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The quickest homemade gift....

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It's almost the end of term and boy, are we all feeling it?! What with that, the heat and the humongous thunderstorm over the weekend, this household is on a bit of a go-slow today. And, of course, that means my best laid plans for teacher's gifts has slightly gone out of the window....well, almost... I did manage to get the pre-school teachers theirs from from the whole class. No mean feat to attempt to get 45 fingerprints on a mug!! I managed 32 & am pretty pleased with that.  Not the best photos but they are truly lovely in real life! You'll have to trust me on that.  Many thanks to Rosie at Crockadoodledo for turning these around so quickly.  And later, I'm going to string a necklace for my elder daughter's teacher using buttons and beads given by all her classmates. Hmmm, maybe I haven't done so badly after all.... Some of their other classes are finishing too for the summer & I wanted to give a little trea

Run for your life!

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Running....hmmm, that really belongs to my life before children. To be honest, even then it was fairly short lived (keep reading for more on that)....And yet, as is my wont every June, I don my trusty Nike trainers and go for a run. Not just any old run, you'll understand, this is my once a year participation in the Race for Life. It's a 5km run for women organised by Cancer Research UK and there are around 200 of them up and down the country every weekend in the summer months. (In case you haven't heard of it, or would like to know more, just click here . ) I ran my first Race for Life in 2007 in memory of my friend Lyn. She lost her battle with cancer almost exactly a year earlier. I wore a red shirt (her favourite colour) and tried to remember the fun we used to have together as I ran with 5000 other women, each with their own stories.  I was cheered on by my mum and then 1year old daughter, Charlotte. Fast forward to the following year and I ran with 3 wo