Transition and Teenagers
L’s progress continues to be slow. I yell at her to eat more, she yells back telling me I never give her credit. We carry on like this, but there […]
L’s progress continues to be slow. I yell at her to eat more, she yells back telling me I never give her credit. We carry on like this, but there […]
Dear L I haven’t written to you here for a while. Not since you were in hospital and even so, I still don’t know if you’ve read them. But this […]
A long time ago, people believed the cycles of the moon induced madness – giving birth to the word lunatic. The cures for most illnesses were poultices, leeches or just […]
My dad died at the end of 2010. He had been pronounced ‘dying’ so many times. I lost counts of the times I drove the 180 mile journey, tears stinging […]
I am on a train heading to London and smiling ironically as I write this post. Because I am hopeless at getting L to eat. Always have been. At first […]
It is now two weeks since L started sixth form college. She loves the freedom, the atmosphere and although her initial tests aren’t working out as well as she’d like, […]
K is a great one for new words. She routinely scans the internet for interesting words and reads them out to see if we can guess them. One such word […]
I haven’t blogged for ages. Somehow, life kept getting in the way. L and K celebrated their 16th birthdays. K and I ate dinner with C and chatted about all […]