I went to see my GP the other day with symptoms that were clearly related to the menopause and he actually said that he didn’t really know much about it and advised me to re-book an appointment with a female doctor. WTF? How is that acceptable in this day and […]
My prediction is that by the end of this week a second referendum will have been scheduled. I realise this will be disruptive and not to the satisfaction of half of the country but what else is there to do now? The end of May is nigh. She’s battled on, […]
No matter what the question, family is the answer….so HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FAMILIES to you all. This should be an international bank holiday – better than Mother’s and Father’s Day as the family is the very foundation of society. Some of the most formative years of our lives are […]
Well, good old Greta, young Greta I should say, is proving to be quite a thing. She’s massively trending and on the cover of most of the national papers here. Good for her! It’s time we had someone like her throwing a spanner into the works and causing a fuss. […]
I have just spent a few days away in France, staying near a little town called Eymet, in the South West Dordogne region and not far from Bergerac. Eymet is a beautiful, typical Bastide town layout which includes an open central square, featuring a large fountain, with roads lined with […]
Easter, even if you’re not religious is a good time to reflect on what is meant by a good life and it can offer a hopefully useful answer: that success is not about worldly triumph, money or happiness but about developing an ability to use one’s own suffering as a […]
This post could also be entitled “Let’s Talk About Poo,” like my last blog post, but this one is in fact about Brexit. Not that much to say that hasn’t already been said over and over and over again. We all have Brexit exhaustion and I have chosen to stick […]
It’s Bowel Cancer Awareness Month and so I thought I ought to say a few words about the uncomfortable subject of talking about poo. My father died of bowel cancer and I’m fairly sure part of the reason is that he left it far longer than he should have to […]
HAPPY SINGLE PARENTS DAY!! I know that being a lone parent is very hard work and very often thankless. Doing the every day stuff on your own means there is no one to support or agree with you, no one who comes home to you at the end of a […]
BREXIT DAY IS LOOMING WITH JUST 8 DAYS TO GO AND WE ARE NO CLEARER ABOUT THE PLAN. WHERE IS THE PLAN? THERE IS NO FUCKING PLAN. We are in a vacuum at best with the danger of falling into a big black hole next week. Totally unbelievable to be […]
My youngest child has just taken off for Thailand for the start of his gap year travels with some mates. Now I just have to work out how to carry on living my life and not worrying about him every 30 seconds. I’ve done all I can and now it’s […]
Blimey. The scandal in America regarding desperate parents bribing coaches and cheating on students’ entrance exams has reached a new low. Some parents have apparently paid $500,000 to a “university admissions consultant” who can then get their children into the universities of choice such as Yale and Stamford, through the […]
I hate this stupid ongoing trend for Gap Year Travel. I wasn’t bloody allowed to have one – probably because they weren’t invented when I was their age, but honestly, it’s so traumatic for the parents, I think they should be banned – at least until their frontal lobes are […]
