FAMILY AFFAIRS I have been at home all week without my children and consequently I have barely slept at all. Fitful, hot, cold, toss, turn, up, down sleep that leaves me feeling exhausted every morning. Apparently I am also going through another “transition” or life change which I can’t really […]
This is wonderful:-
I am home alone and marginally depressed. It is Bank Holiday Monday and it hasn’t stopped pouring with rain all day. My children left this morning to go on holiday to Greece with their father and his new family. I forgot to make a plan for myself in the meantime. […]
My stress levels runneth over as my children set off to danger zones around the world. Today TWO of my children are off the the Notting Hill Carnival and my 14 year old is probably at the Full Moon Party in Thailand for all I know. Is it because I’m […]
We are all in love with this song by George Ezra called Budapest in our house at the moment – our new family favourite – so cool and laid back that I can’t quite work out what it’s all about – obviously it’s about a woman he’d give it all […]
Not entirely sure what “Mosquito Day” is… except that it’s today. So Happy Mosquito Day to all – is it a mosquito appreciation day or more a malaria and Japanese Encephalitis awareness sort of day. The thing is, my youngest child will be most certainly aware of lots of mosquitoes […]
Twas the night after A Levels results, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse….AND IT”S THE BLOODY AFTERNOON ALREADY. Although, to be fair, I was up bright and early sweeping up all the broken glass and a lone snail that had somehow got […]
Twas the night after A Levels results, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse….AND IT”S THE BLOODY AFTERNOON ALREADY. Although, to be fair, I was up bright and early sweeping up all the broken glass and a lone snail that had somehow got […]
I am feeling sick. A level results are out tomorrow and my daughter is now super nervous about them, as are all her friends. Decisions made from the results they get tomorrow will affect the course of their whole lives and it upsets me that this has to be the […]
In a recent survey by Relate called “The Way We Live Now” it appears that one in four married people in Britain has had or is having an affair. This is a very depressing state of affairs (pun intended). Where do they find these people? If they are asking those […]
I have just finished “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt and would thoroughly recommend it. It is a rare luxury in this day and age to be able to find the time to read a full sized novel in less than a month. You would think that the rules we have […]
Sometimes (not often), I long for my children to be small and helpless again so that I am responsible for them and can look after them and do everything in my power to keep them safe. This is especially true of travelling – it is certainly a lot easier to […]
