SUITSUIT 20″ Wheel Aboard Trolley Case Boys One and Two are seasoned travellers, regularly flying on their own from here to Wales to see their dad. This is a very grown up thing to do and I think (although they don’t always agree) that packing and looking after their own stuff is all part of the big […]
The tyranny of hand-me-downs
Look at that. Every day that is one of the first things I see. It makes my lovely and spacious bedroom like a rubbish dump only less smelly (unless the Panther has had an eventful encounter with a lamb bhuna recently). Those bags contain clothes suitable for boy children aged from one to three. Most of […]
My problem with the BiB awards…
On reflection …is how to decide who to vote for. Honest, I look at the categories and so many of them have some of my very favourite bloggers up against each other. And then, never being one for snap decisions (except unwise ones) I click off the page. For example in the New Voices! section, would I […]
You know you live with a toddler when…
For two mornings in a run, you wake up with “There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden, and his name is Wiggly Woo.” going through your head.You find yourself sitting cross-legged on the floor in the Glasgow Science Centre singing Old Macdonald and you don’t fear arrest. It’s not uncommon to prepare a breakfast […]
Silent Sunday
Potty training for reluctant parents… please
If you have the entirely understandable attitude of not giving a flying fig about the continence or otherwise of my children, look away now. But it has come to this. Boy Three is two and three quarters. He’s a big lad, he communicates well (and frequently) (and forcefully) and as far as I can see […]
Review: Bombata 10” micro iPad briefcase – grown-up but not stuffy
Newspapers: what are you seen to read and does it matter?
I’m writing this fast to get it done before the Panther of News gets home from the Coalface of Truth and requires my attention. Today, in hopeful sunshine, we visited Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens. The world had come out of their winter burrows and was enjoying the whiff of a new season. People were loafing about reading […]