Other things I’ve learned today. An election is exciting for journalists. The Panther of News had a spring in his step this morning when he headed off to work. He’ll doubtless be facing the usual pictures of polling stations in remote pubs, with sheep, the great and the good voting and the ‘hilarious’ lengths folk […]
A month for springing forward… no?
Things I’ve learned during April The train makes for a very smooth transition for the big Boys from their dad’s. I’ve written before about the trials of transitionitis at Readyforten. So when the ash clouds stranded the Boys at Euro Disney, poor lambs, and they had to come back by train I thought I was […]
Cheap things to help you survive the first years
Five go to Northumbria (via Cumbria)
Things I learned from our Easter holidays Posh folk use Jo Malone candles instead of Febreze. In the wonderful Alnwick Castle you can tell the calibre of its inhabitants by the scented candles dotted around. Jo Malone no less – at £38 a pop -in the state rooms where tourists wander. Perhaps not so fragrant, […]
This week the only blackberry I found was in Ribena
Things I’ve learned from being in a communications drought. This week my mobile died – well actually the sim card did. You could call it the post Death of BlackBerry era. So I’ve been in a total phone free zone since Sunday. It’s been an interesting week and it’s only Wednesday. I learned that being […]