For a little while now we have been coming to the realisation that there may be more to Rufus’s personality, that there may in fact be an underlying explanation for his idiosyncrasies. Rufus is kind, intelligent, brave and all around […]
I haven’t posted on here for a while and there’s a few reasons for that. The first being that the big kids are both now in school full time and while that has freed up some time for me during […]
When I was 20 years old I met a man. He was seven years older than me and he changed me forever. For years after I questioned how I let it happen, how I got to that place, and what […]
So we’ve made it. We’ve made it to the end of week two of the Summer holidays. The kids have had swimming lessons, we’ve been to the park, gone riding on our bikes, had a new boiler installed (on the […]
This week I got a whole year older – I’m now 33! I know, I know – it’s not that old but it feels old. I’m solidly in my 30s, I own my own home (with a mortgage), I am […]
Over the last few weeks I have been made aware that many members of the support teaching staff and early years educators at my kids’ school are taking voluntary redundancy. Voluntary Redundancy is a legal term. It’s not a real […]
Since my kids have been born there has been a huge political and social swing to the right. The easy examples to point at are Brexit, the Conservatives in general and of course the great orange blimp that is Trump […]
I am white, blonde and blue-eyed, when white people see me their snap judgements will have them thinking that I’m probably English speaking, with an easy to pronounce name for other white people, an accent that white people can understand […]
I think if you are someone who is even slightly self aware or self critical you will have events that stand out in your life, events that mark certain behaviours or traits that you aren’t particularly proud of. What counselling […]
I have this thing I do, when I’m stressed or my mind is working on something that I can’t quite access. I begin to obsess. I obsess about all sorts of benign things and they take up so much mental […]