This will be our fourth Christmas without him. I’m quite practiced at this now. I’ve learned what to do and what not to do. I know I’ll cry when I see 5 stocking put out, but not as hard as I cried at 4 and when it felt like there was no hope of there […]
Favourite Fraction – not Fat and Forty.
If you know me on any of the instant gratification social media channels I live on, you’ll know I’ve been dieting. And I’ve been needily posting up my successes for cheerleading and praise 😆 If you remember back here when I was just starting out, I was already feeling a lot better. That photo was one […]
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 […]
We don't talk about the SCBU days.
I’m writing today at Glow in the Woods about the reality of parenting after losing a child who lived his whole life in the care of the medical people we trust with our lives and who couldn’t save him. I don’t write much about the SCBU days. It’s still too painful to think about, let […]
It's been outstanding… #MadBlogAwards
So. A friend, or two, say you should start blogging and you think about it for a while and you think that maybe you will. You write about the first words a daughter says and how it feels when wasp larvae eat the caterpillars and there are a lot of Hama Beads and an awful […]
Doing. Not Thinking. Doing.
I don’t think there is anything I’m more inclined to derisory snarkiness over than people ‘talking the talk but not walking the walk’, people who talk about plans and hopes and dreams who never actually put them into practise or get further than saying they want to do something, be something, achieve something. I’ve realised […]
LIfe from the Laundrette.
Two week holidays mean doing a load of washing midweek. It’s a novelty for me to go to a laundrette, even more to have a quiet morning of domestic jobs that give me quiet moments in between. If I went to a laundrette at home, I’d be supervising my washing to make sure it didn’t […]
Do not say they drive you mad.
If, wearied, you wish the summer holidays to end and peace to reign again at home, I ask you to count. Count the weeks of holiday from now till that 18th year, when examinations stop – and life begins. Count the Christmas tumble weeks, count the raining Easter weeks, count the weeks of trips away […]
It's not beautiful, but it is mine.
I’ve been trying to lose weight, after a fairly hideous scales moment where I saw a number I never wanted to see. My physical self confidence has been slithering away pretty hard and fast lately, to the point where it is affecting more parts of my life than I care to write out loud. I […]
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