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July 19, 2015

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How to do a car boot sale like a boss

Over recent months I've been feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of 'stuff' we have accumulated.

So I have started making in-roads into decluttering the house.

The resulting piles of things to sell were threatening to take over our basement. And, to be honest, listing individual items on eBay, Gumtree and Facebook selling groups was taking too much time and bringing few rewards. So I decided to take the bull by the horns and brave a car boot sale.

The idea of setting the alarm for 5am on a Sunday morning was horrific. But, quite frankly, the idea of having piles of 'stuff' sitting downstairs any longer, was enough motivation to bypass my lie-in.

Here are my tips to do a car boot sale like a boss.

Tip one: Enlist some help.
My eldest, who is nine years old, was keen to spend a morning helping me sell our unwanted clutter. However, he did name a price - I was to buy him a McDonalds breakfast on the way! You can imagine how disappointed he was when we arrived at …

An afternoon at Dawlish Warren

Yesterday I had a couple of hours to kill at Dawlish Warren.

I had dropped 9 year old Elliot off at Junior Rangers, where he enjoyed an afternoon of pond dipping and learning about dragonflies and newts.

Dawlish Warren is a place of contrasts. Thanks to the Blue Flag beach and large number of holiday parks nearby, it is a proper touristy, kiss-me-quick sort of resort with amusements, fish and chips, ice-cream and buckets and spades. But the warren is also a national nature reserve and an area of international importance for wildlife, particularly wading birds, which over-winter on the 1.5 mile sandspit.

With Elliot enjoying the natural wonders of the Warren, it was up to me and 6 year old Bea to investigate the more touristy side.

We headed straight to the Funder Park, which we had spotted from the train. I had been a little concerned that this might be a bit pricey, given that the hook a duck at the entrance was £3 a go. However, the rides are all 1 token each and you can buy three …

Overcoming nursing aversion

Nursing is all about warmth, contentment, being at one with your child. And if you're into your second year of breastfeeding, you would imagine you would be well past any major problems. So I was shocked and horrified when my previously very easy breastfeeding journey suddenly became irritating and horrid.

Nursing aversion or breastfeeding agitation can range from a general unease or unhappiness about nursing through a skin-crawling feeling to a very extreme, almost overpowering, wish to get the nursling off you. It can strike anyone nursing an older child, and is particularly common if you are breastfeeding and pregnant or tandem feeding.

I was lucky enough to sail through pregnancy with my third with barely any aversion to nursing my second. However, once my youngest was born and my daughter increased her nursing with a vengeance to take advantage of the rich, creamy, new milk, I began to occasionally resent her constant demands - particularly when she was waking in the night mo…

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