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		<title>Rosey posey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life isn’t perfect; it simply cannot be. And anyone who tells you otherwise may be living with little green men, or peeking out from under a toadstool with little winged people surrounding her. Some people are born with remarkably rose-tinted retinas. Others don rose-tinted glasses on an as-needs basis, kind of aware of what they’re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pennidrysdale.com/2011/09/rosey-posey/</link>
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		<title>Hands off!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often that I will become anything close to animated after 8:30pm, but a certain Can of Worms did the job last week. Is it okay to smack your children? We were smacked by our father and whether it is because of this or just plain common sense and morality stepping in, I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pennidrysdale.com/2011/09/hands-off/</link>
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		<title>Social hack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suck at being sociable. It&#8217;s a wonder I still have contacts outside of my humble abode. I&#8217;m not readily available, I&#8217;m chronically fatigued and unable to construct a coherent thought in less than an hour. And that&#8217;s when the kids are not in tow. Clipped sentences and insincere conversational fillers are not uncommon, which sits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pennidrysdale.com/2011/08/social-hack/</link>
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		<title>Justifications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We make decisions and then dig around for justifications to support them. To prove to others that we have chosen well? Perhaps. To cover ourselves in the case of a potentially dodgy decision? That&#8217;s more like it. We can justify any decision, no matter how ludicrous the justification, and go about our day feeling lighter, less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pennidrysdale.com/2011/08/justifications/</link>
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		<title>Pause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a been a while between drinks here at P Plate Parenting. I could name a number of excuses or reasons (the usual stuff, like life&#8217;s just too damned busy to justify sitting at a laptop and indulging myself in self expression, I&#8217;ve been working more&#8230;paid work, that is etc etc). Or I could try to explain&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pennidrysdale.com/2011/07/pause/</link>
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		<title>Liar, liar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times that I have to remind myself (and my husband) that our kids have not been put here for our entertainment. And that it is our job to lie sometimes. You have probably gathered that our parenting style is not of the gently, gently, cotton wool type approach. There is little sheltering from truths, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pennidrysdale.com/2011/06/liar-liar/</link>
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		<title>Return to sender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, let&#8217;s not pretend that we have never thought it, even if only fleetingly. If you try to tell me that it&#8217;s never crossed your mind, I simply won&#8217;t believe you. The thing is, the Post Office won&#8217;t accept a live package, and the practicalities of returning your baby from whence it came&#8230;well&#8230;hmm. I&#8217;ll leave that thought with you. But what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pennidrysdale.com/2011/05/return-to-sender/</link>
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		<title>Reality bites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was no soft, warm glow. No white linen clothing. No airbrushed looks or &#8216;I&#8217;ve just stepped out of a salon&#8217; hair. There was no dreamy sleep-in followed by breakfast in bed. There was a 6:20 thump and bump, a blinding bedroom light switched on followed by a School Boy howl. There was a Baby [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pennidrysdale.com/2011/05/reality-bites/</link>
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		<title>Point break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been inching closer. Small but definite steps as though being pulled by a magnetic force, powerless to resist. Sickeningly aware of where I&#8217;m headed. My body weakens, my mind resembles an icecream, clumsily dropped on the pavement, succumbing to the warmth of the sun &#8211; my capacity to make decisions, to plan, melts away. The pendulum of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pennidrysdale.com/2011/05/point-break/</link>
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		<title>Liquid Gold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To whom it may concern, I have recently finished using your product &#8216;Liquid Gold&#8217; (scientifically known as &#8216;breastmilk&#8217;), and so am writing to provide some feedback. What I love about Liquid Gold is its portability. In my experience it has been readily on tap &#8211; at the right temperature and in the right amount. Both its incredible cost effectiveness and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pennidrysdale.com/2011/05/liquid-gold/</link>
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