Hi, it’s Perpetual Pollyanna here again banging my tiny little drum on the subject of positive thinking. The week began with Boy One taking the huge leap of joining his primary seven classmates at the outdoor centre at Ardentinny. Exhaustive preparations ended with me dropping off a pale and over-excited 11-year-old off at school with […]
Crimes against my children
Silent Sunday
Things I learned from my de-cluttering homework
Meccano: the nuts and bolts of a solution
Brace yourselves for a bad joke. I’ve always said my sons were really creative. They can make a mess with anything. Told you so. But they do have their construction moments. Lego has long been the medium of choice, although toe jam and ear wax sometimes suffice. Consequently we have flipping tonnes of it in […]
If you’re happy and you know it answer any of the four questions that rate how you feel about yesterday
It was raining in Glasgow and it seemed to me that motorists were deliberately hitting those oily puddles as people walked past. They wouldn’t be trying to soak a passer-by, would they? For once I didn’t get a splashing. And I arrived on time at the Marriot Hotel where the British Psychological Society was holding […]
I’ve got a little list – Mikado madness
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 […]
