I’ve always loved this time of year the most: the smells, the colours, the pleasure of digging out your knitwear and boots. Less so here, as it’s still twenty-three degrees – but you get the idea. It’s always felt like a new leaf turning over, more so than Spring for me. I like the idea […]
I’ve fallen in love with my therapist! It was inevitable (so I’ve been led to believe), but I didn’t expect it to happen quite so quickly. I’ve had one session……. Okay, so I’m not really in love. But you know, I could be. All things considered (all in fact being one thing, and that one thing […]
…….and I can’t believe there’s already Christmas food on sale in Selfridges. August flew by in a flurry of visitors, who came and went in shifts, that allowed me to perform a one day change-over in the manner of a top flight hotel. A top flight hotel that resides in possibly the pissiest street […]
I don’t know how I really feel after the events of the last week. After taking my brother and sister to the airport early this morning, before the hustle and bustle of a regular day in Placa Reial or on las Ramblas began, I took a walk down one of the most famous streets in […]
On the way back from the beach yesterday, after meeting another group of the the other half’s friends, and after hearing that after peace-keeping mission #2 – a night at the theatre – number one announced that she ‘would never accept’ another woman in her father’s life; the penny finally dropped: there was someone in […]
Because apparently, these days it’s not ok to say no to kids, because they ‘get sad’. Well, you know what junior, y’all betta man up, coz that’s the way the world works….. (uum sorry, I don’t know what came over me. Oh wait, yes I do – non-motherness). They say you’re never too old to […]
Walking around Port Aventura on a fortuitous day off, last Tuesday, I was struck by a new found appreciation for my mother’s necessity for coffee breaks every hour on the hour, whenever we went on a trip or day out when I was a kid. Whilst I wholeheartedly wanted to be buffeted around at 1000 […]
My internal thermostat is thoroughly buggered. It’s thirty-three point two degrees outside with seventy-five percent humidity; and five hundred and sixty two and a half thousand degrees inside, with my reproductive organs currently at a gazillion percent humidity. It’s a thing. Don’t even think about questioning me. There is a fire raging somewhere between my […]
Sunshine and heat = kids just want to run around and have fun. And also: I don’t….. My go-to hot weather strategy is to naked starfish in front of a fan, at every available opportunity. I’d probably teach like this, if it was acceptable. But for very obvious reasons, it’s not. Poor students. It does […]
I’ve outsourced my brain to my digital agenda….. How do you Mum’s actually do it? I can’t remember to clean my teeth if it’s not in my diary and I’ve set three different alarms to alert me to the alarm that alerts me to my gob. Everything is in there, from the run of the […]
The Secret Diary of Anne Pank 