Photo album for January 2019
New Year’s Day 2019 – how else is a girl supposed to watch YouTube these days? My most popular 9 of 2018. Common themes are Daniel starting at Durham Johnston and Emily bending over backwards. Big brother celebrating his (belated) 40th birthday presents. Can’t believe my brother is 40!! Daniel :) See, what happened, was… Read more
Photo album December 2018
And here comes Christmas! Hot chocolate and happy sighs :D It’s so much fun, when Christmas comes to town… A cold and frosty morning at school yesterday! I haz treated myself to my ‘official’ dissertation notebook Emily fell asleep reading Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls last night :) It just wouldn’t be xbox without a… Read more
What makes a good father?
Reflections on fatherhood for Father’s Day 2017 What makes a good father? I’m sure almost everyone asks themselves this question at some point, whether it’s in curiosity, or panic, or even self-congratulation. Since Beloved Husband first became a father almost ten years ago, I have had the privilege of seeing what makes a good father and… Read more
Profits vs people
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I remember being in my early teens, and seeing a tv show about car seatbelts, and how the manufacturers of the car decided not to put extra seatbelts in the pop-up seats in the boot because it was too expensive. Yes, there was a risk of a passenger in these seats being seriously hurt or… Read more
General Election 2017, from the point of view of a partial and prejudiced observer.
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Well, that was… interesting. When the election was called, way back whenever, we were full of gloom and misery, sure that the country was about to be doomed to another five years of Tory rule and to the total annihilation of the Labour party. I have loved the idea of Jeremy Corbyn being Prime Minister since he… Read more