I’VE FORGOTTEN HOW TO SKI!
A group of us have just come back from a skiing holiday based around a close friend’s birthday. Admittedly, I was never a particularly good or confident skier, having only learnt in my late 20’s, but I used to be […]
A group of us have just come back from a skiing holiday based around a close friend’s birthday. Admittedly, I was never a particularly good or confident skier, having only learnt in my late 20’s, but I used to be […]
Easter is meant to be a time for chocolate, new beginnings. I haven’t posted anything since my uber exciting visit to the palace…although a lot has happened since. The elephants have been put on hold for a minute as we […]
I was asked at work the other day to list the best family holidays for single parents. To be honest, I struggle with the whole concept because travelling with children is very hard work in general and compromises have to […]
My children are home. Hooray! With a few more war wounds than when they left. My daughter’s elbow is very badly bruised and clearly very painful. My son not only has a broken tooth (could have been worse – apparently, […]
A text arrived from my ex this afternoon in response to one I’d sent earlier asking how both children were – one with a damaged arm and one with a missing tooth:- “Tooth been glued back on but won’t work […]
I am actually feeling quite sorry for my ex husband as well as my daughter. Not only has he had to spend day 1 of the skiing holiday in the hospital sorting out my daughter’s damaged elbow, he has spent […]
There was something unsettling about my very quiet mornings whilst I was away skiing with other adults and no children. Nobody spoke. I presume that it was because they didn’t need to. It made me feel as if I had […]
My “I’m so pleased to be home and I’m never going to shout at the children again” attitude to life has lasted a pathetically short time. I went away because I felt I needed to do some thinking – away […]