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I'm just back from a few days in Spain with my family. I felt bad about flying, even though I haven't flown since I went to Portugal in 2015. I will try not to fly again for at least a year, maybe longer. I haven't signed up for the #flightfree2020 pledge but I am thinking… Continue reading Mid-September Notes
I originally wrote this post four years ago, the day before my oldest child took her first public exams. That same child is now in her second year at university and the second one is about to leave for university in September. I thought I'd share the post again as it's GCSE Results Day here… Continue reading The Day before GCSE Results Day
This Christmas has mostly been about recovering from minor arthroscopic surgery to correct a torn meniscus in my left knee. My stitches came out on 19 December and I had hoped to do a lot of writing because, coincidentally, my husband and two grown-up children have been visiting a close family friend in Australia for… Continue reading Christmas Retreat
I was about to tweet a happy tweet and post a happy post about my happy year, when our washing machine broke down and our boiler stopped working. It was eerily uncanny, as if the Fairy who stops you feeling too smug had flown into my house and sprinkled some of her glum magic over… Continue reading New Year’s Eve Musings
A flurry of exam results, celebrations, book-buying, bag-packing, car-loading, kisses and hugs, and our daughter, Kitty, is now settled into her university accommodation. Overnight, the average age of our household has gone up. The numbers of showers being taken and apples being eaten have gone down. There is less fruit tea being drunk and less… Continue reading Notes from a half-empty nest
