October 6, 2019
I’ve been getting into a lot of arguments recently on both Twitter and the comments threads of blogs I follow. This week some random woman was trying to argue that it’s impossible to compare the Hong Kong protests with Greta Thunberg’s trip to the US on board a boat. Her premise seemed to be that, […]
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September 29, 2019
When I’m out with my sister walking the dogs our conversation invariably turns to childhood. This week, for reasons I can’t recall, we were talking about desserts. “I don’t remember mum making many desserts,” I said. “Apart from the chocolate sponge with chocolate sauce.” My sister was incredulous and proceeded to spend the majority of […]
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September 22, 2019
My daughter is sharing with me her reading list for university and bemoaning the cost of the textbooks in the way that one would if one were actually having to pay for them. I tell her about how I remember my own study books being astronomically expensive but how I really loved buying them all […]
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September 15, 2019
I’m driving my daughter to Canterbury for her first Fresher’s event. She’s doing her makeup in the passenger seat and I’m wondering why I agreed to collect her again later when the club ends, at 2 am tomorrow morning. “How are you feeling?” I ask “I’m fine. I’m a bit..” “Trepidatious?” I offer. She grunts […]
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September 8, 2019
My daughter has just been away on holiday with her boyfriend on the beautiful Welsh coast. She arrived home with a bag full of enthusiasm and strangely flavoured rock. Last night she was home for dinner and it felt like an age since I’d seen her. “You must miss her. She was always in your […]
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