Photographer Zena Holloway 

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WHERE ARE ALL THE COOL BOYS CLOTHES HIDDING??

Having a boy makes shopping a tat bit boring when the high street offer, is limited.

As much as I love Baby Gap, Mini Rodini,  Ej Sikke Lej, ZaraKids and all those cool trendy things for an adult that comes in mini size – I love.

Have you seen the baby vans and converse? 

I don’t dislike the traditional British boys clothes but they don’t rock my boat. I mean the clothes that you can buy in John Lewis, Mamas & Papas and all those other shop you found on the high street. Primark is a busy shop and dead friendly to our money- and we all know why, therefore a no in my opinion.

A big no to all those expensive label clothes. Seriously? Label clothes for a child? Are there any children who don’t get dirty during a day? Baby clothes, for some reason tends to spend more time “spinning around” in the washing machine rather then being worn.

I am fed up with baby blue, teddy bear, stripy clothes but most of all those stereotypical colours of what a boy should wear.

H&M is a winner- the clothes have more imagination and the price is family friendly. When it comes to children wear I am a firm believer in quality and therefore willing to pay more. I see children and adult wearing shoes that has been made so cheaply that the rubber underneath is sloping either to the right or left side. That slop normally comes with decades. With the time being- not all of us have the money…  

BUT,

As a parent, you can’t do cut out when its about your children having the right objects to grown without problem in the future. 100 % Organic cotton clothes, 100 % organic food, shoes that are made to a high standard, from quality materials. Unfortunately some shops offers bad quality products, but its us, its our fault for them being alive. If less and suddenly more people were aware of the crap quality maybe then those shop would vanish from the surface and more quality products would be on the shelves for a more reasonable price.

Crouch End- buggy paradise and baby land. We are ‘lucky’; we got some dissent children shops offering quality. I seriously think we missing one shop Lindex.

They are wallet friendly, cool & hip and the quality is rock on. They got online shopping, and I promise you will not be disappointed. 

Long live a long time ago

I miss STKLM

With a bit of magic, i got new swedish music on my ipod, its angels words straight in to my ear. Swedish music. Hope you fall in love with this song as much as I have.

Sju sorger

Länge leve längesen
som jag minns det var det lätt
även när jag trillade omkull
Länge leve du min vän
du som alltid följt mig hem
nykter eller alldeles för full
Snön är vit som den var förr
när vi bodde dörr i dörr
Men det va så längesen
ja det va säkert längre än
Sju sorger och åtta bedrövelser sen
Så längesen, så längesen
Du kommer nog aldrig mer vara min vän
Det va för längesen sen, så längesen
Så längesen
leve sommaren
den som kom och gick igen
snabbare än någonsin förut
Vi fick inte åka någonstans
inte ens till Köpenhamn
grät och grät tills tårarna va slut
Står och låtsas inte se
att du står precis bredvid
Kände dig för längesen
ja det va säkert längre än
Sju sorger och åtta bedrövelser sen
Så längesen, så längesen
Du kommer nog aldrig mer vara min vän
Det va för längesen sen, så längesen
Så längesen
Länge leve längesen
som jag minns det var det lätt
även när jag trillade omkull
Länge leve du min vän
du som alltid följt mig hem
nykter eller alldeles för full
Ååh, åtta bedrövelser sen
Så längesen, så längesen
Du kommer nog aldrig mer vara min vän
Det va för längesen sen, så längesen
Så längesen

Seven sorrows

Long live a long time ago,
As I remember, it was easy
Even when I fell over
Long live you, my friend
You, who always walked me home
Sober or just too drunk
The snow is white as it was before
When we used to live next door to one another
But it was so long ago
Yeah, it was surely longer than
Seven sorrows and eight afflictions ago
So long ago, so long ago
You will probably never be my friend anymore
It was too long ago, so long ago
So long ago
Long live the summer
That came and went again
Faster than ever before
We didn't go anywhere
No even to Copenhagen
We cried and cried until there were no more tears
Standing and pretending not to see
That you're standing just next to me
I've known you for a long time
Yeah, it was surely longer than
Seven sorrows and eight afflictions ago
So long ago, so long ago
You will probably never be my friend anymore
It was too long ago, so long ago
So long ago
Long live long ago
As I remember, it was easy
Even when I fell over
Long live you, my friend
You, who always walked me home
Sober or just too drunk
Ooh, eight afflictions ago
So long ago, so long ago
You will probably never be my friend anymore
It was so long ago, so long ago
So long ago

Special alert! Special alert! Crouch End No:3

 

 

I LOVE THIS LIBRARY. It’s heaven packed with intelligent atmosphere where you can dig in anyone else’s story and put you and your mind away. The library’s seem to have that effect on me, dive away from my myself into someone else, these days children books, children advice books, get in to shape books and the DVD are just my taste, WORLD WIDE CINEMA. I have enjoyed both my 2 films I have rented so far.

