We are just back from a short trip to Sorrento in the ankle of Italy and, well, it wasn’t terrible, but it was a lot of work for a holiday…
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It’s Stomach Bug Day, that popular festival aimed at families that comes around several times a year (unannounced). It’s a bit like Michael McIntyre’s Midnight Game Show but with vomit…
To be a serious professional these days, you have to check LinkedIn at least twice an hour. Every good blog post starts with a fact, and that’s mine. Usually you…
The house hunt is slowly starting up again. I’ve gone back to my big schools spreadsheet with two key improvements – adding Croydon as an additional borough, because a friend…
Since having children, I reckon I’ve spent the night away from them four times. Twice because I had to go into hospital – one of those felt like a bit…
The boys have continued their tag-teaming efforts to keep us up at night: when it’s not one of them screaming his head off it’s the other. I can’t remember when…
Some funny conversations with the 3-year-old: He: Äiti, I have a game for you!Me: Oh really, what is it?He: I don’t know. It might be a clock? Cal: Okay, it’s…
I watched and enjoyed Vardy v Rooney, a dramatisation of the Wagatha Christie trial that took place last year. It seems very likely to me that Rebekah Vardy had been…
I’ve devised a framework for deciding whether to give up on a book. It’s designed for me and my particular reading issues, but it might be universally applicable. I’m very…
One recent epiphany I had while mulling over where my time goes was that I could do more with my mornings. I was staying up late, not doing anything particularly…