• A love letter

    I planned to do all sorts of things this weekend.I planned to do a wonderful Valentines blog post to launch a new regular feature on this blog, one that other bloggers could join in with.I planned to share the love. To inspire and give back.But […]

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  • Say what? “For a Dirty Toilet User…”

    A continuation of the Wordless Wednesday theme: it contains lots of words and is not published on a Wednesday! I was looking for an appropriate image to accompany a new feature on love letters. And came across this. The opposite of a love letter! A […]

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  • Boxes, boxes…

    I have always said that I am not someone who fits into boxes. I despair of questionnaire people (is there a proper word for them?) knocking on my door, trying to get me to answer which box I fit into, for example: employed, unemployed, housewife… […]

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  • My Priceless Parenting Resource

    Welcome to the February Carnival of Natural Parenting: Parenting EssentialsThis post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have shared the parenting essentials that they could not live without. […]

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  • A New World: Can we Build Utopia in the Real World?

    “For most the Recession is a depressing prospect, one of a tide of history going out carrying with it a lot of dead fish, driftwood and garbage. For me, it is a tide coming in full of opportunities… Incoming tides can also, of course, swamp […]

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  • Guest Blogger on The Anti-Room today

    The election date is set. The parties have launched their election campaigns. Let the gender battle commence…How do you decide who to vote for?To read the full article visit:http://theantiroom.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/guest-post-the-double-x-factor/ Just stopped by from The Anti-Room? Welcome to Dreaming Aloud! Here are some previous posts that might interest […]

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  • Joy Pockets

    the loan of a writing shed in the woods beside my house catkins making a birds nest red velvet cake a tonne of writing commissions sharing food with friends filling our pockets with hidden conkersthe weekend coming round…again giggles love What are Joy Pockets anyway? […]

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  • Happy Spring

    It seems like after the fun and frolics of Christmas and New Year the celebrations calendar dries up for months, except for the pink ruffle of Valentines Day. Easter celebrations seem a long way off. But then, like buses, in two days four celebrations come up at […]

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  • Wordless Wednesday

    Except it’s lots of words…and it’s not quite Wednesday!! A five-year-old’s recipe… Wee and  Some Poo And some brown sugar Whisk Peanut Butter Butter Don’t stink! Written all by himself on freezer labels and stuck on the fridge, whilst I was cooking Peanut Butter Blondies […]

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  • Jesus in a spaceship

    My son started at the local school this September. 95% of Irish schools are Catholic. Irish schools have a required 30 minutes daily religious instruction. However, we are not religious. How will this work we wonder… And so today, a conversation started in our house. “Who […]

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