A week ago, I took Boy One to his place of education – car laden with lots of things I was quite happy to see the back of and lots of other stuff that it had somehow come essential for me to buy. A big step for us both. Not least because his Asperger’s has, […]
Less celebrated things about being a parent
Lovely as my boys are, from time to time, I find myself having an ‘I don’t remember signing up for this’ moment. Here’s the most recent batch: Parenthood is… Being ignored by your teenagers on several social media platforms at once. Buying beetroot so your 7YO can have pink pee. Feeling excluded when teenagers talk […]
Looking in the mental handbag
Gah. Why is it that all those brilliant ideas you had for blog posts vanish as soon as you manage to get half an hour’s peace? It’s weird. I had so many things to say that would set the Internet on fire with their amazing insight. Now I don’t. In the absence of anything wiser, […]
Trutex – school uniform goes to the top of the class
About this time of year, organized folk start thinking about getting their act together for the forthcoming term. Normal people (the rest of us) pretend it isn’t happening and then hurtle around the shops in a mad flap the day before school goes back, trying to work out why – once again – the only […]
School shoes: Things I learned from being in charge of a centipede*
School shoes. Flipping hate them – hated them when they were on my feet and I hate them even more now I have to pay for them. I know they’re necessary. Children need something to put on their feet, after all. And uniform is a good idea. Black, everywhere. Like my mood as we sit […]