It was a sunny day towards the end of the last century. I was leaving my job – again – to go off and mess about on boats. (I did this several times until motherhood put a stop to it.) My colleagues at the newspaper I’d been working at had clubbed together to get me […]
Who teaches children to put carrot in their spag bol?
Strawberries – Scottish, tasty and healthy. We do, is the short answer. Boy One, who has just started S2, came home on Friday with a plastic tub of, what he called, spaghetti bolognaise.He made it in HFT – that’s new-speak for home economics, stands for health and food technology. One of his favourite subjects.A useful […]
Buying children’s shoes – a special kind of misery.
Neverseconds blogger Martha should lead the way at school
You’d have to have been living under a rock with no wifi to have missed this week’s story about Martha Payne. Nine-year-old Martha from Lochgilphead Primary started a blog called Neverseconds a couple of months ago that records what she had for lunch at school. Quickly it caught on, the prison-style tray-plates made the school […]