“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives”
This week Victoria Beckham shared a gorgeous picture on Instagram of her giving her daughter Harper a kiss. Who could have anticipated the controversy that would arise from such a sweet, innocent picture of affection between a parent and…
“I am a mountain, I am a sea, You can’t take that away from me”
Something strange is happening and I don’t like it. Not one bit. It started a few weeks ago, I noticed that my hair was starting to thin on one side of my head. DEVASTATED. I don’t have much going for…
“How he dresses, I care zero, so long as he don’t steal my drink”
This time last year, Aoife was starting her taster sessions for Reception Class, it was a big bloody deal. She barely seemed old enough, I wasn’t ready for her to leave nursery and I CERTAINLY wasn’t ready for her to…
“No matter what happens in life be good to people…”
No matter where you are in the world, you probably heard the terrible news of the murder of MP Jo Cox. This isn’t to be a political piece, just an airing of my thoughts as I’m still a little shell…
“Happy talk, keep talkin’ happy talk, Talk about things you’d like to do…”
This morning as I caught up with the news I read an article about a trial in York regarding four grown men bullying a teenage colleague because he was Catholic (the trial is today. In the 21st century. Not 100…
“All children, except one, grow up”
Today Aoife is five years, six months and three days old. Today, while she quickly wrote a story before school because we’d forgotten to do her homework (when does that start becoming her fault not ours?), we found her first…
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