Experts have concluded that women who eat a hearty breakfast are more likely to conceive sons. Not quite sure if anyone has asked Victoria Beckham for her thoughts…However, recently we passed the anniversary of Dad’s death. Yes, really, it’s been a year. In typical style we took to the hills – some 20 of us […]
on target idea
Boy Two held his sixth birthday party yesterday – an elaborate affair with dinosaurs and a pinata. There was, of course, a cake. Prevously we’d set out to choose the cake – T-Rex, Bart Simpson, football. The choices were endless.As we pulled into the supermarket car park he asked: “Can I have a gun cake?”“What […]
boys hanging around
Ms-ing in action
It’s 2008.We live in a society where there’s hardly any racism or homophobia, not many people drive drunk and grown up laws protect all kinds of people from unfairness at work. Babies don’t die from preventable diseases very often and it’s possible to buy strawberries all year round. So this is progress – we’ve never […]
Game for it
a tale of two girls
Shannon Matthews is nine. She vanished on her way home from school two weeks ago in Dewsbury West Yorkshire. Madeleine McCann is three. She vanished from a holiday apartment in Portugal last May.Why is Maddie still earning page leads in national newspapers while poor Shannon is already relegated to a few paragraphs at the side […]
Mayhem in Millport
“Would you like a children’s menu?” Not an unusual question to be asked in a family friendly cafe, you’d think. But you normally would anticipate hearing it long before you’d been there for a thirsty while trying to pick something hungry children will eat from an adult menu.(yes, yes, I know in pre-Boys days I […]
Take a bow
Tilda Swinton. Not only has she collected a best supporting actress Oscar without losing her cool or gushing on and on, but for seeming to have it all. She’s got a successful film career which appears to be picking up as most 47 year old actresses are slowing down. She lives in a fabulous mansion […]