Love your sleep? Like most parents of young kids, I’m a fan of sleep and would dearly love to get much more of it but if the general perception is correct teenagers love their sleep even more. It would be easy to assume they are just being lazy but I’ve recently read an interesting report […]
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A Week In Tweets
Slummy Single Mummy is running her ‘A Week In Tweets’ meme again. You can read all about it by clicking on the badge but basically you need a tweet for each day to sum up what you did. They don’t have to be tweets you actually sent. You can just write a 140 character summary […]
What is marriage all about?
Recently, lots of important and influential people have been trying to define what a marriage is. What does it mean to be married? Why do we want to do it? Why is it important? Many people feel it’s about love, most people consider it to be a long term commitment, plenty prioritise faithfulness and monogamy, a few […]
A Week in Tweets
This is a great new idea for a meme from Slummy Single Mummy. You can read all about it by clicking on the badge but essentially we’re going to attempt to summarise our week in seven tweets. They can be tweets you actually sent or just a 140 character summary that you write in retrospect. […]
I am not competitive, no really…
You may know that as well as Yellow Days I’ve also got a little blog called Political Mummy which I’m essentially using to keep all my ranty political posts together. I don’t spend much time on it especially since going back to work. I’m seeing it more as a project to the future. But then […]
Work Experience or Slavery?
One of the hot debates of the week has been the government’s planned introduction of compulsory, unpaid work experience for job seekers. Is this a genuine attempt to help people find work or are the big companies involved just taking advantage of the free labour? I have to say I’m sceptical about the system although I […]