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It came in like a wrecking ball
You know when your baby is a bad sleeper and you only realise you'd actually had some sleep when your nights are broken? That's how I...


Nellie Knows : 5 October 2016
This was previously published in The Wokingham Paper Last week was one of those weeks that didn’t start well but ended well and truly on...
I'm just ......
When I ask my offspring to empty the dishwasher / bring their washing down / do a chore I'm met with "I'm just" and my heart sinks. ....
Time is a healer
A song came on the radio on Tuesday as I was driving and before I could blink the tears started rolling down my cheeks. Big fat tears of...


Holidays in New Quay, West Wales
In August last year we holidayed in West Wales, we loved it so much that this year the May half term was spent in the same place in New...
On writing
Right. I am by no means a writer, I write words that I hope people will enjoy and might resonate with the reader, some might switch off...


Nellie Knows : 26 August 2016
This first appeared in The Wokingham Paper on Friday 26 August 2016 Whilst my local friends were rewinding in Henley dressed in ra ra...
Scuffed shoes and muddy knees
Today was the first day of term, a biggie in the world of new terms in our house as the smallest and loudest has left behind the...


Moving on
Well it's not long until my youngest and smallest heads off to senior school. She's fine about it as her big sister is still there and...


Wildflower Bay by Rachael Lucas
Who wouldn't want to be in Wildflower Bay, an away from it idyll on the cusp of change with a snip of the hairdresser scissors. Rachael...


