On having your cake and eating it.

With the Star’s first birthday beginning to hover on the horizon, you realised recently that the mantle of making interesting themed birthday cakes was about to pass to you.
You have fond memories of your Mother’s efforts. Particularly the one with lurid green peppermint flavoured icing.
So you decided to use B’s birthday as an opportunity to [...]

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On sleep.

Whoever invented daylight saving time was clearly not a mother. One week down and the Star has finally been persuaded that four o’clock is not an acceptable time to be waking up, although he’s still opening his eyes closer to five than you’d like.
Consequently, you have been revisiting those heady days of surviving on very [...]

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On the perfect present.

Being the occasionally fond wife that you are, it occurred to you to start shopping for your husband’s present for your wedding anniversary (July 18th) bright and early this year.
Particularly because you wanted to buy him a (cuddly stuffed) camel. In the past, these have proved difficult to track down.
So you decided to go into the centre, [...]

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On the sound of music.

Your living room is dominated by the sound system.
If you knew about these things you would be able to astonish readers with a list of the thoughtful and knowledgeable mixture of hi fi separates which go into its make up. As it is, what you can say is that it is sleek and essentially black. The elegant loud speakers are [...]

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On love, actually.

 
So this morning in a fit of Valentine’s Day madness you went all out and made pancakes for your beloved husband.
 
In fact, they weren’t just pancakes but blini, which are clearly superior (with added yeast). You’d give the recipe, but the last time you went at it from scratch it took no less than [...]

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On auld lang syne.

You used to be awful at New Year’s. You’d like to be sniffy and say it was because you aren’t very good at having fun to order, but actually it was probably more because you had a tendancy to be bad at ordering the fun and would rather wait and see if it would turn up of [...]

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On being 20 000 leagues under, eh.

Friday night was a bit unusual as some of it consisted of you sitting in a pub listening to an attractive man tell you that he thinks you have mysterious and intriguing hidden depths.
This was so disconcerting that you couldn’t think of what to do.
Except to settle in for a bit of a flirt. After all, you do [...]

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On the rewards of persistence.

After turning on the TV, the second thing you and B did in Moscow was visit B’s newlywed friend A and his bride. Which was a lot of fun.
About halfway through the evening, A said, giggling, “Do you remember the time we went to the monestary?”
Sure do:
The social call to B’s monk at his monestary had [...]

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On your wedding anniversary.

Yesterday you and B reached your 4th wedding anniversary. So you are remembering your actual wedding…
8.30am saw me sitting in the hairdresser’s, accompanied by Mum, Best Friend and a camera. Mum, Dad, Brother and Grandad had arrived a few days before causing me give up the thorough spring clean of the flat in favour of [...]

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