18 Sep Murder Over Zoom
Murder on Zoom: How the idea of witnessing a killing over video chat became suddenly very relevant. ...
29 Nov The Alternative Elf on the Shelf Cheat Sheet – for parents who don’t have time for that ****
Today I read what looked to be an encouraging cheat sheet for anyone wanting to do the whole rigmarole this year, and I figured I'd take a look. I've done a few elf things in the past to amuse (mostly myself but...
14 Jul On Failure
There’s this thing that a lot of people do where they talk only about the good times. It’s not everyone – I definitely know people who focus on the negatives and make you worry that their world is falling apart when it...
21 Nov What’s Currently Making my 7-Year-Old Lose It
Massive strops and tearful meltdowns are a feature of parenting. And the kids have them sometimes, too. I've previously posted about what made my nerdy boy have a meltdown aged 4 and aged 5. Some of those still stand. But man, are the things...
06 Mar Going into it with my eyes open turned out to be little defence: Dealing with an abusive partner
At one stage of my life, I was in an abusive relationship. This is something that some people know, and some people knew at the time. There were a lot of people who tried, in all sorts of ways, to persuade me...
02 Jan Just One Thing… An Advent Calendar of Bedtime Procrastination
R and I have a bit of a ritual, developed over the last couple of years. It’s all a typical bedtime routine, with some jumping on the bed; some failing to get into pyjamas; some sudden request for food or drink; some...
29 Jun 26 Things Which are Not OK Even Now We’ve Voted for Brexit
I'm pretty sure all of this will not apply to 99% of the people reading. And I'm sure that most of you are going to be in agreement. But even if it's for that 1%, or just to reaffirm what is and isn't ok (since...
18 Jun The Thirty Things Guaranteed to Cause a Five-Year-Old Melt-Down
The Thirty-Nine Things Guaranteed to Cause a Four-Year-Old Meltdown a few days ago (and by the way, it’s sad how often I do this. Mostly to think “Hey, I was funny!”...
16 Jun How Not to be a Pushy Cambridge Mummy
As is probably obvious to those of you who've read a few of my parenting posts, the best way of summing up my "style" is probably "Making it up as I go along." And I'm going to make the basic assumption that...
08 Jan Fifteen TV Programmes that are Hugely Improved by Adding Words
I'm not sure this is really a blog post. It all started as a game to while away a long car journey. I think there was something that I thought would be better if it could be "To the death" and then I...