Category Archives: Family

Accidental

By Naomi | Published: 06/05/2011
I took my girls to a friend’s birthday party recently. The friend was a fairly new one from school so it was the first time we had been to her house. What struck me on walking through the front door was the complete and utter lack of stuff. Apart from the party bunting and carefully [...]
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Complicated

By Naomi | Published: 07/01/2011
While we’re striving for a simpler life, life itself keeps on getting all complicated. I guess if life is just you and your backpack on the road then it could be simple, sometimes, maybe. But it’s not. It’s me, and Simon, and two girls, and all our family, and our friends, and our work, and [...]
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Presents

By Naomi | Published: 16/11/2010
This time of year always makes me glad that about 20 years ago I arrived home from Christmas shopping and talked to my family about my new found feelings on present giving. Admittedly back then I was a bit of a mini-revolutionary. I was a vegetarian campaigner who marched for my cause and didn’t buy [...]
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Choice

By Naomi | Published: 26/09/2010
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything on The Minimal List. No particular reason other than life has just taken over a little recently. I mean real life, you know, the important one you actually take part in. We’ve been having family time, surely the most important time of all. At the start of [...]
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Contact

By Naomi | Published: 03/08/2010
We’ve just returned from a week away with my extended family (me, Simon and the girls, my parents, my sister, her husband and their two children). There were things about the trip that I was looking forward to – seeing my family of course, catching up with their lives. When we lived in London I [...]
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