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Mum, drop everything and Go Dancing!
Feb 18 2023- Madeleine
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité. I don’t know any place where you really do find ALL these ideals other than the dance floor. You are free to express yourself, all revellers are equal and you’re best mates with everyone for the evening.
Mums in a Pickle: The Sandwich Generation
Feb 13 2023- Madeleine
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Caring for young children and elderly parents all at the same time. This is what I would define the Sandwich Generation. It feels mad what I have put myself and my family through….Two and a half years living with Alzheimer’s. When I say living with, I mean, as primary carer and care manager for my demented mum. In her own home. Till the end.
Mums and sleep deprivation
Feb 03 2023- Madeleine
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Mums and sleep deprivation … we can all relate. I see Meta has employed a paediatric sleep deprivation therapist, suggesting it thinks its parenting-employees need lessons in getting their kids to sleep, too much indulging going on, too much lost sleep, impacting negatively on their Precious Productivity. Oh dear…
Companies want it all. And we want it all, don’t we. The Career. The Marriage. The Kids.
REVIEW: ROYAL BALLET’s Like Water for Chocolate
Feb 02 2023- Madeleine
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ROYAL BALLET’s Like Water for Chocolate – streamed into a cinema near you.
This is a totally new production, all devised from scratch, the choreography, music, set and costumes, based on the novel by Laura Esquivel. The ballet moves are a fusion of classical rigour and exciting modern expression.
Mums and Tats: from ick to maybe
Jan 31 2023- Madeleine
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Generally I find tats a turnoff. They just look threatening or like a mould-fest. And why do it? All the pain, and weeks of wrapping yourself in clingfilm to prevent infection, only to regret the whole thing in later years.
During lockdown however, I read a novel called The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng which inspired me to think otherwise. The lovers are bound by an agreement that the artist would tattoo his ultimate work of art on her back. I loved it, that she became his living breathing sculpture, just for them, to be taken to the grave.
