Seeing advice from the Department of Slackery and General Half Heartedness In the hurly-burly of everyday life, it seems to have become increasingly difficult to find time. It’s odd, really – there are still 86,400 seconds in a day, but lately they are as hard to catch hold of as children at bedtime. Maybe it’s […]
Pain shared, a little dirt and a boy on a mission
Things I’ve learned from my children today. Being unable to help is horrible. Boy One shut his finger in the car door and it hurt. This, for him, is quite unusual. Something in the volume control of his senses is a bit awry and, normally, he doesn’t feel everyday discomfort. He often can’t account for […]
Relative age, telly pioneer and a bad smell
Other things I’ve learned. Lionel Jeffries was six years younger than Dick Van Dyke who played son Caractacus Potts to his Grandpa Potts. Lionel died this week. John Logie Baird made the first long-distance television broadcast in 1927 from the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow. The floors of the hotel are, apparently, still marked by […]
Washing, travelling and bedtime hassles
Things I’ve learned from my children today.Hygiene is relative. Boy Two seemed to go suddenly from a moderatly tidy child who didn’t really like feeling sticky or grubby into Stig of the Dump. After school, his hands, face and neck were grimy and smeared. “Wash your hands and face – they’re horrible.”“But, mum I did […]