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Let's talk about bullying
When I was in the Police I was asked to give assemblies at the schools I was the SPOC (single point of contact) on a number of things,...
Life through songs
We're surrounded by music. Everywher we go there is music. I walk into my kitchen and Big Welsh has the radio on, Laree has a music...
Getting organised : in the freezer
I don't profess to be a domestic goddess or an all the time highly efficient housekeeper but I do try new ideas to see if they will work....
Getting organised : under the sink
You know when you can't find what you are looking for and you know it is there because you have jammed it in there? That's how it was...
Quietly does it
My eldest does everything quietly. No fuss, no nonsense, no fanfare. It must be hard for her being the quietest in a houseful of...
Arriving safely
Yesterday afternoon I had a call from a friend saying that there had been an RTC by the train station, someone had gone under a lorry,...
Mme Cholet, Clare de la loon
Ten years. Seems like a thousand years. I met this crazy loon called Clare at the end of the Autumn term in 2005, we hit it off. Loops...
When I was your age, revisited
The girls have all got back into their routine but it's all change as one has a job, one is starting her GCSE years and one is in her...
Plants and pompoms
I'm notoriously bad with houseplants, I have every good intention but then I just forget and they end up looking like a bad case of "when...
Another new term, again
I worked out this morning that since 2003 I have done back to school / new term 89 times, by the time Laree finishes school I wil have...
