This is a post from 7 years ago! But I thought I’d republish it, just in case I was ever thinking that the past was always sunny and serene. Different numbers these days. Boy One’s 20th looming, Boy Two filling the fridge with dozens of jelly shots (don’t ask) and Boy Three’s new school shoes […]
Hot air, cold air and cycling
Things I learned from a holiday in Turkey
This time last week I was preparing my expedition up laundry mountain after our holiday in Turkey. We had a fabulously lazy time at our all-inclusive resort near Side. Here’s what I learned: Towel art is imaginative This one is certainly an elephant… We were less certain of this one though. McDonald’s is an interesting […]
Things we learned from a brief trip to Aviemore
The weekend before last saw Boy Three and I off on a micro adventure and it was educational. Time is not a fixed thing. Once you start thinking about time as a linear, measurable thing, that’s when the trouble starts. You think it’s all neatly split up into seconds, days and minutes. Then, suddenly, you […]
Women’s football: balls to the sexists
A late submission to football chat… I first decided football wasn’t for me sometime in the late 1980s when, with a Dons-supporting boyfriend at Pittodre, the opposition substituted a black player. The racism shocked and sickened me. That these ordinary folk in the stand beside me had brought a banana with them to express their […]