Category: Monthly Musing

“I don’t need my coat,” small daughter assured me, “I’m not cold.” It was early in the morning, there was frost on the ground and she was on her way to school. Of course,...

A friend and her family have recently been looking after some gerbils for her son’s friend.  Gerbils are busy little creatures, always ripping up cardboard, racing up and down the ladders in their cage...

Every year on this day, I find myself singing the children’s song “Oh, the big ship sails on the alley alley oh” because the final line of each verse is “on the last day...

I’ve just spent the last two days in the company of a friend whom I haven’t seen nearly enough of in the last couple of years. We have talked non-stop, mixing current topics of...

Small daughter finishes at her primary school today.  We’ve had a week of parties, performances, assemblies and tonight there’s a prom – they’re certainly going out with a bang!  After today, my connection with...

It’s an exciting time in our household as the General Election approaches. This will be the first one that big daughter is old enough to vote in and she’s determined to have her say....