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Yuck! Cleaning, cleaning and yet more cleaning

  • Emma
  • November 2, 2019
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  •  health and wellbeing

I wrote this post over two and half years ago then made it Private when I friended my landlady, who might then have found this blog. Since then, we’ve moved out and she’s busy trying to take our deposit for cleaning, which as far as I’m concerned is absolutely taking the piss given the state […]

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Why You Need to Know about Processionary Caterpillars

  • Emma
  • April 9, 2018
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  •  creepy crawlies, health and wellbeing, Pets, safety, spring

It’s Spring, at last (at least it was a few days ago – it’s raining again today and feeling more like Autumn again, but hey ho.) At this time of year everything comes alive and the ground starts crawling with critters. Most of these are harmless, friendly even, but then there are a few others […]

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Yuck! Cleaning, cleaning and yet more cleaning

  • Emma
  • April 25, 2017
  • 1 Comment
  •  health and wellbeing

Before I write anything else I want to make one thing clear: I am by no means a clean freak. Friends will testify to this – a few, those with tendencies towards OCD on the cleaning front, sometimes found visiting our old house challenging; well, there was always something more interesting to do than cleaning! […]

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No furniture, thank you

  • Emma
  • April 4, 2017
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  •  health and wellbeing

I’m sitting here on the rug, fidgeting around to try and get comfy. My back aches (we had a marathon feeding session at bed time), my legs ache (we walked to the park and back yesterday and I carried DS on my back and the rucksack on my front), and I’m shattered. We have this […]

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Measles and the Anti-Vac Mood in France

  • Emma
  • January 22, 2017
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  •  France, health and wellbeing, parenting

Something I hadn’t considered at all when moving was that there might be different attitudes to health outside of the UK. A different language and culture I expected, or course, but as far as health goes I’d generally heard that the French have an excellent (albeit not free) healthcare system and as such had no […]

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