musings – Rebecca E Brown

One of the greatest traditions my mother ever passed on to me is that of the ‘Sticky Bun Moment’, the

The first time I really met the Queen, she was in her bedroom. I must have been around 8, perhaps,

Before we go too far, a warning. In the words of Baz Luhrmann, ‘[nostalgia] is a way of fishing the

It’s around 1983, maybe 1984, and my goodness, my arms ache. I have been practicing my very first starring role

I’m huffing up the stairs, socks straggling and escaping from the jumble in my arms. Every two steps one piece

Today was a landmark day. Today, I finally returned to the lowest weight that I have recorded, the weight I

There’s a myth that’s been around for a few years and I’m coming to realise how damaging it is, on

For various reasons I’ve been considering the relationship between leisure and relaxation. I suppose everybody has a basic definition of

When Amazon announced last year that they were bringing out a tablet, I was very excited. I got my Kindle

In my previous blog posts, discussions, comments, etc, I have been very careful to say that I have no answers

It’s a while since I did a post on anything other than parenting or writing or any kind of rant

Many of my Twitter friends this week have children going through exams – A-Levels and SATS to be specific. I

This is a quick-ish post, in response to some family circumstances that I’m sure are echoed throughout the country. We

If you listen to what I witter on about regularly you might know that I’m a staunch pacifist. I do

So, yesterday you got your GCSE results – congratulations! In all seriousness, whatever your results were, well done. There is

I’m in a reminiscing mood at the minute. It could be new-mother-hormones, or it could be due to the fact

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