Oh the irony. Soliliquizing is the word Boy One is having the most difficulty with. I don’t suppose most 11 year olds use soliliquizing in the course of their daily conversation. “I was just soliliquizing on the plot of last week’s Doctor Who episode” or “Stop soliliquizing on I’ve got the message”. But, I’ve had […]
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 […]
Is it time to send children out for a walk on the wild side?
How much freedom did you have as kids? I remember running about fields, climbing about rocks and fallen trees in steep glens, guddling in burns and hiding in woods. Only I’d kind of disregarded it as a foreign land or a distortion of my wishful imagination. Then, this week, Supersister and I took our Walking […]
August – blimey no wonder it felt busy
New alias and a school-based panic
I’ve persuaded the lovely folk at stv.tv to clear a corner for me to blog about family matters, the telly and probably some other stuff. To kick things off, I’ve talked about the almightly flap I got in the day before the term started. I’m also looking for suggestions for things that might help. Click […]