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		<title>Spring term</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the UK, the school / college term that runs from Christmas until Easter, is known as the Spring Term.  Puts a nice positive spin on the term that begins just after the middle of winter! Jonathan&#8217;s school term started on the 3rd of January, and after a week back he seemed to be getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More luck than skill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit, even if I say so myself, that I&#8217;m very pleased with Jessica&#8217;s updated fringe (above right).  It&#8217;s been driving me a little crazy for ages now but cutting it is such a performance that I&#8217;ve been putting it off for weeks.  I strongly debated trying to get her to a hairdresser&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firstsolo.net/index.php/2012/01/more-luck-than-skill/</link>
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		<title>Chocolate joy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it all went a little too quiet in the lounge where Jon and Jess were playing this morning, Daddy went in to check what absorbing game they were busy with.  It turned out that they had discovered a forgotten gift behind the tree: a bag of chocolate Christmas figures&#8230;  Mmmm. Witness the foil debris [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firstsolo.net/index.php/2011/12/chocolate-joy/</link>
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		<title>Christmas is coming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The run up to Christmas has felt fairly chaotic for the last month or two, although Jonathan&#8217;s first term of school finished a week ago, so we&#8217;ve enjoyed some time being free of that routine at least.  Finally I feel like I can relax a bit and let Christmas happen without any more interference from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firstsolo.net/index.php/2011/12/christmas-is-coming/</link>
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		<title>My little angels II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just eight months on, and we have another set of school photos, this time with Jonathan in Reception class.  For the record, I was far less impressed with this photographer than with the one who did Jon&#8217;s nursery portrait.  (The guy who took that photo made it look so easy, and I have twice as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firstsolo.net/index.php/2011/11/my-little-angels-ii/</link>
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		<title>Jessica is 18 months old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While I am forced more and more to put Jess in the rank of &#8220;toddler&#8221; lately, I do rather like to think of her as a baby still. This is aided by her lack of vocabulary and her petite stature (she only weighs a little more than 10kg) which generally has people thinking of her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firstsolo.net/index.php/2011/10/jessica-is-18-months-old/</link>
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		<title>Mostly walking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Jess took her first few little steps back in August, I&#8217;ve been poised to write this article; just waiting for the day to arrive when I could say conclusively that she&#8217;s a toddler. Jessica however, in fairly typical fashion, is refusing to be pigeon-holed on this one, and reserves the right to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firstsolo.net/index.php/2011/10/mostly-walking/</link>
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		<title>School beginnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So our glorious summer holiday is over, and with it our days of freedom from school timetables&#8230; It&#8217;s now two weeks since Jonathan started at school and although we&#8217;re still coming down slowly, the new term is well and truly under way. The biggest difference for Jonathan is not having any days off.  His nursery [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firstsolo.net/index.php/2011/09/school-beginnings/</link>
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		<title>Reflections of summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In many ways, the summer break we&#8217;ve had this year feels like the most complete holiday I&#8217;ve had in a long while.  To be sure, there were some little stresses at the start &#8212; like the too-short night spent in a hotel in Dubai, en route to South Africa, which involved minimal sleep all round [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firstsolo.net/index.php/2011/09/reflections-of-summer/</link>
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		<title>Jessica at 15 months</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 15 months, Jess has become such a fun little person.  She&#8217;s full of personality and willing to hold forth in baby-babble on virtually any topic.  Passionate and feisty too &#8211; she is a lass who knows her own mind and is not shy about sharing her opinion. (Early weather warnings indicate tantrums ahead!) We&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firstsolo.net/index.php/2011/07/jessica-at-15-months/</link>
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