Photo by Martin Godwin It’s leap day tomorrow and my girls will be four years old. We’ll be celebrating their special birthday on the BBC Breakfast sofa, which should make for a suitably interesting anecdote for them to tell at dinner parties when they’re older. They were in The Guardian on Saturday and seem to […]
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I want to be a man
I’m thinking about having a sex change. It’s a big decision, I know, and I understand from the pamphlet I picked up at the doctor’s surgery that I can’t leap straight into surgery. I have to live as a man for at least a year first. Well that suits me. In fact I plan to […]
Flying solo at half-term
I’m on my own with the children this half-term. The thought of kicking about the house for a week fills me with horror, so when a press trip to a UK holiday resort was dangled before me, I grabbed it with both hands. I compiled my packing list which, summarised, looked something like this: several […]
Best friends
My five-year-old son has a best friend. Forged in the very first week of his first term at school, their friendship has remained steadfast over the last few months, despite the ups and downs of classroom life. Towards the end of last year my son was ill for a full week, staying home from school […]
A Misunderstanding at the Pharmacy
Over the last few years I have accumulated quite a cache of drugs. Nothing wildly out of the ordinary, just an array of prescription painkillers with a sprinkling of sleeping tablets thrown in for good measure. Most of the packets were out of date and several were untouched so I thought it wise to get […]
The Annual Round Robin Letter
The people we bought our house from were rather slapdash in their change of address cards. Every now and then a letter drops through the door addressed to the previous occupants and I love nothing more than to settle down with a cup of tea to read their latest correspondence. I know it’s faintly illegal, […]