Birthday Dude. Ten years ago this week I was getting to know my extraordinarily beautiful second son, Boy Two.Even though I knew I shouldn’t, I sat up through the night, held my warm bundle and watched foxes scurry through the bushes by the hospital car park.He fitted the name we had finally agreed on. As […]
Silent Sunday
Crazy golf: a good wander round a large room spoilt?
Things I learned from Boy One’s birthday celebration Different approaches can have the same result. Boy One and his friends I and R – along with Boy Two on a best behavior promise – headed to X-Scape’s Paradise Island Adventure Golf for some birthday fun. My view that adventure golf is an oxymoron did not […]
Grammar, birthday blues and gang behaviour
Things I’ve learned from my children today Pic: It’s for you If one child is having fun winding me up, others will join him. Boy Three has already learned that joining in with his brothers’ high jinks is more fun than, for example, sitting nicely and eating supper. What I can’t find the answer to […]