The sideboard is still littered with bilious orange sweeties left over from Halloween yet Christmas has started to loom. This year, the first hearing of “it’s Christmaaaaaaas” in a retail environment was recorded the Friday before last. However, it hasn’t triggered it’s usual fit of fury and resistance. I’m calm and, whisper it, even […]
Spookily in disguise as a proper parenting blogger
Did you have a good Halloween? I spent mine in an MLitt class with a lot of poetry in it followed by some chasing around the county collecting and dropping off children. The poetry has the potential to be very scary – or not. Just when I think I’ve got the measure of it and […]
Down with tinsel
… At least for another month. I arrived in Aviemore on Friday night. For a yoga weekend, if you care. And the bright moonlight bounced off the orange and yellows in the trees. Sometimes the mild gusts caught another handful of crinkly leaves and flung them down the Main Street. Autumn colours suitably pumpkiny for […]