From the moment we’re born we start to develop our fine and gross motor skills to help us carry out perfectly normal movements, like lifting our heads, sitting up, and holding things. The skills continue to develop as we age until we eventually take them for granted, as we don’t even realise we’re using them. […]
Thoughts on the end of home learning (fingers crossed)
Back to school – real, actual, muddy knees, bell going school – next week. I have never been keener for a Monday morning scurry. And neither has Boy Three. At first it was interesting to peep into the classroom through the Zoom window and my theoretical admiration for teachers now has more evidence than any […]
What am I going to write about?
Well, write something. Go on. You’ve got nothing else to do. A soundtrack of puppy snores and rain. But there’s a problem. The ideas have fled with the sunshine. Where there used to be jostling dozens muttering at me, there is bleached rock and silence. Maybe a cup of tea would help… Or an actual […]
Positive thoughts for days that were dark
Two things this week it wasn’t too hard to say goodbye to – Trump’s presidency and Blue (or Black) Monday, the most miserable day of the year. So it’s cheerio to blue, black and orange and hello to better things… or at least different ones. It’s odd how affected I feel by today’s Biden inauguration. A […]
