by Rebecca | May 15, 2020 | Life and Family
Last time, I wrote about how sadly I’ve watched our younger one struggle with lockdown, and how his behaviour has regressed back to the emotion-driven reactions of his preschool years (click here if you missed it). But this week, I’ve discovered an unexpected benefit...
by Rebecca | May 1, 2020 | Life and Family, School
A very curious thing has happened to our six year old over the last six weeks. It happened pretty rapidly, and it’s stayed with us as we’ve forged deeper into our lockdown life: he’s started behaving the way he did when he was four. The Threenager and Ferocious...
by Rebecca | Apr 24, 2020 | Life and Family
Can’t see friends and family, can’t visit the glorious places around us, shopping in M&S is frankly weird now, and the Easter holidays were a write-off compared with what we had planned. These things are tough, but I’m living with them. In fact, there is a lot...
by Rebecca | Apr 10, 2020 | Life and Family
We’ve had our little pup Bertie for three weeks now, and we’ve had so much fun with him – as well as taking dozens of photos! Here are some things we’ve learned about Bertie in the last three weeks, with lots of cutiful puppy pics to go along...
by Rebecca | Apr 3, 2020 | Life and Family
When I was a somewhat sheltered teenager in the mid-90s, one of the most subversive things I could find to do was to watch Shooting Stars. To my parents (devoted fans of the Two Ronnies, Morecambe and Wise and their ilk), the chaotic and “alternative”...
by Rebecca | Mar 27, 2020 | Life and Family, School
I can barely believe it’s only been a week since the schools shut down. So many more crazy things have happened since then – the country’s in lockdown, there’s a huge field hospital in development in London, and Bertie the pup has nearly...
