Blimey oh Riley. We’ve already had record viewing figures for my British Library talk this morning. As part of their ‘Unfinished Business – the Fight for Women’s Rights’, I decided to do a talk called ‘A Room of One’s Own – I Wish!’ The talk was all about how it is nigh on impossible to […]
Big Mother – Watching You
Lockdown once more and I’ve had to move my 12-year-old son so he’s in the same room as me, whilst he ‘home schools’. It seems that tinkering with the parental controls, blocking YouTube and his favourite gaming sites have not been fool proof enough. Big Mother needs to be watching him… At first, I felt […]
WARNING! Kids Joining Microsoft Teams …
Today we had the first ever experience of kids at our high school having LIVE lessons online. At 9 am, I tried to help my son navigate round MS Teams, a zillion messages were pinging between the members of his class as they tried to figure out what they needed to do. In fact, I […]
There’s Hope and Joy Yet! Even on our Landing.
ME: ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour, for he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden.’ DAUGHTER: What the hell are you on about? ME: Don’t say ‘hell.’ like that. It sounds common. ‘For behold from henceforth, all generations shall call me blessed. For he that […]
Embarrassing The Geeks
My children were asked what was the most embarrassing thing that their mother has ever done. Apparently, it was the time we were in The Geek Side shop and I started telling the shop assistant how much I loathed Dobby and how Dobby was the most ridiculous creation ever, and should have been blasted to […]
Power Struggles. And Strippergrams
“Mum, why is it, that no-one ever arrests strippergrams for ‘impersonating a police officer’?” I mean … I’ve always preferred the sort of kids who are interested in political and sociological issues, who chat about concepts such as the ‘police state’ and who possess an inquisitive mind, but …. this question did stump me somewhat. […]
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