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Mar.11.2012 - 12:16 pm
While I Nurse You To Sleep...
While I nurse you to sleep... I...rest.  For the first time today, I am still.  I am not lifting, carrying, holding, bending, reaching, stretching, scrubbing,...
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Feb.20.2012 - 5:57 am
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: Book Review and Giveaway
Amy Chua's memoir was an international bestseller when first published a year ago, and caused a storm of controversy. The book, a description of her approach to raising her two...
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Aug.26.2011 - 11:54 am
Amazon - We Find Child Abuse 'Offensive'
The world's biggest bookseller, Amazon, has a policy not to carry material with offensive content.  In their policy description, they say, 'What we deem offensive is...
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Jul.04.2011 - 1:36 pm
Pressure Washing Shadows
My opposite neighbours, an orderly couple in their sixties, have for the past week been engaged from dawn til dusk in the task of Pressure Washing.  It started, innocently enough...
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Comments from Milli

Jul.06.2011 - 10:03 am
In response to: Pressure Washing Shadows
thanks so much for reading
thanks so much for reading christine and for your honest comments. i must watch that film, i keep hearing about it but...
May.22.2011 - 12:24 pm
In response to: Toddler Tourism
thank you!
thank you so much barbara for this comment. it's really interesting to hear about your mother...i often genuinely...
May.21.2011 - 1:13 pm
In response to: Toddler Tourism
thanks!
thanks for this comment susan - i replied initially in the wrong place! - but wanted to say that i am new to the red...
May.18.2011 - 11:42 pm
In response to: Toddler Tourism
thank you susan, i am new to
thank you susan, i am new to the red room, so it was a lovely suprise to find your comment! x
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About Milli

I am the mother of two very small girls and am often guilty of too much thinking and not enough hoovering.  Whilst I might seem to be watching CBeebies, breastfeeding or chopping cheese into cubes I am actually turning over sentences repeatedly until they...
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