This year I’m actually fairly jolly. Ho ho ho and all that, but some things are baffling me: Who said we have to get all our shopping done by the first weekend in December? Why is a dressing gown and a tea towel the accepted costume for nativity plays? When are all these parties we […]
Christmas: How to cope when it isn’t your turn to have the kids
Things you don’t need for a happy Christmas
Undeniably, inexorably Christmas is coming. I can almost smell the turkey and mince pies. Jingle jingle. This year I have decided I’m going to be jolly from the outset. I’ll be so flipping festive you’ll couldn’t pick me out of a lineup of Santa’s elves. But first I’ve got to get one or two tiny, […]
How Santa is destroying Christmas for our kids…
I dithered about allowing Boy Three to go to his after school club’s Christmas Party – and here’s why… Claus for concern pic: Kevin Dooley via Flickr It’s supposed to be magical. Children waiting for the kindly, bearded chap to deliver their heart’s desire into an old sock on Christmas Eve. Then they ooh and […]
Down with tinsel
… At least for another month. I arrived in Aviemore on Friday night. For a yoga weekend, if you care. And the bright moonlight bounced off the orange and yellows in the trees. Sometimes the mild gusts caught another handful of crinkly leaves and flung them down the Main Street. Autumn colours suitably pumpkiny for […]