(You thought I’d forgotten, didn’t you?)
“Midnight? Midnight? It’s Christmas Eve for goodness sake.” It was just as well it wasn’t me on the phone to the AA as it was at this point I suffered a sense of humour blackout. “There are a lot of people having a far worse Christmas than this” I kept [...]
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How to spend Christmas Eve. 2nd instalment
Published March 1st, 2010 in Boys, Cars, Celebrations, Children, Family, Holidays, Travel and teenagers. 0 CommentsThe refined art of bribery
Published December 4th, 2009 in Boys, Children, Highers and teenagers. 10 CommentsThis morning, at 9am, I found myself online with my finger hovering over the Buy This Instant button as T in the Park tickets came on sale. Apparently I agreed to buy GP1 a ticket in return for his fantastic exam results this year. That must have been during one of my more maternal “Let’s be positive [...]
Eighteen and a half hours
Published November 18th, 2009 in Boys, Celebrations, Children and teenagers. 3 CommentsThings were easy when the boys were small. Birthday parties maybe involved booking the swimming pool or local bouncy castle for an hour or so, a few sandwiches and crispie cakes, grapes for the health conscious and a party bag or two. We went through taking a few friends to the pictures and then it [...]
Home again, home again, jiggety-jig
Published October 19th, 2009 in Boys, Diving, Family, Marine biology, Out & about, Wales, Working at home and teenagers. 2 Comments“It hasn’t stopped raining for two days! I haven’t been able to get any washing out” GP1 said.
Head snaps round. Eyes swivel left. Is that my son talking? The one who had six wet towels on his bedroom floor the last time I arrived home from fieldwork? Well, I have to confess it was those six [...]
Neglect, n.
Published August 26th, 2009 in Blogging, Boys, Diving, Family, Friends, Health, Highers, Housekeeping, NHS, School, Scotland, Standard Grades, Travel, Wales, Working at home and teenagers. 8 CommentsNeglect. As in My blog has fallen into a state of neglect. I haven’t written anything. It has accumulated spam comments (now deleted, I hope). There are real comments, including some from Reluctant Memsahib, one of my favourite reads, and I haven’t responded. I’ve been busy. I’ve been away. I have lots of excuses. I [...]
Three weeks and counting…
Nag, nag, nag, nag, nag, nag
GPM: “That’s 3 weeks. THREE weeks. Well OK 23 days and a few hours until Higher English. You won’t be able to put it off any longer then.”
GP1: “I kno-o-ow.”
Nag. Nag, nag, nag, nag.
“So have you learned that poem? Read that book? Written out those quotes?”
“I’ll do it tomorrow. [...]
Life and times of a teenager
Published March 23rd, 2009 in Boys, Children, Highers, School and teenagers. 7 CommentsNo. 37 Homage to Tracy Emin
Alternatively known as
No. 49. The horizontal filing cabinet
or
No. 51. Revision?
I warned him it would be blog fodder.
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