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Birthday cakes – 2020
Well what a weird year of birthdays that was! Andrew had a normal birthday in January, but the twins’ and Joel’s birthdays later in the year were in the first lockdown and with other tight...
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Is now our time to say goodbye to car ownership?
Back in February I wrote a blog post just after we’d bought our electric longtail cargo bike, known to us as Mike. That purchase was a key point in our journey towards the possibility of not owning a...
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Lockdown again
I wrote a blog post back in May about our experience of the first UK lockdown that started in March last year. Overall we coped alright – some things were harder but some things were easier for us, so...
View ArticleApplying for school places out of normal age group: a farce in several acts
Back in July last year I blogged about the response I got from our first choice of school for the twins – it was a clear and simple “yes” from the head teacher that the school would support our...
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Applying for school places out of normal age group: school 2 says yes, school...
The last time I blogged about our journey of applying for school places out of normal age group for our summerborn twins was in March. At that point I had confirmation from our first choice school...
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Applying for school places out of normal age group: school 3 changed their mind
In my last blog post about the twins starting school in Reception at compulsory school age, I referred to the decision from school 3, St Francis C of E Primary and Nursery School, who had decided to...
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A year on: life without owning a car
It’s pretty much a year since I wrote a blog post explaining how we were about to sell our car which had broken down and needed a very expensive repair. We were about to embark on a year’s trial of...
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Birthday cakes – 2021-2022
It’s been a while since I blogged about birthday cakes! In fact we’ve had 8 birthdays since then, so here are all the cakes that the children all asked for… Andrew’s 10th birthday He has always been...
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Work-life balance: starting a new chapter as a family
It’s another long period of time since I last wrote a blog post. Well, actually, I posted recently with photos of two year’s worth of birthday cakes, but I mean this blog has generally been very...
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The adventure of family train travel
One of the regular long-distance journeys that we’ve done on the train since selling our car is the trip to and from Plymouth in Devon to stay with family. By regular, I mean twice a year, although it...
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