Advice for my former self

Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 29th, 2013
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I’m quite good at time travel. It’s easy, as long as you only want to go forwards

Now that I’m working on the final module of my MEd, I found myself wondering what advice I would offer myself if I could travel back to the start.

1. Nothing is more important than sleep and [...]

2012: That was the year that was…

Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: January 1st, 2013
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It’s been an eventful year – but I’m sure that’s true for everyone. Despite the normal good intentions, I’ve barely posted, so here’s a quick catch up on the big events:

Mr TLC was declared recovered and discharged from the hospital back in March. We celebrated by buying Mr TLC a new bike. His return [...]

Dancing with Death

Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: December 30th, 2012
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Picture the scene: a real ale pub on the night that a convention/festival of morris dancers was in town. Those of us who thought we had the night off had received frantic phone calls and emergency taxis to get us to work. It was quite busy. Actually, it was insane, but in a cheerily joyous [...]

Let them eat hedgehog

Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: June 10th, 2012
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It’s not only the Queen who gets two birthdays, apparently very excited four year olds can do that too. Last weekend was the family do, with a kitten cake that turned out to be a mouse. This weekend a princess-themed children’s party had been planned. A princess theme? Blimey, I didn’t realise Granddaughter Mr [...]

Please be upstanding

Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 9th, 2012
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I woke up with a very sore knee today. Probable cause: too many hours sitting at my desk, something that was on the agenda again today. Hmm.

My solution was a spot of DIY. I pulled out the unused bookshelf that lurks under the bed, popped it on top of a couple of open drawers [...]

Learning to dance in the rain

Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 16th, 2012
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“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

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It seems such a short lifetime ago that I blogged on my teachery site about how good it was to get back to normal. Remind me, what exactly is normal anyway?

We started the half term [...]

The End Is Nigh

Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: October 25th, 2011
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It’s seemed like a long time, but finally, the end is in sight.

Back in June, when his well and truly broken leg was pinned together, Mr TLC was told it would be 4-6 months before the frame could be removed – assuming everything went well. He had five months fixed in his head, I [...]

Milestones

Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: August 25th, 2011
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Mr TLC starts to get mobile, including walking from the kitchen to the living room using only one crutch. Result.  This momentous step forward marks Mr TLC’s return to being a maker of copious cups of tea.

Mr TLC’s latest x-ray shows signs of the bones starting to heal. Woohoo!

I conquer the paper mountain [...]

Mr TLC doesn’t have a leg to stand on

Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: July 20th, 2011
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Mr TLC is not a man to be outdone. Oh no.

Mr TLC obviously felt that Super Mum had not tested the services of the NHS rigorously enough, so he decided to take on a spot of testing himself.

It started with a bang, the sort of bang made by a man who has [...]

Three

Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: June 4th, 2011
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It’s the start of June, which means that Mr TLC’s granddaughter is 3. Where does the time go? It also means that I get to play at baking birthday cakes. Actually, this year I get to do it twice – once for the family do, once for the kids’ party in a few days time. [...]

 
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