Monthly Archives: January 2016

Room – Film Review

Spend your whole life, cocooned within a single room.  Never go out, never experience the outside world.  Sit all day in front of the TV.  Sounds like heaven for most emo teenagers. That’s the spin, but that’s not exactly how … Continue reading →

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Toddler Mother Blues

We’re all aware of the term ‘baby blues’ but in her third parenting feature, Sarah Wheatley considers  what happens when this becomes the ‘one-and-a-half-year-old-mother blues’.

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Elspeth Hart and the School for Show-Offs

Ten year old Elspeth Hart is the clever, funny, resourceful heroine of Sarah Forbes’ two (so far) humorous novels for children aged about 6-10 years – Elspeth Hart and the School for Show-Offs and Elspeth Hart and the Perilous Voyage.

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Hogmanay Editorial

In this season of goodwill, and as 2015 becomes 2016, I’d like to take the opportunity to send best wishes to everyone involved in Lothian Life. Thank you all – readers and contributors alike – for all your interest and … Continue reading →

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