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Category: Advent

December 18, 2017 helenlouisechandler

Avoiding Festive Fatigue

December 4, 2017 helenlouisechandler

Advent Weekend

December 19, 2016December 19, 2016 helenlouisechandler

Let there be peace on earth…

December 24, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Twenty-Fourth Day of Advent: Christmas

December 23, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Twenty-third Day of Advent: Holidays

December 22, 2015December 22, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Twenty-second Day of Advent: My extended family

December 21, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Twenty-first Day of Advent: London

December 20, 2015December 20, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Twentieth Day of Advent: Me-time

December 19, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Nineteenth Day of Advent: My home

December 18, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Eighteenth Day of Advent: Food

December 17, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Seventeenth Day of Advent: Friends

December 16, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Sixteenth Day of Advent: The school Christmas Show

December 15, 2015December 15, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Fifteenth Day of Advent: Walthamstow

December 14, 2015December 14, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Fourteenth Day of Advent: Henry Cat

December 13, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Thirteenth Day of Advent: Baking

December 12, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Twelfth Day of Advent: New York

December 11, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Eleventh Day of Advent: Writing

December 10, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Tenth Day of Advent: Cornwall

December 9, 2015December 10, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Ninth Day of Advent: Social Media

December 8, 2015December 10, 2015 helenlouisechandler

Eighth day of Advent: My parents

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Took the 7yo with me on the March of the Mummies this morning. I want her, and my 13yo daughter, to grow up in a world where there isn't a gender pay gap, where childcare doesn't cost a working family more than their housing, where dads get to play an equal part in raising their children, where adoptive parents aren't penalised, where women don't have to terminate a wanted pregnancy because they can't afford childcare.
Scampering through the autumn leaves in Calderstones Park, stop for a hot chocolate, and then helping Grandad make a bug mansion (bug hotels are so passe!) back at home. Gorgeous October.
Compulsory Pride face glitter selfie!
Girls' weekend in Brighton. Champagne, cocktails and carousels, an early(ish) morning swim, the Pride parade, a mooch around the shops, sitting in the sunny courtyard garden, bleary pyjama-clad pastry eating round the kitchen table, getting all dressed up to go and eat delicious Italian food and listen to drag queens doing karaoke. Spending time with some of my favourite humans in the world.
We had lunch @pizzaexpress on Saturday, and my 6yo was very taken with the competition on the Piccolo menu to compose some Christmas song lyrics. She has come home and given it a lot of thought, before coming up with this (to be sung to the tune of Jingle Bells). The prize is a family meal at Pizza Express, and she is very excited about winning it and getting to take us all out for dinner. Not winning hasn't really occurred to her as a possibility...
Happy 1st of December! (I hope I haven't set the bar so the children expect a novelty breakfast every morning of Advent...)

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