A tribute to a curly haired girl
Twenty years ago today, a dear friend of mine was killed on our roads, together with her mother. I was 15 years old, and on that day, as the news reached us, my...
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Back at the bottom of the heap
Isn’t life funny? Just when you think you’ve made it and you’ve got it all figured out, everything changes. That’s never more obvious than when...
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Blink and he’s a schoolboy
Five minutes ago, or so it seems, we brought a baby home from the hospital. I remember the queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach as we walked out of the hospital...
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One down, 19 to go
Two days shy of 17 months old, we have our first tooth. Not a front tooth of course, that would be too easy. A top back tooth. Since the day she was born, I’ve...
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Night weaning a boob addict…with a bottle
Back in July, I decided it was time to day wean my daughter. I had stopped expressing at work a couple of months before that when she was 13 months old, but I still...
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