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Another Great NCT Sale, Coming Soon!
Posted on 4:20pm Tuesday 13th July 2010
It's a Nearly New Sale with a difference! Just in time for the Summer Holidays, an NCT Nearly New Sale with a focus on TOYS, TOYS, TOYS!
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Bournemouth is Just Too Beautiful to Stay Indoors Writing...
Posted on 1:00pm Tuesday 8th June 2010
At least, that's my story!
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NCT Nearly New Sale, This Saturday!
Posted on 6:28pm Thursday 22nd April 2010
NEARLY NEW SALE Broadstone & Corfe Mullen St John the Baptist Church Hall, Macaulay Road, Broadstone Saturday 24th April 2010 10am – 11.30am A Sale of Nearly New, Good Quality Nursery Equipment, Baby and Children’s Clothes, (0-10 years) Toys, Books and Games. Admission £2 to include coffee (in aid of NCT Charity)
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IS It A Blackbird, Or A Starling?
Posted on 10:47pm Thursday 15th April 2010
“Do you see that bird, over there?” When Rabbit has a cunning plan to kidnap Roo, Kanga must be persuaded to take her eyes off Roo for just a moment. This is not easy: Kanga NEVER takes her eyes off Roo, not even to listen to Pooh’s poetry. But finally, she does, to see whether there is a blackbird, or a starling, in the tree.
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In Which We Lose A Phone And Two Children, But Find Adventure On Brownsea Island
Posted on 10:15pm Tuesday 6th April 2010
You know it’s been an unusually action-packed Easter Holiday when you wake at dawn on Sunday morning to find two small, worried faces nose-to-nose with you.
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What's Been Going On
Posted on 2:24pm Thursday 18th March 2010
A couple of weeks ago, I asked my fellow mad breastfeeders to tell me what they thought made us all breastfeed for over a year. I got such a wonderful response! A condensed version of what everyone said is HERE at GNM Parents.
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Support Portchester School's Sports Hall!
Posted on 5:03pm Sunday 28th February 2010
My eldest son goes to Portchester School. It was the only secondary school that had the space to take him when we registered in September, and as he's a resilient and sensible boy, I ignored friends' advice to "Oh, NO! You have to get him into a private school!" I sent him off to Portchester, and crossed my fingers.
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Breastfeeding: How Do Some Mothers Successfully Meet WHO Guidelines?
Posted on 4:13pm Thursday 25th February 2010
The WHO stipulates that all babies must be breastfed exclusively for six months, and that breastfeeding should continue for two years and beyond.
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My Carnival
Posted on 3:14pm Saturday 13th February 2010
It's Carnival weekend in Trinidad, peeps! This IS a big deal, and yes it IS the Best Party On Earth. I know people who are paying thousands of pounds to get on a plane, arrive on Monday morning, party till Wednesday morning, and then get back on a plane here.
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Do YOU Pick Up Your Poop?
Posted on 2:44pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010
I’ve been sunning myself in warmer climes, my fans! Did you miss me? I took my youngest son, who has been so homesick, and we attended a wedding and got hugged by grandmas and hiked sweatily in the beautiful rainforest of Brasso Seco.
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School Daze
Posted on 8:20pm Friday 15th January 2010
Wherever I’ve been in the world, people have complained about the education system. It’s never right, being “backward, overly academic, not academic enough, stifling to creativity, dull for the gifted, impossible for the challenged, stamping out originality” or “beginning too late” or “too early”, depending upon who you talk to.
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We Can Still Do Without TV
Posted on 3:32pm Friday 8th January 2010
It’s dark outside, though it’s still early in the afternoon. This is the time of year I was thinking of when I said, “Yes, maybe we’ll get TV when we move. We’ll see.”
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Falling Over On Ice: Some Of Us Do It For Fun!
Posted on 12:49pm Sunday 3rd January 2010
It’s coooold out there, and there’s ice on the roads. Some of us complain bitterly that the icy roads and pavements has to be someone’s fault, and pontificate at length.
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A Happy New Decade!
Posted on 3:39pm Thursday 31st December 2009
When we were first making plans to move to England, one burning question the boys kept asking was, “What about Christmas?”
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Snow, Ice And Other Very Cool Stuff
Posted on 12:10pm Monday 21st December 2009
We’re Tropical Creatures, accustomed to warm days and nights all year, and the sun rising and setting at six. Getting used to the long days of English August was fun for us, with many late night discussions on whether we can stay up and WHY NOT if the sun is up?
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Other People's Children
Posted on 9:29pm Tuesday 15th December 2009
One of the best things about Christmas is all of the tiny nephews and nieces and cousins and friends we get to visit, and have over. They are a joy, their Christmas excitement is contagious, and they confirm for me that I'm all done having babies. I am posting a piece here this week that I've posted elsewhere before, which is naughty, but with Christmas descending upon us here I haven't the brain cells to make any sense otherwise. (Too much fudge? Too much wine? Who knows?) Merry Christmas all!
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Nan Sheppard is a wife, mother of three boys, writer and housework avoider, and also writes at Things I've Found In Pockets.
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