Ellenarnison

LATEST ARTICLES ( 927 )

• Guest Post: on Depression and Talking Therapies

  

  Caron Lindsay who blogs at Caron's Musings responds to news that Nick Clegg has ring fenced £400million to help people with depression and anxiety with a... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Guest Post: On Depression and Cancer...

  

  Audrey Birt, Director for Scotland of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, was herself recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She has written this piece to join in the... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Guest Post: It Was the Summer of 2011 and the City Streets Were Burning.

  

  Michelle White has sent this piece in to join in the mental health carnival. It was the summer of 2011 and the city streets were burning. People called it a... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Be Adventurous with Your Child's Name - It'll Make All the Difference

  Do you imagine great things for your children? Of course you do. Your little darling is going to make history, be famous and probably save the planet. How... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Facebook Folly: I Like Them on My Chest and Lump-free

  

  It's come round again. That time of year when women post silly suggestive things as their Facebook status apparently to bewilder poor men and raise awareness... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Scotland: My Creeping Unease in the Country I Call Home

  

  Earlier this week I read a post at Is There A Plan B. it was called this time it's personal and talked about her feelings about the independence referendum. Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Review: Hotter Boots and Fringe Benefits

  

  "Would you like to try a pair of our boots?" Erm. Let me think about it... Yes. My answer is quite likely to include bears and popes because I like a boot... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• How Hairy McLary Came to the Rescue in a Bad Case of Transitionitis

  

  Each time my big boys come back from seeing their dad there is tension, in fact that's something of an understatement - there is shouty, grumpy, tearful... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Colour Blind: What's a Black Man, Mummy?

  

  The other day, after overhearing a news report, my older kids, nine and twelve, asked who Stephen Lawrence was. So, I explained. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Frugal Fun: Who Would Want to Live in a House Like This?

  

  So we are all a little bit skint these days. Being broke is becoming trendy, a but like having a decking fired or starting a blog. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Come to My Mental Health Carnival for Blog Posts

  

  Later this month I'm hosting a blog carnival and the subject is mental heath. This is not as one wag suggested "where we all mentally get dressed in feathers an... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Blogging: Must I Really Go Niche?

  

  The tree on the green that blew down in Scotland's Son of Bawbag storm The road to online success is niche, everyone says so. In fact, I've said so myself, in... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Frugal Fun: Things You Can Do with an Old Mouse Mat...

  

  Having fun up a hill! Right. I'm fed up of this now - this dismal miserable credit crunch, downturn, depression business. Every time I listen to the news some... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Why Does New Year's Eve Make Me Cry?

  

  So I'm sending a happy new year greetings from Scotland a country that can mo celebrates the event with a particular gusto. Over the years I've seen Hogmanays i... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Does Your Child's Teacher Call You?

  

  Learning the ropes as a parent And do you care? If someone from school has to ring you up, who do they as for? Do they ask for so-and-so's mom or do they use... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Mother’s Twelve Days of Christmas

  

  On the first day of Christmas,My family sent to meA list of things for under the tree (The first sign of the approaching season, “just watch this advert mum” an... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• 'Tis the Season for Great Resourcefulness Or the Sanitary Product Whiskers and...

  

  Isn't it wonderful, the little ones all wide-eyed at the magic of the season? Boy Three, at two and a half, is just getting his head round the idea that a fat... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Review: How Happy Hopperz Make Kids Hop Happily

  

  Happy Hopperz are like space hoppers only better. They are designed for the under threes, come in animal shapes and bright colours. We were sent a red cow for... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• What Shape is Your Family?

  

  That is my family in the picture. Or most of them. The picture was taken after a fantastic family weekend to celebrate my mother’s 70th this summer. Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Review: Regatta Splosh All-in-one, for the Ambitious Puddle Jumper

  

  Boy Three loves a puddle – one of his favorite things is to leap two-footed into the deepest one he can find. He also loves playing out with his brothers,... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION