Tag: kids
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Boulogne-sur-mer
For the February half-term holiday we went to Boulogne-sur-mer in France (about a two and half hour drive from Brussels, and only 20 minutes from the Eurotunnel in Calais). The aquarium Nausicaa near the centre of Boulogne is well worth visiting with kids. It bills itself as the biggest aquarium in Europe, and the main…
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Meeting up with friends who have kids in winter..
Aargh when you have kids someone is always ill! As a consequence my social life during winter consists almost entirely of standing in the drizzle at a playground chatting to other parents in the short window one has before someone’s child screams “I’m cold! I want to go home!”/it rains.
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Sharing
Sharing has never been either of my daughter’s strong point, but this was a really low moment. Max and Maxine only lasted a couple of weeks and are now forgotten, but I still get asked to find invisible hamsters. Luckily I seem to be better at it than I was before.
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Parenting in a climate crisis
I’ve just finished reading Britt Wray’s book ‘Generation Dread‘ on how to cope with the emotions that knowledge of the climate crisis stirs up, and how to channel them into action without burning out. I highly recommend reading it, especially as a follow on from Matt Winnings book Hot Mess which somehow manages to be…
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Trip to the Belgian coast
We had a few days on the Belgian coast during my daughter’s half term holiday. It was really nice to see the sea, and I would highly recommend the farm that we stayed on vakantiehoeve ‘t Goed ter Leeuwen. We’re going to go back in February again, and ha this time try not to accidentally…
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Ink paintings
As part of my cartoon course I’ve been experimenting with using ink and a paint brush instead of the usual pen and ink +watercolours. The colours are super vivid which I really like and I have to be a bit looser with my style because I have less control of the paint brush.
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Nights out
Sometimes I get a bit down that all I seem to talk about with my mum friends is our kids when we should use our free time to talk about something else, but then I remember all the work nights out I’ve ever been on that always degenerate into talk about work. And it beats…
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Meeting up with friends who also have kids..
There are some friends who I just don’t know how we are going to keep seeing because our children just wind each other up.
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