You are missing – and so a part of me is always missing too. You are gone – and so a part of me has gone forever with you. You were here – a part of you is with me in all my days and all the dark of night. I saw you with my […]
Archives for 2013
The Silent Salute #WaveOfLight
There are days when I ache to speak of Freddie with my voice, not my fingers. Days when I wish for someone to sit with me and hold me while I sift his hospital notes and my hastily copied social media comments for the snippets of his life which have fled my memory. There are […]
Health warning: large families of active kids are a bad idea.
I was trying to explain our schedule of life earlier on (twice in two days actually, as you do) and it struck me that it might be an interesting moment to write out how our week pans out at this point in time. I’ve noticed that I blog less often now, which relates less to […]
Bene made some cakes. Which is not the whole blog post.
When I wanted another baby, part of it was that I so wanted to be able to do better at all the things I felt I had failed to do well with the girls; I was too busy, 4 children in 6 years rather took its toll, there wasn’t enough time, I was tired etc […]
Who am I? Who are you?
I know I’m not the only one who has been left sadly bereft with the loss of Google Reader. I know they want G+ to take its place, but I very much doubt it ever will for me. I don’t want my content to be tailored and guided and sorted for me; I want things […]
Changing the story for the UK's poorest children #EducationMatters
About 8 years ago I was staying in a building where a literacy programme was running for young adults who needed a ‘fresh start’ and literacy help. As a group of home educators, late readers were nothing new to us, most of us there had at least one 8 year old who was not yet […]
I will conker you!
It’s a familiar scene of devastation from my childhood. Battle worn, cracked and broken, hopes and dreams shattered as another beast hits the deck and dies a death. Conkers. Oh how I loved the days when Goose Fair came to Nottingham and the netball courts were filled with rides; instead of sport, we went conker […]
Amelie again. Another trip to hospital.
You know how some children just cause you nothing but trouble in the health care department? In this house, that’s Amelie. This week she excelled herself with a dramatic bit of poorliness we still haven’t got to the bottom of that resulted in some of this… Another trip to a&e. It started very suddenly on […]
Review: Chewits Crazy Carnival App
It’s hard to say no to the offer of a game to play and a box of sweeties, so the girls were very happy to be offered the Chewits Crazy Carnival Facebook app to epxlore recently, in return for a day out and a box of Chewits. There has been much gaming and much chewing […]
The boy and the train.
When we are old and the kids are all grown, we will remember the days when one of us just took them to something they would love, for the hell of it. We will forget the washing and untidy bedrooms and endless yelling and food on the floor and plates left unstacked. It will be […]
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