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My daredevil son | Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush
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Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush. April 8, 2013. My older son, H (2, nearly 3, going on 37), is destined to be in the Health and Safety Executive when he’s older. I’d like to think he’d be a manager, but his proper niche would be one of the chaps who walk around with a clipboard pointing out a dodgy cable. I don’t think I’ve ever met a child who is more cautious or aware of things being ‘not quite right’. From → Uncategorized. What a lovely post – thank you very much! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Notify me ...
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Diplomatic Baggage Handling | Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush
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Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush. May 20, 2014. 8220;Can I check your bag? 8221; said the chap at security at Islamabad International Airport. 8220;Um, yes” I said, trying to work out quite what he might have seen in a bag containing nappies, wipes and Julia Donaldson’s seminal work “Monkey Puzzle*”. (This is J’s favourite who will present it to you, climb onto your knee and proceed to point at every blue butterfly in the book demanding “What is that? Should be banned under the Geneva Convention.*. We were...
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Things I Have Only Ever Seen On A Baggage Belt In Pakistan | Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush
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Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush. Things I Have Only Ever Seen On A Baggage Belt In Pakistan. May 22, 2014. The Pakistan International Airways baggage allowance is 40 kg, even in economy. It is generous to a fault, that fault being “What On Earth Are You Thinking? 1 Someone’s glasses case, complete with glasses sticking out of the top. They really deserved the ‘fragile’ sticker. 2 A crutch. Singular. 3 A box of Pampers, merrily tootling around by itself. From → Pakistan. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are...
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Cracking Party Invitation! | Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush
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Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush. May 27, 2014. I’ve been invited to a party! Tomorrow Jamat-ud-Dawa (the political wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba who are, according to Wikipedia, one of the largest and most active terrorist organisations in South Asia) are holding a Grand Rally in Islamabad to celebrate the day Pakistan tested nuclear weapons sixteen years ago in 1998. If that isn’t cause for a large cake and a bouncy castle I don’t know what is. Quick – get some balloons and a piñata! I fear I may be busy.
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From Pakistan to Northern Ireland (again) | Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush
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Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush. From Pakistan to Northern Ireland (again). June 3, 2014. And now for something completely different…. Occasionally I do a guest blog for a great website called Smitten By Britain, my specialist subject being Northern Ireland. Here’s the latest post. From → Uncategorized. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. News and V...
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Keep Off The Grass! | Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush
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Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush. Keep Off The Grass! May 29, 2014. H is coming to terms with death. I was prepared; so when, later, he said “I don’t want to have holes in my hands and feet when I die” there was a brief and satisfactory discussion about how Jesus has already suffered that for us. But it was clear that there were more questions coming. 8220;Did Jesus bounce into heaven? And then we got to the dinosaurs. Yes, the bird dinosaur is eviscerating the other dinosaur. See you in the morning! Obser...
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For The Love Of A Vacuum Cleaner | Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush
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Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush. For The Love Of A Vacuum Cleaner. August 7, 2014. This is not a sponsored post. I’m not getting any money or free hoover bags or anything for writing this. It’s just that it’s not often that you meet pure passion head on. And so, here are 5 Reasons To Love The Vac Centre, Stamford, Lincolnshire. 1 It’s a Dream Come True. I challenge you to go in and ask if they sell irons. Go on. Dare you…. 2 Is there anything he doesn’t know about vacuum cleaners? I don’t think so. Our yo...
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In-flight Tourettes | Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush
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Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush. September 5, 2014. 8220;Are we going to crash, Mummy? Is that why we have to wear a seatbelt? Is it because we’re going to crash? Do you think we’re going to crash? 8221; said H with glee as he buckled himself into his seat. After the ‘crash’ conversation he settled down for a little while until we started the approach to Heathrow. 8220;Look, there’s a fighter jet! 8221; he shouted, kneeling up at the window. I whipped round and fixed my husband with a glare. Just wonderin...
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The Wonders Of A Wife | Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush
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Carrot Crush in the Hindu Kush. The Wonders Of A Wife. January 24, 2014. I was lamenting the huge pile of documents we had which needed to be shredded. Unfortunately our shredder takes a single piece of paper at a time. The pile of paper was over a foot high. And that was that. A week or so later I spied a small brown structure in the garden. It was a chapati oven. K had made it from scratch out of the clay soil that we have around here. 1 Climbed a 15 foot tree to get the ripest oranges for the boys;.
