Author: Skills Repeat

  • Start of a New Term: At Home

    Despite being lockdown, the half-term week has run through our fingers like water. We do feel the absence of family and friends a lot, but we have made our own fun and it’s great to see the two of them so close to each other and playing together except for when they give each other…

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  • Technology Break

    I don’t know about you but my children usually love TV. I mean, the TV is more than just set programmes list but has all sorts of digital options including watching YouTube arts and crafts videos. Usually, on a slow day at home, I struggle to switch it off, it’s there regardless of what the…

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  • Energised by the Little Things

    Children have an innate curiousity and an interest in things we take for granted. As lockdown is starting to trap us in the four walls of our local area, it took a short walk to our local park to realise that sometimes we limit and confine ourselves. With children, everything is a new experience no…

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  • Letting Go

    As many parents know, regardless of how old your children get, you are subject to sleepless nights and having to get on with it the next day. I found that when I was off of work, I would dwell on it and remember how tired I was but going to work meant that I would…

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  • Being in the moment

    It’s been a while since I wrote my last blog post. I’m very thankful so many of you have kept reading it whilst I have been away being in the moment. I’m naturally a busy-minded person having multiple search tabs in my brain and enjoying being able to move from one topic to the next-…

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  • Truly Enjoying Your Work

    How do you know that you truly enjoy your work? Wake up well in the morning Although it is hard, you relish the challenge You come home tired but … Truly Enjoying Your Work

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  • External Validation

    Living in Tier 3 is interesting. You can go out and about, but you can’t visit each other in homes. Making friends becomes very challenging at the loss to your support network. As a mother, I am aware of how often I call my mum, my friends who have more experience to ask advice on…

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  • Fish Fingers and Waffles

    ‘Would you like fish fingers and waffles for your tea?’ said a loud voice behind me. It was a well meaning voice, a woman walking back from her place of work asking someone she shares her home with. It made me smile because at the moment, I am on a career break, which means I…

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  • Loop the Loop

    It’s been a while since I’ve posted and that is because we are enjoying our outdoors time again after the two week isolation. It’s been great just to get in the fresh air, cycle up a hill (Phew!) and then whizz down again just like freedom. It’s almost the feeling of starting something new and…

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  • Finally Released

    As you may already know, we have spent some time isolating as someone in my daughter’s bubble has unfortunately contracted Covid19. We had brilliant support from school and home-schooling went really well, we had more than enough to keep her busy. Both of my girls were home with me as my eldest is not old…

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