State of this…

This is the reality of life with children. I’ve heard that girls are worse than boys. I wouldn’t want to generalise but this is certainly the case in my house.   Here is what was under the spare room, which Eliza has been occupying while painting her...

Creativity

On so many evenings like this I return home from a performance at school bursting with pride that my offspring have been lucky enough to attend their school. Tonight it was a short performance for the Friends of the school (and parents of the performers). There were...

Networking

A willowy 15 year old girl, with stupidly long dark hair, nestles in a high-backed armchair in a branch of a well-known coffee chain at a large out-of-town shopping centre. Killing time waiting for her mother to finish having her nails done, she is sipping a large...

Brass for Africa – a very special occasion

This is just a short one tonight. The OH has to get up at 5.20 in the morning so I can’t be long. We’ve just returned from a concert at school – you probably know that our school has a theatre and concert venue and regularly attracts world-class...

Happy birthday sweet 16

  It’s not quite the birthday I’d planned for her, but I’m thankful that we at least had a dining table and I could cook a proper meal and some brownies....