Category: Monthly Musing

Monthly Musing – February 2019 – Weather warnings

I was watching the weather report on TV last night and apparently this February is the warmest on record for the UK – quite a difference from last year when the “Beast from the...

Monthly Musing – January 2019 – Pause for thought

Big daughter has left one of her text books on the table. It’s a book about yoga for teenagers and she’s been reading it as reference for a university essay she’s writing about reducing...

Monthly Musing – December 2018 – Remembering Christmas

I am walking with the dog to the post box to re-post a Christmas card that was wrongly delivered to us.  It’s dark, it’s raining, I’ve forgotten my mittens and my hands are freezing. ...

Monthly Musing – November 2018 – Back to nature

“What’s this leaf, Mum?” Small daughter and I were walking the dog and she’d picked a large leaf blown down by the Autumn winds. Because I’ve spent years as a parent answering questions, it...

Monthly Musing – October 2018 – Independence

“Bye Mum, you can go now!” Small daughter was going out for the day with her Girl Guide unit and having dropped her off at the railway station to meet the rest of the...

Monthly Musing – July 2018 – Good enough

Do you ever have those times when you realise that you’ve not done something that you intended to do, feeling your stomach sink in that moment of “Uh oh, how do I fix that?”...