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Scéalta – The Early Childhood Ireland Blog
ALL POSTS BY EVELYN EGAN RAINY
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Feel the Love
By
Evelyn Egan Rainy
Tuesday 06 February 2018
As we emerge from the dark dreary days of January, Valentine’s Day heralds the coming of Spring and love is definitely in the air. No sooner did we ‘ring out the old, ring in the new’, than shop windows were adorned with red and pink love hearts, helium balloons, imitation roses, designer chocolates and Hallmark […]
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Making Scents of Christmas
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Evelyn Egan Rainy
Wednesday 06 December 2017
The Christmas Season is upon us, as evidenced by shopping centre aisles filled to capacity with tons of cheap, commercialized, plastic toys. For months now, great trucks thundered up and down the country delivering their cargo of ‘must have’ Paw-Patrol, Nerf guns and Lovabella dolls, stacks of colouring books and arts and crafts paraphernalia. Similarly, […]
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