Heart palpitation moment. After 10 years of rain growing from a trickle-tickle and into an indoor waterfall-feature within your home, you finally realise that you need a bit of a re-roofing jobby. And because your dear wee housie is a 4 storey 1790s weaver cottage, you require the entire thing to be scaffolded-up. Bummer-moments; the […]
Stupid Arguments, Stupid Actions.
Pt 3. My 13 yr old providing words of wisdom, once more. —————————————————————– “Mum, what’s the stupidest argument that you’ve ever had with anyone?” “How do you mean? You mean at work? Or at home? Or in a shop, or on Question Time and that sort of thing?” “Well, when you behaved the most stupidly […]
Maturity. Plus heroin and bad hair.
Part 2… Feedback from my previous post about conversations with my daughter were all quite positive, but someone noted, “don’t you ever talk to your son then?” Certainly, I do. Well, I try to. But he’s going through a phase at the moment where, whatever I say to him, is met with the response of; […]
The Grown-up Chats – Part 1
I don’t know anyone who has enjoyed this year. For a variety of reasons. But during the last week, I realised that one thing that I have truly benefitted from myself, over the last 12 months is the wisdom and insight of my (now) fledgling teenager. Yes – I’m a firm believer in ignoring the […]
The Contest of Conversation
Regular readers might have already picked up that my 9-year-old is a lad of few words. Certainly, when compared to his 13-year-old sister and to his mother, he is. But as he gets older, I am noticing that the few words that he can be bothered to chuck out in our general direction, are always […]
The People Who Matter
I lost my best friend a few years ago. How very careless of you, some might think – and to be honest, it does sometimes feel like I was a bit remiss. Didn’t tell her everything that I wanted to, took her never-failing friendship for granted, didn’t make her enough of those endless cups of […]