November 10, 2019
My daughter has been having relationship problems recently culminating in a painful breakup which isn’t quite a breakup. “I think he’s afraid of getting hurt somewhere down the line, so he’s trying to minimise it by breaking up now” she says. I’ve heard many similar excuses for bewildering behaviour in the name of progress but […]
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November 3, 2019
I’m in London to have my eye checked and early for my appointment deliberately so that I have time to take the walk along the Thames between Embankment and Borough Market, buy coffee and cheese, then walk back along the river to Westminster. It’s half term and there are countless parents pointing out landmarks to […]
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October 27, 2019
I’d begun to wonder whether there would be any chance of cutting the grass again before Spring, so relentless has the rainy weather been this week. Then it stopped and the wind came blowing through to dry the ground briefly, just long enough that I could tidy the garden and harvest the three remaining pumpkins. […]
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October 20, 2019
When I was a kid I was, for a time, a member of the Young Ornithologists Club, essentially a birdwatching society for children who got bullied in the playground. Recalling it during a conversation with my sister I tell her, “I used to go to meetings run by a woman called Mrs. Bird (true) on […]
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October 13, 2019
A couple of weeks ago I took my daughter for some blood tests and, on the journey, we were discussing how the last time I had taken her for some she’d had a complete meltdown in the waiting room and then again when she’d got in to see the nurse. Consequently, she does everything she […]
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