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Month: January 2017

Arts

Holidays with kids

30th January 2017 Going Postal 0

The lovely description of his normal family life by our Flying Hippo (Humdrum and proud!) inspired me to put fingers to keyboard (no, The Princess does not put her paws to keyboard, that’s beneath her!) [more…]

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America

Humdrum and proud!

28th January 2017 Going Postal 0

I can’t really moan about my lot – I have a good middle management job, a teacher wife of 15 years and three kids under 8. I think we have done a reasonable job with [more…]

Sweaty Dave, Going Postal
Cooking

Baking bread with Going Postal

8th January 2017 Sweaty Dave 0

With Christmas now history, I put to you, what has been your most useful/favourite Christmas present in recent years? For me, it was not last year’s set of kitchen knives and four cans of special [more…]

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