I’m all for freedom of choice, dancing to your own rhythm and individuality. However, I wonder if we now have so many options that we are too busy making our minds up to actually live our lives. Let me explain. Here we are on holiday with a small suitcase of clothes apiece, just a few well-chosen […]
The tyranny of hand-me-downs
Look at that. Every day that is one of the first things I see. It makes my lovely and spacious bedroom like a rubbish dump only less smelly (unless the Panther has had an eventful encounter with a lamb bhuna recently). Those bags contain clothes suitable for boy children aged from one to three. Most of […]
Let’s get off the crap-go-round
The school bring-and-buy sale was one of the casualties of last year’s heavy snow. Its disappearance was mourned by the kids for a minute or two before they went off sledging and celebrated by me and probably all the other parents. I thought it had gone away. I relaxed and started to believe it wasn’t […]