It has been a challenging week. As we drove back from a weekend up North, Georgie was sick so violently it hit the windscreen, and so copiously I had to scoop it out of the footwell with my bare hands. Parked on the hard shoulder of the M1, I hosed poor naked Georgie down with […]
Parenting
I am a fallen tree
When life becomes a little overwhelming, and the past threatens to interrupt the peace of the present, I go for a walk. I was on such a walk when I saw a tree stretching right across the path. It must have fallen many, many years ago: the ground is settled, and the earth has built […]
The dangers of unprotected sex
Much has been debated about the benefits of providing early sex education to children, but new research has indicated a worrying gap in the system. Young couples in their twenties and early thirties are receiving little or no information about the true dangers of unprotected sex. This post aims to raise awareness. Before you drop […]
Parenting: quantity, not quality
It’s six-thirty in the evening and my daughter is screaming at me. Her face is red and she can hardly breathe with the exertion of informing me that I’m the ‘worst Mummy in the world.’ Her twin sister has been crying for the last twenty minutes, because I have asked her to tidy up her […]
Why I hate television
I hate television with a passion rivalled only by my views on the Daily Mail. Were it not for my husband, who would suffer delirium tremens a mere hour or two after the withdrawal of sports coverage, I would gladly rid the house of them. Television absorbs one’s attention in a way radio, books […]
My children cannot close doors
I have identified a major problem in all of my children. They appear to be physically incapable of closing doors, cupboards and drawers. It’s possible they may have something terribly wrong with them. After all, they can certainly open the coat cupboard, the playroom drawers and the cupboard in which we keep the cereal. They […]