We move house this weekend, and I start a new job next week, so I am home for the week with the joy of packing up all our stuff ready to go. Bleh. Moving house is allegedly one of the most stressful things that can happen in your lifetime, as big as divorce and loss [...]

Ash kinda got shafted, cos when she was in that post toddler stage where kids still have the most amazing minds, but have developed the language to express the crazy things that they think, I had nowhere to keep her stories but in my naturally unreliable, and at the time furthermore hampered by lifestyle, memory. [...]

Connor likes us to sit with him for a while before he goes to sleep. One day he was licking his finger then wiping it on me. I said “Hey stop that, I don’t want your spit on me” “Oh sorry” he says, and lies quietly for a minute or two. “If you do want [...]