Ellenarnison

LATEST ARTICLES ( 927 )

• Shopping for Shoes

  Having a wide selection of shoes to choose from in one's wardrobe is an important part of accessorising and looking one's best at all times. Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Grooving on Forward...

  

  Right. Are you going in the right direction? Stepping out? Heading forward? Following your nose? In fact, are you going in any direction or just in small... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• How Can You Cure a Rising Inflection?

  

  And that is a question. It has a question mark at the end, giving it permission to rise when spoken. However, it's getting confusing so many speakers seem... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Children's Books I Loathe

  

  At the head of the queue is that curious monkey George. That irritating primate does my head in with his cute banana-fuelled antics in a chocolate factory (or... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Schadenfreud and Shoe Names

  

  I once bought some nail varnish just because of its name. Schadenfreude. How could it fail? It didn't matter what it looked like, it was nail paint with... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Burns Night: What Are You Going to Do?

  

  January 25 is Burns Night. Traditionally folk would get together and recite Robert Burns' poems, eat haggis and drink whisky. Now none of those things is wrong... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Team Honk Goes the Length of the Country – Plus One Mile!

  

  Thumbs up Matt So there you are one morning minding your own business and thinking that life is really rather dull. Then the next day, you’re running through th... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Mikaeel Kular's Murder: Let's Not Do Trial by Twitter

  

  Tragic little Mikaeel Kular. It's an awful tale of a beautiful little boy, a desperate search and, finally, the saddest of endings. Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Johnnie Boden and I - a Love-hate Relationship

  

  It all started so well. More than a decade ago (ok nearly 15 years), back in the days I still thought attending mums and toddlers groups were a reasonable use o... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fridge Post Part 2: How to Deliver a Fridge

  

  When the whole new fridge idea began, it all seemed so simple. A few calls, I go to work, Panther takes delivery of new fridge, food gets chilled, everyone... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• The Perils of the Sleepover...

  

  We've had sleepovers as a birthday celebration for Boy Two for a few years now. Last year, with the kids sleeping in two rooms I eventually had to turn off the... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Team Honk Scotland - the One with the Questions...

  

  One Saturday morning in March you'll find me wet, cold and probably making a fool of myself. However, it's all for charity so that's OK then. I'm taking part... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Things I Need to Teach My Children...

  

  That's my Boy Two sewing his own Scout badges on. He looked horrified when I suggested it: "But I don't know how. I've never learned." "No time like the... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Appliances Direct - How Not to Deliver a Fridge

  

  We've had the fridge-freezer for a while. Nine years actually. And lately it had been quite clear that we needed to put it out of its misery before too long. Th... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Sunshine: That's Better

  

  It really has felt like the rain never stopped and the sky never darkened. At the time I never feel like I'm affected by the weather, but really I must be. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Book Group Reading Suggestions for 2014 Please...

  

  It's time for the book group I attend to choose it's reading list for 2014. We try to have a mixture of new, old and non-fiction... something for everyone and... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Son is Top of the Crops Again

  

  Who, I hear you cry, is that handsome chap? He's Boy One, just back from a surprising visit to the barber. For months he has hung on to his increasingly bushy... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• I Am to Nursing What Spaghetti is to Space Exploration

  

  The Panther is somewhat hors de combat at the moment. His graceful leap from the patio step ended unfortunately in some imaginative swearing and a lateral... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Classic Films to Make Your Kids Watch, Even If They Roll Their Eyes.

  

  My modern children like a movie, preferably one with loud bangs, violence and enormous buckets of popcorn, surround sound (whatever that actually is) and at... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• In Praise of Adoptive Parents

  

  Among my friends and family at the moment a couple of families have welcomed a child by adoption. (Not the same child, obviously.) I am proud and impressed. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2014 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION