by Rebecca | May 28, 2021 | Life and Family, School
The kids are exhausted – when they’re one small squabble away from a meltdown, I know it must be nearly the end of another half term. But this one’s been different. There was so much to grieve a year ago (my post at the time is here: Feeling the Grief for what...
by Rebecca | May 7, 2021 | Life and Family
I confess I was astonished that they’d got to my age group already, but our NHS have worked miracles with this vaccine programme. They announced 42s and over on the Tuesday, and we were booked in for our first Astra Zeneca experience by the Friday morning. With a bank...
by Rebecca | Apr 23, 2021 | Life and Family, Re: Writing
William Shakespeare died on this very day in 1616, 505 years ago – and because his baptism record states 26 April, many have assumed that 23 April could have been the day he was born, too. And this suits those with a patriotic bent as well, because it’s also St...
by Rebecca | Mar 26, 2021 | Life and Family
This week marked a year since the official start of the UK’s lockdown, when we and whole swathes of the human population around the world were asked to stay in our homes. It would have been a totally unbelievable concept, just a few short months before – everyone,...
by Rebecca | Mar 5, 2021 | Life and Family, School
It’s been a journey, but after eight whole weeks of helping my children to learn at home, I’ve come away with a few new skills myself. In summary, they can be described as: Mulitasking is hard and I’m still not sure I can do it Snacks are king and can be used to...
by Rebecca | Feb 26, 2021 | Life and Family, School
I’m not sure I know how to feel about it all, to be honest – it’s a complex business. I do know a few things – I know that come 8 March, I will have six hours a day to do everything that I’ve been squashing into two, and that I will be MUCH less...
