The kids are back to school. The training sessions have resumed. Life is very quickly getting back to its crazy and frantic normality after a long, hot and lazy summer. So what better time to choose to go cold turkey on my drug of choice, my own personal poison than the start of term? …
Flat Pack Furniture
There are two ways of buying new furniture. There’s the old reliable way of going to the nearest furniture store, consulting with pushy sales assistants and eventually selecting the option most suitable. Or, there’s the other way. The one where you check out catalogues and wander around large international stores armed with a map and…
Spontaneous Beach Fun
We had the tiniest football you’ve ever seen, a long forgotten one discovered in the depths of the car boot. There wasn’t a bucket and spade to be found, not a hint of a surfboard, not a shovel or a kite, not as much as a tube of bubbles. Just four adults and five children,…
Life as a Leftie
My daughter and I are among an elite group that make up about 10% of the world’s population. We apparently should be better at sports, have higher IQ’s, be more creative and artistic and marvellous at multi-tasking. Now, it could be said that this is because we are female but actually it’s because we are…
Exam Results Time
I came across a letter recently written to a class of students from a teacher in Lancashire at the end of the school year. In it the teacher gave out results from exams as well as praising the students’ efforts over the year and complimenting them on other areas of excellence. It made me think. …
My Time
It’s long since dark outside. The lights are low. The streets are empty. The house is finally quiet. I have walked the floors for hours with you on my shoulder. Now you are finally asleep and miraculously in your own little cot. Your big brother and sister have been safe in the land of nod…
Hearsay by Aideen 