In another of those moments they don’t tell you about, I found myself gazing at the bathroom mirror trying to work out if my earlobes had begun to droop or not. It turns out that time is something of a bitch, or maybe it’s gravity that the real villain. Either way, there’s no doubt about […]
Ski-ing again after 10 years – things I learned
Things I learned from skiing in Scotland
On Saturday, Boy Two discovered that the strings attached to his snowboarding lessons were that he had to accompany his mother on trips to Glencoe when it suited her. “Really?” He said opening one eye. “Maybe later.” It was early o’clock on a Saturday and he had big plans with a box set and some […]
School shoes: Things I learned from being in charge of a centipede*
Why would you want to turn back time?
We’re used to outlandish claims from the beauty industry, and of them making up problems and products to fix them. So many cosmetics companies (or, at least, their marketing chaps) like to suggest that their overpriced unguents will turn back time. Time travel, if you will, to younger days. Like a Tardis, I suppose, in […]