At this time of year I get asked to do various craft shows and I do them with half a mind for doing a larger one someday. I generally have a good day but it’s not by just turning up and hoping for the best. A lot of thought goes into to before hand and it takes time…
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Free but is it?
Recently we’ve had to think a lot about our childcare arrangements. No 1 goes to pre-school in September and is eligible for her free placement. And while I don’t want to seem like I’m turning my nose up at free childcare as it’s currently our biggest outgoing every month I’m not sure of the value…
Divide and Conquer
The trick to finding having a toddler and a new baby a breeze is to have a toddler and twins. When you have twins you feel like you should keep them together, you should do with one what you are doing with the other. Today, however we started a new swimming class and decided to…
Plate spinning, a conversation with a stranger and a to do list.
I’m basically back to work. My maternity leave partly ended about three days after the boys were born and I had to deal with some things that came up. My first shift in the shop was the late night event on the 23rd when the boys were 3 weeks old and I still wasn’t back…
Who?
This week, on the 7th of April, its World Health Day. On this and every day the World Health Organisation raises and pushes for UHC but what really does that mean. Universal health coverage means individuals and populations receive access to all the essential health services they need without being pushed into poverty. When I looked at…
November 29th, 2017
Years ago me and my Friend Liana were travelling in India and had a very weird experience. Everywhere we went people wanted to take our photo. We were very curious about this and wondered what on earth they were going to do with a photo of two random white girls. The sceptics might think it…
I stand with Egypt
It was quickly overshadowed by news of a royal engagement but at the weekend the news channels reported the death of over 300 people in Egypt. I don’t look at the news religiously and I’m fairly taken a back that there is no global condemnation, no hashtag trending and no temporary flag over profile pictures.…
Pride comes before a fall…
“Why do we want all these people from ‘shithole countries’ coming here?”It is a phase that has been denied but has this week sparked a lot of press coverage. In a country where over 60% of their citizens don’t have a passport is it hard to believe that there is a lack of awareness of anything outside their own…
The List
The list that I am going by is 193 countries – currently 40 * and the Vatican This is made up of the 192 UN member states and The Vatican City. This list is sovereign states and doesn’t not include places like Palestine,Taiwan and Kosovo that are fighting for inclusion. It also doesn’t include all…