MALE OFFSPRING: Arrrghhh! I can’t do this! I HATE this! I HATE it! ME: Oh for…..(stopping myself)…it’s just homework! The sooner you get it done – the better. MALE OFFSPRING: That’s alright for you to say! You said you never had nowt given you as homework when you were a kid. But I’m just 6! […]
Worms and Words
Certain kid turned DOUBLE DIGITS today. Enjoyed her pressies at the brekkie table (big thrill was being treated to a poached egg… I ask you! Is it a roller-coaster of giddy consumerist excess in this household – or what?) And then it was over to studying the pressies. She was sitting and a-reading the packaging […]
For the ‘Chicks’…AND the Chaps
Women and Men in The West – regardless of their upbringing or education or politics… or of how well-read they are often don’t realise how different the paradigm is for girls and women (and the men in their lives) when it comes to equality and gender issues in the most developed and marganalised communities in […]
The MINX hit the Media – Thanks to Radio 4
Last week that marvellous and historical comic THE BEANO asked mine (and me) to explain on primetime BBC RADIO 4’s ‘Saturday Live’ as part of the PR surrounding it’s 75th anniversary. My wee gal is only 8 but seemed to steal the show – as she explained why and how THE BEANO got her to […]