FAST, FURIOUS and FEMINIST AT 50
My Porsche Driving Experience My dad trying out the porsche I’ve decided that part of embracing change entails embracing my mid-life crisis, and thus I find myself co-owner of a rather fabulously loud and attractive Porsche Boxster S (the co-owner says the ‘S’ is important!) I am pretty happy to join the exlusive club of Porsche Drivers […]
Tiger Mum or Alley Cat?
Tiger Parent or Alley Cat? I was having an on-line catch up with a teacher friend the other evening and asked her what her holiday plans were. She explained that they weren’t going away as her daughter was revising for her IGCSEs, so it made sense to stay home. I know for myself the pressures […]
Goodbyes as an Art Form
Saying Goodbye Nowadays I seem to spend half of my life saying goodbyes, either to friends and family in Bangkok and Broughton, or witnessing others say goodbye at train stations and airports. In fact I’m starting to feel like I am living that scene in the credits at the end of Love Actually, an array […]
Small Kindnesses
Small Kindnesses This week I’ve been on the receiving end of loads of small kindnesses. My lovely mum found me an umbrella for me to take shopping as it looked like rain. She reminded me to mind the step as she does every time I leave the house, knowing that I’m a clumsy oaf and […]
Mums (and Dads) and Maths’ Anxiety
Helping Children with Maths Anxiety I was listening to Jenni Murray exploring Maths’ anxiety in a parenting podcast yesterday on Woman’s hour along with Lucy Rycroft-Smith, a research officer at Cambridge University’s Faculty of Education and its centre for Neuroscience. It was stated that on the podcast one in ten students between 8 and 13 years old […]
Emotional? Me? Not Likely.
Last Day of School I’ve just returned home from dropping my youngest daughter, Betsy, and husband off at school. I only went so that I could borrow the car; it was nothing to do with it being Betsy’s last official day in Year 13. I definitely didn’t take them because I wanted to see her […]