The evening has come, gentle reader. If you are a parent reading this, you’ve made it this far. And now a choice awaits you: what to do with that precious time when your wee ones are asleep? (At least, you hope they are. Junior Reader has been back up already, but I left that to …
Category archives: Moments
The summer in numbers
There’s a whole load of counting going on here now. Counting the number of sweets in a packet; grapes in a box. How many sleeps til this, and how many seconds til that. It seems only fair to respond with some numbers of my own. With the beginning of term just upon us, here is …
Missing in action
I am here, honest – it’s just been one of those weeks. Ones where there’s lots occupying the mind as well as the body. Harder to decide what to write about, let alone to engage the mind and fingers to do so. Missing in action – is it a parent thing too? We are so …
What to do when the sun sticks around
We had rain today. Big sheets of rain around lunch time. That was OK for us, we were inside. Early afternoon, while out, there were still shallow puddles to splash in. And the sun was coming out again. We set out with cardigans; by the time we got to the park, mid afternoon, we ditched …
Making: new uses for treasured T-shirts
We were on holiday, and Junior Reader noticed a problem. Come another summer or two, and a beloved T-shirt would cease to fit. Now we’re OK on this in a few different ways: – Junior Reader doesn’t grow terribly fast (so far), so the T-shirt still has some life in it yet – we’re pretty …