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 | Mar 29, 2019 | Life and Family
My first job was in 1992. I was 14, and became a waitress in a family-run restaurant in a little North Yorkshire market town. My trial week earned me £1.50 an hour, which rose to £2 an hour once I’d made the grade. I did this every Saturday and most holidays until I...
by Rebecca | Mar 22, 2019 | Life and Family
This week I wanted to write about the one topic that’s really gripping the nation this week. Obviously that’s season 2 of Derry Girls. When I say nation, I mainly mean lots of people my age, who look back on the 90s as that blessed time of Britpop, Father Ted and...
by Rebecca | Feb 22, 2019 | Life and Family
Last year, I wrote about the five things I’d learned from working from home over half term. I’ve compared this year to that, to see whether I’ve actually remembered any of my lessons and acted on them. (Thinking about it, I probably should have done that before the...
by Rebecca | Feb 15, 2019 | Life and Family
The little one (LO) needed to have a blood test. We’ve known about this for a few months, and the appointment came through for this week. In an ideal world, this is how that first conversation would have gone: Me: So, you need to have a blood test, darling. The...
