Late at night, when I finally get around to going to bed, I always go and check on the kids before I go to sleep myself. I go into their rooms and make sure everyone is where they should be, is breathing and is appropriately covered for the temperature of the room. I always feel a sense of contentment when I’m doing this....
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Like most children, ours already have fixed ideas about what they want to do when they grow up. DD1 is 11 and wants to stop wars and help save the animals Nine year old DD2 wants to do something with disabled children, DD3 ( 7) wants to be vet for an animal charity and DS (5) wants to be a train driver. All very normal...
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I’ve just spent the last 15 minutes deciding what I’m going to write about today. The idea part of my brain seems to need rebooting today; when I went there just now, all I got was a bit of static. So I turned to the ideas page in my diary. This is where I jot down things that I think I may be able to write about in...
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Parents seem to fall firmly into with the No! or the Yes! camp when it comes to their kids having a Kindle or other kind of eReader. Their attitude seems to depend heavily on their own experience of ebooks. Those people who have never picked up a Kindle in an act of stubborn loyality to ‘real’ books are unlikely to be...
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I love Hotel Chocolat. I loved them the first time I tried some of their stuff; their chocolate is just divine. Unfortunately, their closest store is in a town about 20 minutes away, so I don’t get to go and browse very often. Still, at least they have an online shop. Anyhow, yesterday I happened to be in the town that has a...
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In 2001 I was 30 years of age, had an interesting job, a husband that loved me, we had no financial worries and were having a baby that we had planned. I should have been over the moon, but I wasn’t. Instead I spent a lot of the 9 months of that pregnancy thinking about killing myself. No one knew how bad I felt. Perhaps I...
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