How do you shake off the parenting blues? It is, apparently, Blue Monday today, which is one of those yawnsome made-up stories about it being the most depressing day of the year, due to a combination of factors involving January doing what it does best, everyone being predictably post-Christmas poor and the weather being, well,…
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Back to school: lessons I’ve learned from the first term of primary
Read moreAre you making the big and scary primary school application for your child this month? We’ve just gone back for the new term which means we are one whole term down into primary proper. It seems really odd to think that it was us last year, nervously pressing send while rocking back and forth, wailing about…
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Life lessons I’ve (accidentally) learned in 2016
Read moreIt’s fair to say 2016 has been the equivalent of the anguished face emoji about a million times over, for all the obvious and well-publicised reasons. It’s been a shocker, hasn’t it? When I had a look back at the posts I’ve written over the past 12 months, I realised that while I’ve spent a…
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Late to the (Christmas) party
Read moreAges and ages ago, far back in the swirly mists of time, I wrote a post called late to the party about the things everyone has loved for ages that I’d only just started to like. Now Christmas is a time of traditions and is made up of doing the same lovely things over and over every…
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How do I love tea? The joys of the morning routine
Read moreHow do I love tea? Let me count the ways… Puns aside, I really really love tea and it’s an integral part of my hectic morning routine. One of my enduring childhood memories is of my dad bringing my mum the morning gift of tea to wake her up. Every morning. What an absolute hero!
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Powerful women? We need to look to the future…
Read moreThe Radio 4 Women’s Hour Power list was published today to mark the 70th anniversary of the show. It’s a list of seven women who have had the greatest impact on our world over the past 70 years. Coming in at number one is Margaret Thatcher, presumably, hopefully, for the power of her impact, not the dreadful…
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How not to lose your child’s favourite toy, or the tale of Rainbow Dash and the Comedy of Errors
Read moreThey say those who don’t learn from their mistakes are doomed to repeat them and WE LOST ONE OF MY CHILDREN’S FAVOURITE TOYS. AGAIN. And I have no idea how it happened.
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