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Essential Facts About Summer
Wasps, magpie shit on the barbecue, the kids trying to drown each other and The Orange People. Rachael Smart's essential facts about summer.
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Christmas TV: Festive Ad(sub)verts
Here’s Motherload blogger Rachael Smart's take on three annoying Christmas TV adverts that had her reaching for the off button.
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The Motherload Book Club: Our November Bookshelf
The Lightkeepers by Abby Geni If you like photography and the wilderness, The Lightkeepers will hit the right aesthetic notes. This psychological thriller is driven by rootlessness and the ease of human deception. Miranda is a nature photographer who functions best…
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The Motherload Book Club: Our October Bookshelf
What We're Teaching Our Sons by Owen Booth This book is unlike anything I’ve ever read. Written in the first-person plural, narrated by ‘the dads’, it explores the father/son relationship in a way that’s fresh and honest, and which swings…
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I’m Not Your Valentine
We know that real love is your partner doing the school run when you’ve got the shits.
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Merry Christmas ‘Ya Greedy Animals
Now I’ve got my own children, I’m grateful for the simplicity childhood taught me...
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The Thing About Autumn
Wearing tights in the chilly morning and having a tropical groin climate by noon...
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The Blue Peter BIG Badge Boat Bonanza
We had a serious bash at the BIG Badge Boat bonanza but I’m no crafty mum so it all went to shit fairly quickly...