I’ve thought of myself as a home educator for years, even recently when the kids were in and out of school, though “home educator at heart” is, probably quite rightly, sniffed at by pure home educators. But it was how I felt, my life has been kid centric, both family and educational provision, for 18 […]
A mother’s day.
I watched Mother’s Day drift past yesterday with a sort of wry amusement; 17 years on from my first, I’ve long got over the fact that if you build it up as a day where you expect a combination of the most thoughtless elements of the house (children) combined with the least slushy and demonstrative […]
A day in London for friendship with bonus mental health tests.
The radio silence this summer has mostly been me working my way through a pit of mental health issues that I felt too ashamed to write about. I’m probably not ready to do so yet, but perhaps it is more appropriate to start blogging again and allude to the ways I’m trying to manage them […]
Lost me again.
There was a time when I sat here and splurged out my feelings and our comings and goings and doings. The internet used to be a safe place to do so, relatively speaking. There were days when I could splurge out my feelings and make reference obliquely to things that were going on where I […]
For fear of living dangerously.
The last plane ride I took involved me not quite sobbing for most of the journey and actually weeping for some of it, while simultaneously trying to calm Fran who kept panicking that the call button chime meant disaster was imminent and quell Amelie who wanted detailed explanations of the emergency procedures sign plastered 5 […]
Sunny side up.
I’m finding it pretty hard to see the wood for the trees at the moment. I’m trading my time for money in a way that is necessary but not wildly fulfilling and not contributing anything other than 7 large tummy sustaining funds to the future. I want to build something bright and exciting and instead […]
On role models & International Women's Day.
I’m the daughter of an empowered woman. She’s a professor, a researcher, someone who made her life the way she chose it. I’m the grand daughter of an empowered woman, of her generation. An equal marriage, an earner as well as a mother and housewife, someone still living independently at nearly 90, someone who has […]
She's that certain age.
I turned 41 this week. That’s well into the ‘I can remember my mum and dad being 41’ realms of “oh my dragons, I’m old” band, right along side, “this means I am 7 years younger than my mum was when I made her a granny” (SHRIEK). 41 is okay. It’s better than dead, anyway, […]
Making Christmas.
I don’t really want Christmas this year. Not in the same way that the last 4 Christmases have been their own tiny version of hell (I can’t believe this is our 5th Christmas without Freddie any more than I can believe it 3rd Christmas with Bene) but in a glum way, a dissatisfied with what […]
The things you do. Or I do, in this case.
I wrote a few months ago about how I was leaving our businesses behind to work on my own income stream. I know you’ve seen evidence of it and I’m sorry if it can be annoying at times. I’m doing my best to make it manageable and I’m very grateful to people who reliably comment […]
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