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Thursday, 1 January 2015

What makes a year? More than just the obvious...

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2014 was one of those years when everything comes together, "all ducks in a row" as a friend of mine says. We had two great holid...
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Thursday, 18 December 2014

Are girls and boys born, or made?

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Today we took Ana to her first ever cinema trip. While this is probably deserving of a post in itself, it's not actually what I want to...
Saturday, 29 November 2014

Smiling at parents

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On the street, I try to smile at other parents. At the woman who is pushing an extra large, heavy looking pram in the rain. Inside the pr...
Monday, 24 November 2014

Parenting by hugs

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Earlier today, Ana walked into the kitchen in floods of tears. "Sacha said we're not best friends any more!" "Sweethea...
Sunday, 16 November 2014

A night at the theatre

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Recently I wrote about my short play 'The Bargain' having won a competition run by the Touring Consortium Theatre Company. As a res...
Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Sundays, birthdays, days of our lives

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Our little man is two. It was a fun day, filled with lots of children, laughter, noise and an incredible amount of emotion. You try to...
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Thursday, 16 October 2014

Thursday's thrill

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Hot of the press, an exciting piece of news about my writing! Recently I have been involved with a new playwrights' group within the ...
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Tuesday, 30 September 2014

September is not autumn in this house

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The days of summer are over. Ana's room was very dark tonight, as we lay next to each other on her bed, both of us very silent. She w...
Monday, 29 September 2014

Book review : "The Continuum Concept - in Search of the Happiness Lost", by Jean Liedloff

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"For some two million years, despite being the same species of animal as ourselves, man was a success. He had evolved from apehood to ...
Monday, 22 September 2014

5 things to pack when going on a road trip with small children

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This weekend we went to Liverpool. Liverpool is not across the world, but if you are stuck on a motorway with two little people in the ba...
Thursday, 18 September 2014

Here, now

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I seem to have gone from the life of stay-at-home-mother, with not much more to challenge me than a few play dates and some stubborn housew...
Friday, 12 September 2014

Life writes stories

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I have neglected my blog, recently. Well, it's not even so much that I have neglected it. To say that would suggest that I have someh...
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Thursday, 7 August 2014

Studying with a young family

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Yesterday I met my new course leader. This autumn I will be starting a Masters degree in Creative Writing at the university in our town, ...
Wednesday, 30 July 2014

We love Bloglovin

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Book review, "The Girl with all the Gifts" by M. R. Carey (warning, contains some spoilers)

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Melanie is ten and she lives in a prison. Every day she has lessons with various teachers, Miss Justineau being her favourite. During the c...
Wednesday, 23 July 2014

A day out at Prinknash Abbey Bird & Deer Park

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So we decided to have another day out, on a Tuesday :-) Thanks to Wayne's flexible working hours, we are able to enjoy the summer wea...
Monday, 7 July 2014

07/07/2007 - memories of a very special day

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Today is our 7th wedding anniversary and I feel that a post about our wedding is in order. If for no other reason, then at least as an excu...
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Wednesday, 2 July 2014

'How to Stop Worrying and Start Living' by Dale Carnegie

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All my adult life I have been a worrier. I worried about things which I might have some control over, like how I would perform in exam...
Saturday, 21 June 2014

THE QUEST

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There are days when I feel an urgent need to write. I don’t feel that I can wait until the usual 9pm, when the children are asleep and eve...
Thursday, 12 June 2014

BACK TO BASICS

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Last Sunday, we went into nature. Not a park, not a tourist farm, not some domesticated meadow on the edge of town, but Proper Natur...
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Aleksandra Andrejevic-Bullock
A blog about the life of motherhood and writing, one moment at a time... Aleksandra Andrejevic-Bullock also writes short stories, theatre plays and poems, and her work has appeared in The Dawntreader, Literary Mama and The Brain,Child magazines and on the parenting website Scary Mommy. She lives in leafy Cheltenham (England) with her husband, two small children and a whole lot of books.
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