Elliot is obsessed with paper airplanes at the minute. Every remotely foldable piece of anything is handed to me: ‘Please make into paper airplane, Mummy?’ I’ve used magazine subscription inserts, construction paper, pages torn from Anthropologie catalogues – anything and everything. My own paper airplane engineering skills were clearly not doing it anymore, so I …
Did you know that in 1949, mothers across Canada went door to door asking for ‘just a dime’ to fund the fight against polio? I didn’t. A terrifying disease that disabled of hundreds of thousands of children and adults every year until a massive vaccination programme pretty much cleared the disease from the global population. …
The Magic of Santa Last Christmas passed in a bit of a whirl. I wasn’t comfortable enough in the city yet to figure out where we should go. This year, however, I feel much more prepared. There are a few things I’m looking forward to sharing with Elliot, now 3 years old, who is just …
Christmas is a bit of Things Explosion. I’m not going to get all minimalist ‘let’s jet off to India for six weeks and just bring a carry-on bag between four people’. It’s not even ‘smash the state, man, they just want us to buy things to support their dirty corporate agenda to make us all …
Elliot likes making things. Elliot somehow amasses toys. I’m not sure how, because we really don’t buy that many for him. When Christmas rolls around, I’ve been asking our family to give him gift certificates towards classes or drop-ins, rather than things. At three years old, I know we’re reaching the end of when that …
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