What a lovely place this is – so quite and far from all that Brexitery. Wonderful. It has taken a few days to shake myself free of the holiday torpor. I’d embraced inactivity with such gusto, I was starting to get concerned that my ability to do anything briskly had vanished totally. While not exactly […]
Don’t make me do the mums’ race… ever
Things your children don’t need
Back to offering unrequested advice again. This time parenting advice, like it or not. It’s almost Boy Three’s seventh birthday. (Seven! I know, can you believe it?) So it was necessary to organise a celebration. Interesting how there’s an inverse correlation between the number of children’s birthdays you’ve presided over and the level of […]
Uprising of the mediocre
Winter is coming: The chilling effect of Game of Thrones
You know something serious has happened when, despite the deadline clock ticking, you find yourself on a website that discusses the relative hotness of the male characters of a TV series. Furthermore, you catch yourself vehemently disagreeing with the opinions therein. Even if he wasn’t a psychopath, Joffrey Lannister wouldn’t muster tepid, let alone hot. […]