My truth I once had a truth. It was a glinty-eyed runt in the litter of my life’s history. When I gazed at it, love squeezed my soul: I fed it the nicest morsels, held it close in the dark. And it grew big and strong. One day it escaped – bounding and fanged – […]
Lockdown parenting – the real deal isn’t pretty
It’s sickening, isn’t it? From Facebook to Instagram and back again, families hand-in-hand on sunlit meadows, tiny hands baking cupcakes, wobbly colourful art, snuggling up on sofas and the results of tie-dye. Where on earth has the tie-dye fascination come from? Up and down the nation, parents are doing their best, and putting the most […]
Philip Schofield comes out and I’m very cross about it
On bad news and good news
It’s been a bit of a mixed week for Boy Three – culminating with being fired out of a cannon, cunningly disguised as a cement mixer (the cannon, not the child). He has spent much of the last week twanging with worry about coronavirus. Not surprising really as everywhere he turns, news outlets are giving […]
