I don’t know about anybody else but time seems to be going at least three times slower than usual now we don’t have anywhere to go or anywhere we need to be! Last week was just more of the same for us – a bit of school work, a lot of Lego and plenty of time outside in the garden, although the weather wasn’t quite as kind to us last week.
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Morning all! So how was week 1 for you? After I wrote just a week ago that we had come up with a vague timetable for our days it became clear after one day that it wasn’t really going to work for us!
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I don’t really know what to write this week. Like the rest of the country we are at the start of a very different time in all our lives. So far the boys have taken all the news and school closure in their stride but as we all try to find our new normal I think there will be lots of emotional times to come.
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I haven’t really mentioned it before but since last summer I have been suffering from hair loss. I’m now recovering so I thought it was time I shared what happened with you all. My hair loss was caused by something called telogen effluvium which I will explain below.
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Well it’s been a funny old week hasn’t it? There’s so much uncertainty about corona virus at the moment. We’re trying to keep things as normal as possible for the boys but also trying to prepare them a little bit for what might be coming if schools do close.
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The world’s oldest living person is 117 year old Kane Tanaka from Japan. She’s still a few years off the record for the world’s oldest person though, which is held by French woman Jeanne Calment who died in 1997 at the age of 122! However, these people are definitely the exception with average life expectancy in the UK currently 80.96 years old. But is there anything we can do to live longer? Is it possible to beat the ageing process?
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**This is a collaborative post
Spring is in the air after a long and gloomy winter, and that tends to get people in the mood to start cleaning, organising, and even redecorating different rooms in their house.
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The Art of the Brick is an exhibition of Lego sculptures made by American artist Nathan Sawaya. Like lots of children, Toby and Gabe love Lego and our house is full of it. So, when I heard about The Art of the Brick I thought it might be something fun for us to go and see.
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I have been blogging here at Toby Goes Bananas for six and a half years now (and I had a different blog for about four years before that). So although I don’t claim to be an expert I’ve been around for a while! If you are just starting out with a blog then it can be a bit daunting so I thought I’d share my top 5 blogging essentials for getting started.
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This last week has been all about World Book Day for Toby and Gabe. As well as dressing up for school on Thursday they also had a book swap at school. In the afternoon parents and carers were invited to go in to ‘share a story’ so I went in with my mum to read with the boys.
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