On being brilliant.
"This is my granddaughter," my grandfather told him, "and she's brilliant!" "That's nice," I thought, my brain flicking to an ad about...
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Just a mum, sharing stories.
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Just a mum, sharing stories.
Teacher and mum of three Sarah shares reflections and stories of mumlife and raising boys.
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On having no regrets.Â
"No regrets" sang Robbie Williams. "Funny," I thought, singing along to the CD, "I have plenty of them." Unwise impulsive choices and...
On leaving speeches.
I'm coming to the end of my third teaching job, and weirdly starting to get excited about the leaving speech. For French A-level, we...
On linguistic independence.
I’m a Northerner living in the South, and I find accents really interesting. When I first moved to Cambridge, I was living in a college...
On Statements and Stabilising.
On Monday 15th April, I sat down at the teacher's desk in my new classroom at my new school to log on to a school computer for the first...
On pets.
We recently visited a friend whose home was full of animals. No exaggeration. Five tortoises, six cats, dogs, rabbits, fish, frogspawn......
On limitations.
I'm writing this in bed, sipping tepid drinks through a straw and trying to keep my head still, following a wisdom tooth extraction...
On libraries, sex and passion.
Matilda-like, I spent a good deal of a fairly solitary childhood visiting the local library, which is probably why I ended up with my...
On stars in descent.
To dye or not to dye? That’s the question I ask myself as I stare at the bottle of ‘L’Oreal’ brown hair dye on the bathroom shelf, then...
On community and Mumsnet.
Thus began last night’s church meeting. We’re a funny motley bunch of different nationalities and ages and stages, meeting in a nursery...
On things lost and found.
It is not surprising given that I am someone who is often dashing off to the next thing, that sometimes things get lost along the way....
On routine joy.
I’ve gone back to ballet! After a gap of a decade, it’s mostly all still there in the muscle memory, which is quite nice and reassuring....
On yes and no.
Tonight was pretty exciting for me - I got interviewed for an event at church. I was more anxious than you might expect for an extrovert...
On fainting.
I remember the first time I fainted. I felt inordinately proud of myself afterwards, like I had fulfilled a childhood fantasy of being...
On freedom and churches.
Yesterday at church, we learned about and prayed for persecuted believers around the world, as part of IDOP (the International Day of...
On things I haven't done.
We’re coming to the end of a lovely half-term, just back from visiting my mum for a few days. One son was a bit sad because he missed out...
On tiredness.
It’s half term and I was ready for it. I’m tired. Tired like I’m trying to do a full time job but also leave school when the children do...
On open evenings.
Open evenings. Let’s be honest, probably not the highlight of the school teacher’s year. Let’s stay really late at school, showcasing all...
On mis-matches.
There’s a meme going round at the moment: Yep - I can relate. As proven by the fact that as normal, I am writing this one evening whilst...
On hot houses.
At school this week my eldest got to design and build (out of cardboard) his dream house. He really went to town, and created something...
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