Things I’ve learned during April The train makes for a very smooth transition for the big Boys from their dad’s. I’ve written before about the trials of transitionitis at Readyforten. So when the ash clouds stranded the Boys at Euro Disney, poor lambs, and they had to come back by train I thought I was […]
Face wrestling, dream rooms and a new cruelty
Things I’ve learned from my children. The cuddle is dead, long live the face wrestle. Boy Three has started to show affection to his favourite people. He’ll grin at pretty much anyone including pictures of babies on nappy packets. He chortles easily – melting the hearts of passing strangers. He waves enthusiastically with both arms […]
Gordon Brown: the rest of the tape revealed
We all know what happened when Gordon Brown got into his car after his chat with 66-year-old Gillian Duffy in Rochdale yesterday. But did you know that the Prime Minister kept the mic on all evening? Here’s what you would have heard if the tape had kept running: Some grunting and very thumpy rhytmical noises. […]
Monday Moment: what are you waiting for?
French fancies and a little light music…
Things I learned from my children today. There really isn’t any point in taking little children anywhere special. Wait until they are at school. Boys One and Two had a lovely Easter holiday in EuroDisney with their dad and his mother. They – eventually, thank you Icelandic volcano – came home bubbling with stories about […]
The sun has got his hat on and his factor 50 and his sandals
Spring is sprung the grass is… full of poo again
Summer is around the corner and the reason I know this is the Panther of News and I have already made the opening moves in the it’s-not-my-turn-to-mow-the-lawn game. I wandered the estate this morning to survey the crops and weigh up the failed horticultural projects of 2010. OK, I opened the French windows and looked […]
Write about now they’ve gone and done it
There’s an old joke about two journalists who meet in the pub. One says: “What have you been doing?’The other replies: “Oh, writing my novel.”The first one says: “Yeah. Me neither.” That’s the thing they – we – are all writing ‘the’ novel and waiting to be discovered as a serious writer not just a […]