks on one of the pages...
Topics: writing

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