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After reading an article in today’s paper about individual daily use of water I am interested in what people are really using.  Not the average numbers on the water bill but of real individual’s family’s or household’s level of water use.
We are a family of 4, with two adults, a five year old and a […]

I feel completely paralysed when I think about choosing the primary school that my family will attend 5 days a week, 40 weeks a year for the next 9 years.  I have lists of questions and suggestions, comments from mums coming out my ears and professional, expert opinion in all manner of leaflets, talks and […]

What do you give your mum to reward constant service, late night dinners, emergency courier and transport work and regular and last minute baby-sitting?  What to give the mums that are also now doing duty as grandmas and nanas.
 And, on the side, as a mum of two small kids, what to expect?!?

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