by Rebecca | May 31, 2019 | Life and Family
I love Britain’s Got Talent. We’ve watched it from the start, managing to ignore Piers Morgan for the most part, and even sticking with it through the tricky Hasselhof years. I feel it has become much less spontaneous and more staged over the years –...
by Rebecca | May 24, 2019 | Life and Family, Re: Writing
Films or TV programmes that are based on book originals – do you prefer reading them, or watching them? You can probably guess which side of the fence I come down on here. The relationship you have with a book is completely different to one you have with a film. Films...
by Rebecca | May 17, 2019 | Life and Family
Last year, I blogged about my anxiety. It’s mild compared to many, but it’s there. It’s the anxious passenger I carry with me wherever I go, and whatever I’m doing. A lot of the time it keeps quiet, but sometimes it gets noisy, and sometimes it can be downright...
by Rebecca | May 10, 2019 | School
Last year, our little boy was 6 years old, and in Year 2. Nobody told him he was doing SATs, but he knew something was up – here’s the account of what was happening then: SATs: this is what they’re doing to our 6-year-old. When I shared that post,...
by Rebecca | Apr 26, 2019 | Re: Writing
I was delighted to get some proofreading work my way this week. It’s one of my favourite jobs. The writing is all there, the words and voice are already the customer’s own, and all I have to do is buff it up, and make it the most beautiful version it can be. If...