Loves me, Loves me not. Don’t let the title or the first 30 min fool you. I wont say anything, as it is a quality film. 

I also barrowed Fahrenheit 241 Ray Bradbury. I was forced to read the book for English lessons back home in Sweden in high school. I am so forever grateful that my teacher Mr Goran Dahl introduced me to it. The book is amazing and I hope someone will be making a remake of it really soon.

The library is also heaven for children. With times being the way they are, I bet many of us with child/children do not always have the financial on top. I don’t, and it has gotten to my moods and me. But this library is a very helpful medication and meditation.

The children section is brilliant! There is a play area, where you also can sit and read books with lovy. And if you are anything like me, hopeless romantic. Then I just have to let you know they have Anne of Green Gables DVD. The romantic love story by the Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, should be knowable to everyone. When I watched it, I felt like I was 16 again and how angry I got with Anne for not seeing that Gilbert was the one.

Go and dive in the books. Is the best cheap massage for you and your mind, so peaceful.

What will the outcome be???

 

Being terrorised with thoughts, my brain will just not put it to the side. I think both my brain and soul are fed up. Most of all I am irritated with myself for not putting my foot down and stomp on the problem till it screamed for help and gasped for air. You might be picturing me hurting someone to death but in my head I WAS STOMPING LIKE A CHILD IN PUDDLE.

 

In my family life, I seem to be smacked to often with the fact that Hubby and I come from 2 different cultures. Thankfully he aint bad with understanding and does take in that were I come from we might do things a bit differently and NOT “Stone age British” or “modern British” way”. And you know what, there are more then these two I just mentioned. You got the; Scottish way, The north way, Geordie way, Capital complex way, Wales way, Chav way, Midwife way and the list goes on.

Personal opinion, I think a lot of people do not understand the impact of psychology is to a human and individual behaviour. 

Lets explain.

1.

You without looking managed to turn on freakingly hot water instead of cold and got burned.  What will the outcome be? To always look before. You got burned- hurt.

2.

A parent is telling the child not to hit the baby sister while you are hitting that child yourself.

What would the outcome be? Will this child stop hitting the baby sister?  No he/she will not.

3.

If a adult person were forced to adapt to the fact that the dad is no longer in the picture while growing up, go through childhood with no dad, puberty with no dad, and turning in to an adult with no dad. What would the outcome be?

This is a bit deeper but the main point is that, that person would not want that for his/her own children.

4.

If someone is non-stop telling you what should be done and you are not on bored with the saying, but its being feed to you repeatedly and irritating you and this person refuse to understand that you do not agree.

What factor/factors causes this type of outcome in this person behaviour?

Hope your brain is getting hot. 

My solution is based on that the person while growing up has never been told off when doing something that is wrong to others. This person has managed to pass through years without any consideration to other people might be just as right as him/her. 

That person picks the habit up from situation like this.

Ex. Two children are playing, the bigger one wants to have all the toys to him/her self. 

Ex. One person in the classroom just shuts out the answer while the others puts hand up and waits for the signal to speak up.

Ex. The oldest one gets to do the most important jobs while younger brother/sisters just sit and watch.

As you probably understand I am up against person describe in 4. The one that just cant admit being wrong and don’t take any consideration towards my act. I can tell off some and some I can’t. But the problem is regarding my little one and his way of being brought up. Why on earth would I use typical “Britt-ness” when I wasn’t brought up here .I strongly believe that I use common sense with hint of "swedishness"

If YOU CAN ARGUE that Britt-ness is better, I am up for a debate. Please prove me wrong?!! 

You see, I am the parent that is home with the little one, while hubby is working. Very sad!

Sad that my little one, hardly (these days) gets to see and spend time with his dad. Sad that hubby misses out on a lot of things.

But according to this person it’s a good thing to put the little one down early as 7 o’clock. My little one, who loves his dad, saw him for 20 minutes today.

That is NOT  what I signed up for when starting a family. To bring a bit Freud into this, the outcome of my irritation will be to tell this person off, ones and for all – YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT’S BEST FOR MY CHILD. 

Mr Freud I wish I met you...