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Category Archives: Beta Mum’s Blog
Pollitt on Platte
Illustration: Satoshi Kambayashi Michael Pollitt has popped up on Platte today – in the Guardian, rather than as Platte are wont to do – on your PC. It seems the OFT are looking into at least one aspect of the … Continue reading
Business Continuity
I spent much of this afternoon as a refugee from an evacuated building, seeking a computer terminal on which to ply my trade. I found one, and it was actually a lot faster than the one I normally use. But … Continue reading
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Wetter than Glastonbury
It was a week before Glastonbury weekend, and we still found ourselves packing up a damp tent in the gaps between heavy showers. It certainly doesn’t seem like a year has passed since we last risked Dartmoor under canvas. Loyal, … Continue reading
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Tagged camping, Glastonbury, Hash House Harriers, hashing, River Dart Park, TVH3
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Hitching a ride
The last time Blog Fodder hitched a ride he looked like this. He now has less hair, and, one would have thought, more sense. But no. He’s just hitched 6 lifts to get from Norwich to the East Midlands. And … Continue reading
Car Seat
I mentioned this book the other week, and now I’ve had a chance to flick through it. It features a lot of child-focused travelling experiences, some of which I’m mighty glad were not mine. Like the plane trip suffered by … Continue reading
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Tagged , holidays kids, how to fit a car seat on a camel, travelling children
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Not in Front of the Children
We were brought up short by our son the other day. We were in the middle of an argument. Not a particularly serious one, but one of those tired, irritable bickering kinds of arguments you get into sometimes. Well we … Continue reading
Same but different
Before we moved, Ben said – “I’ll make just the same mess in Jersey.” And Hannah said – “I thought I’d live in Plymouth all my life and now I’m being cut out of it.” Well, both are partly right. … Continue reading
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Tagged , auction, car ownership, haute tombette, house price index, Jersey
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Haircuts hardly happen
When is it time for a hair-do? When you can tuck your former fringe behind your ears? When you have to wash your hair every single day just to make it look half-way decent? (I apologise to all those people, … Continue reading
HD – Habitually Delayed
Remember this picture? They’ve struck again. To be fair, since Blog Fodder’s last rant, which was actually about a different ferry company, HD Ferries have refunded our fare for the cancelled trip and given us a compensatory free trip. Which … Continue reading
Peer Pressure
One of my pet hates is the use of the word “haitch” when what the speaker means is “aitch”. Apologies to those of you who put an “aitch” at the front of the letter “aitch”, but you’re adding a letter … Continue reading