Whenever I stay with my mother I end up drinking a lot more coffee than I do at home, as she is an enabler. Travelling yesterday, I didn’t have much…
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The seven stages of grief apply to moving abroad as well as loss – and it is a loss of home and context. I’ve generally hit a plateau of ‘acceptance’…
One of the lightbulb-moment ideas I’ve saved in my Evernote is ‘A directory of information I might need in the future’. I apparently recorded this in the autumn after finishing…
A little while ago I poured some feelings of resentment and generalised anger about having small children on an unsuspecting friend. Now that friend has sent me a new book:…
There must be a good bunch of people actively manifesting heatwaves in London, because we’re getting another one this week. This time we’re staying on the right side of 40°C,…
I’ve expanded my set of schools to two other boroughs and devised a methodology to tease out the exam performance data that matters to the parent of a non-disadvantaged (NON-DA)…
We went on a family outing to Canary Wharf on the weekend, to check out The Docklands Museum. It ranks in the Top 3 of Worst Family Outings ever. A…
This summer we’re doing split family holidays – the toddler gets a holiday to ancestral lands with each parent and the baby gets no holidays. It’s just the tip of…
I got a new phone recently and in the process my podcast app got out of sync. It keeps feeding me episodes from March and April that I’ve already heard,…