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What’s in a name?
Me. Changing my name. I changed my name recently – getting married can do that to you. The thing is, I keep forgetting. There’s nothing like being unable to place your own name to make other people...
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Would you go abroad without your children?
Photo Credit: Trislander Sunset by Neil Howard Tomorrow morning I am going to board a plane and fly 4,652 miles to Havana, Cuba. Without my daughter. I’ll be with my husband. But not my 19 month...
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One year
One year. How much can happen in a year. On this day, one year ago, I was doing this: It’s been an eventful year. We’ve dealt with Frog’s walking issues, battled my new odd working hours and crammed in...
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Conversations with my husband
We have a deep connection, my husband and I. We discuss the truth of life often and have been known to talk deep into the night about philosophy and the cosmos. The same is true of car journeys....
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What I’ve learned in two years of marriage
Photo Credit: CP Photography It seems hard to believe that I became a wife two years ago today. So much has happened since our wedding day, but it still feels like it was only last week. I can remember...
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A date night
Photo credit: CP Photography This is us, just over two years ago. I married the (self-proclaimed) Northern Love Machine at the end of August in 2011. It was an incredible day. We had fizz and sunshine,...
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What happens on date night stays on date night
This photo was taken at about 10pm last Friday night: I know it was taken at 10pm, because my husband happily posed for the photograph, which means he had consumed around five pints of beer and was...
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Lessons I learned while doing DIY with my husband
Last week proved to be the biggest test to my marriage yet. Forget childbirth, newborn babies and living without a dishwasher. This was far, far worse. We battled through it and came out the other...
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Spoiling the man
The first time I ever kissed the (self-proclaimed) Northern Love Machine it was by a toilet, in a sticky-carpeted nightclub in the romantic hotspot that is Reading. Later, he warned me he wasn’t the...
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How do YOU win Partner Points?
This is a picture of the (self-proclaimed) Northern Love Machine and I, approximately two weeks before I gave birth to our daughter, four years ago. What you can’t see in this picture is my massive...
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Second babies and changing relationships
When you’re pregnant with your first baby, everyone tells you how much your relationship will change when you become a parent. “No more impromptu trips to the pub for you!” they joke. “Gone are the...
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Thoughts on babies, marriage and Making It Work
In a few days I will turn 32 years old. It’s an age where many of my friends are starting to get married, settle down, have kids. And many others are beginning new chapters in their lives, as newly...
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The power of “us time”
This might seem like a really obvious thing to say, but you know how when you have kids time sort of retracts and constricts, so that you need to cram in a gazillion more things into any given day...
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How to keep a marriage alive when you have kids
I’ll tell you what this post isn’t about. It’s not about how #blessed I am or how amazing my “hubby” is or what a perfect team we make or anything else that might come across as mildly smug that will...
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A parents’ date night with a difference
I should get one thing out of the way before I go any further. I’m not a fan of the term “date night”. It seems a bit trite and a bit not very “us” as a couple. However, for the purpose of this post...
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It’s the little things
It’s the little things that make a relationship work. Once you’re past the initial heady excitement of butterflies in the stomach and awe at every funny thing your partner says, you’re left with the...
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Valentine’s Day as a parent – a retrospective
I’m not sure when it started to happen. Somewhere between the sleepless nights and the toddler chaos, the end of the month stresses about money or the evenings tied to the sofa – and our computer...
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What happened when we went to Paris (without the kids)
Ah Paris, the city of love. Unless you go there with a slightly grumpy northern husband who hates being made to stop every two minutes to pose for a photo. Grumpy husband aside, we had a fantastic...
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