Category: Monthly Musing

A recent train journey to London coincided with World Mental Health Day, which I knew nothing about until the train manager announced that every drink bought at the buffet car would be matched by...

I’ve got a spare few minutes and I’m scrolling through Instagram on my phone. Every other post is an advert, the current theme of which seem to be about “finding my niche”, “my purpose”...

I’m watching the house martins on the electricity wires by our house. They visit every year, at first just one or two, and by the end of the summer there is a whole flock...

There’s nothing like a funeral to bring a bit of perspective to life, is there? One day you’re grumbling about the heat and whether small daughter is going to any tidying up at all...

I’ve been going to a new yoga class with big daughter. It’s run by one of the teachers whom big daughter has got to know through her university yoga society, and having been to...

“This is how I have heard what you’ve just said, did you mean it to sound like that?” One of the conversations that we have had more than once with both our girls as...