Behind The Child

As tLP went back to school and prepared herself for the Big Event yesterday, Miss Mog had her own excitement. A r...

The good news is, the new protective cover for my phone has been shipped and will be here any day this week. The bad news is this. ...

 It wasn't great news back in early summer, when the very nice man from the gas company offered to do a free ...

There's something about Autumn which brings out the dormant domesticity in me. After a summer of shoving stuff here and there and settli...

We're off to Florida for half term. Very exciting. We booked the holiday in the Spring, paid up, and then had the momentary panic in cas...

Claire says "A 7 year old asked me "Why are all the children on Mr Tumble sick?" I wasn't really sure what to say but sai...

Summertime means camping time, and an unfortunate run of dates means we're going to be camping for nearly three weeks straig...

 What possible reason could so many people have to be up and on the streets at 7AM on a school morning?  Police out in force. Ignore th...

 So it's a wet day, day four of a wet bank holiday and half term. We're Jubilee'd out, we're definitely flagging. Only one t...

    The sun came out, and we felt the need to commemorate the event. Sadly, it looks as though the...

We've booked a holiday. Not for six months or so, but come October half term, we'll be jetting off to Florida. It will, I think, be ...

We interrupt this unprecedented blog silence to bring you all the exciting news that this is officially a Very Good Day. Driving past church...

Monday: back to hospital for another wound review: satisfactory progress and discharged for a fortnight. All signed off as fit for school. M...

Shortly before Christmas, I had a long day off. Mum and I leapt into my bus, and zoomed off to IKEA - more square boxes to slot under the gi...

Because things aren't all grim here, and we do actually have quite a nice jolly time most of the time, A missed photo opportunity - Grol...

I've been trying to get a video uploaded for the past couple of days, but Blogger isn't working. So, here's the still version in...

I wrote this a few years ago, a friend asked me to find it and so I'm posting it here so I don't lose it again. I got up this mornin...