A Letter from Home

On Tuesday mornings I teach two classes of year 3 recorders - back-to-back - watch the clock, pace the lesson just right, dislodge my memory...

I wanted to have a bath yesterday morning but changed my mind as a humungous spider was lurking in a fine mesh of cobwebs dangling from the ...

Where did the last couple of weeks of August go? Who stole them? Term officially started last week, on Wednesday, but I only went into one...

I sort of managed to keep going with the Make-something-every-day challenge whiile we were away in the holiday cottage. I can't rememb...

Back when we were first married we had a food budget of £10 per week. If I go back to my old diaries of the time, I can see exactly what I...

We're back after a week away in a Landmark Trust holiday cottage just inside Wales. It's a delightful cottage, in the middle of a ...