Archive | July, 2007
PRESENTATION NIGHT
My daughters presentation night was last night, where all sixty of the children in the final year met to celebrate their seven years in primary school – the longest time you spend at any school or university (so why can’t I remember any of it?).
Jemma Redgrave was the special guest, which was quite a coup for a small state primary school. She was lovely and she gave a great speech. She told them that she was so nervous she felt sick and that standing in front of sixty children and their parents was far more scary than acting, but that in life it was OK to feel nervous and don’t think that other people, who may perhaps look more confident weren’t feeling nervous too.
She told them to “be bold, be brave, be scared, that it’s almost always worth it”. I thought that was a great message for life. Obviously managing successfully to bring it btm – back to me, trying to extract myself from a marriage that was wrong was more scary than anything else I have ever done, terrifying in fact, but it’s OK to challenge yourself. Be scared. It’s the only way to learn about yourself, to grow. If you do something every day that scares you (not necessarily going Black Mamba hunting you appreciate), something that gets you even slightly out of your comfort zone then you can be the best that you have to offer and the person you didn’t know you could be.
SPORTS DAY
13. July 2007
‘Tis the season to find yourself in a frenzy of end of term activity. Particularly if, like me, you have a child just about to leave primary school. There have been end of year drinks, end of year parties, end of year productions, end of year trips to Chessington Zoo, end of year [...]
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7. July 2007
Today is the luckiest day of the century apparently. Elavated to such a status by the number “seven’s” international reputation as a lucky number. It is significant in the Bible (the world was created in seven days), prominent with the Hindu and Muslim faiths, in the Torah and in the Japanese Shinto religion. [...]
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6. July 2007
“Mum, we need to have a serious chat” said my six year old the minute he woke up this morning. He dragged me down to the kitchen and made me sit on a chair. He sat opposite me. “WHERE ARE MY PRESENTS?” was the sum of the serious chat. “I have [...]
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5. July 2007
My gorgeous, funny, challenging six year old is going to be 7 on Saturday. He has the coolest birthday ever, especially this year. He is going to be 7 on the 7th of the 7th 2007 – how cool is that? We have been planning his birthday for months, obviously. I [...]
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3. July 2007
It is that time of year. Previously, my most dreaded time of year. My reports were always appalling – so bad that they used to have to try really hard to find positive things to say, such as “she is very good at drinking her milk” (pre-Thatcher child). All I remember is [...]
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17. July 2007
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