A Parent’s Perspective from a Ross High Mum
When they’re babies
Yours are perfect and everyone else’s are horrible.
Childminding is a huge expense, and why isn’t it tax deductible?
They’re smaller than you. You can pick them up. Just as well, really; you need some sort of head start.
They generate so much washing. Sick-covered washing. Lots of tiny baby grows.
Nappies. Yuk. Need I say more?
There [...]
It was the Swimming Club AGM on Monday. And yes, I’ve finally managed to get myself off the committee. We bludgeoned and battered and locked the door. There was no escape. We have a new, EU-style committee. No one wanted to be big chief - no one ever does - so they’re going to take turns, [...]
Mother at Large is becoming a book! As an older mother myself, I’m well impressed. And on that note (the older mother one) I’m contemplating running a sweepstake on the number of people who comment on my grandchildren when the boys come to visit me in hospital this week. Always assuming they come to visit, of [...]
I’ve just dropped by Ollie Bray’s blog and read his post about a family-oriented internet safety training evening that Musselburgh Grammar School held this week. I would have liked to have gone along but there’s been too much going on this week, so here’s hoping Ross High will run a similar evening in the near [...]
Just to continue a theme that seems to have developed over the past few posts. It is simply not fair that your older brother has his birthday six days before yours. Particularly when you’re the one who gets really excited about these things, and you’ve been counting down the days for weeks. Those six days of [...]
“We want a disco” said the older swimmers.
“Come up with a plan and we’ll think about it” replied those of us who could see yet another thing to organise looming. “A proper business plan” said our very sensible coach.
So huddles formed in the cafe for the next week or so - is there a word for a [...]
I’m off into the wilds of Perthshire for a week or so, looking for Slender Naiads - no, not water nymphs but a rare species of plant that grows in some of the freshwater lochs up there. After that, I’m off to Wales, weather and engineers permitting, to dive on the only Welsh maerl bed, conveniently [...]
I’m back! Well, OK, I haven’t in fact been any further than the utility room at the other end of the house, which doubles as a lab and houses my microscopes in a truly microscopic corner. As Andy from Wales remarked, when he called in to collect some of the buckets of pickled seabed I’ve [...]
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