Oh, the irony of it! As I left the house in the early hours of this morning, I yelled at my eldest; “YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW I HAVE HAD TO PUT MY LIFE ON HOLD – IN ORDER TO BRING YOU UP! YES! I USED TO *HAVE* A LIFE OF MY OWN YOU KNOW!” […]
Listen Up. BBC at Best.
Me n’ mine have been asked to feature in the BBC’s ‘Listening Project’ on a few occasions. Thanks largely, to the matters that involve my family’s background, experiences, international work, kids and views on consumerism – and of course, our proclivities for nude rambling across the Trans-Pennine Trail … ok, ok – I’m joshing about […]
Go Ask Your Mother… Or Even Better -Grill Your Granny
Do you know what an ‘inter-generational’ project is? Sounds riveting, eh? But before you expire of boredom in anticipation of today’s little bloggy-offering, please let me reassure you that this whole ‘inter-generational project’ malarky truly IS something to write home about. That it genuinely IS something that should tickle all of our fancies. In the […]
Sharing the Love
Now this wasn’t planned, but my 100th blog post has ended up addressing the love of my life; Books. Reading. Writing. Otherwise known as literacy. But rather than wibbling on about why I’m so besotted with all of the above, instead, I’m going to kick off with a bit of Shock and Outrage (because hey, […]
Theft of a Feathery Friend
The greatest pleasure of having children is when they Achieve. With a capital A. When they come home with straight A’s, get into the ‘best school’ and then ‘choose’ that highly respected or financially lucrative career path that you’ve been not-so-subtly prepping them for. Ah yes. Nothing more rewarding than when you finally see the […]
Bookish But NEVER Boring…
Reporting back from the promise in my previous blog – to expose the kiddywinks to those Public Information films that so many of us were nurtured with in post-war Britain, I have to say that I am rather disappointed. We watched many – and the general consensus was “Freaky! Creepy!” or “well you never took […]