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September 23, 2021 helenlouisechandler

Sustainable(ish)

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The power of the ping

February 13, 2021 helenlouisechandler

Club 40

December 20, 2019 helenlouisechandler

Christmas holidays

September 9, 2019 helenlouisechandler

A summer without social media

April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 helenlouisechandler

Restoration

May 3, 2018 helenlouisechandler

Letters for my daughters

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 helenlouisechandler

The anxiety bitch

January 5, 2018January 5, 2018 helenlouisechandler

Back to normality

December 18, 2017 helenlouisechandler

Avoiding Festive Fatigue

August 21, 2017 helenlouisechandler

Beside the seaside

July 13, 2017 helenlouisechandler

How to be good?

June 5, 2017 helenlouisechandler

Beside the seaside

May 8, 2017May 8, 2017 helenlouisechandler

Gratitude

January 31, 2017January 31, 2017 helenlouisechandler

Being Kind

August 23, 2016August 23, 2016 helenlouisechandler

National Trust: Speke Hall

July 11, 2016 helenlouisechandler

Wake up and smell the roses

May 9, 2016 helenlouisechandler

Literal sunshine and metaphorical showers

February 20, 2016February 20, 2016 helenlouisechandler

February Blues

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Twenty-Fourth Day of Advent: Christmas

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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...)
Inset day for the 6yo, so we have headed to Wonder Lab at @the.science.museum which is one of our favourite trips together. Exploring resistance, bridge-building, tesselating patterns and centripetal force.
This is what getting ready to go and see Nanna and Grandad for half term looks like in 2021!
Day 16 - Saturday. This Saturday looks like a 5 mile walk to a Cotswolds country pub, whilst on a mini break celebrating 22 years together with (and 11 years married to!) this lovely man.
Day 12 - Make. My 12yo is obsessed with #GBBO and likes to bake along each week, so she makes cake in cake week, biscuits in biscuit week and so on. Tonight is desert week, and she made treacle tart. I am very excited as it's a real favourite of mine.

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