Well, my boy, this is it.  Our last year together before everything changes and you start school.  Our last year of heading out on a Thursday for a lazy breakfast or chilling in our PJ’s until we can be bothered to get dressed.  In just a few weeks we will be going together to look around the school we hope you will be attending next September, the school where you will begin your own journey, away from me. Whilst a lot of the next few months will be about preparing you for that next big step, there will also be…

There’s no denying that kids love a phone, especially yours.  You can’t fool them, they’re not interested in any of that plastic tat, they want the real deal.  So you give in, you want to eat your pub dinner in peace and a shiny iPhone is as effective as a dummy was in those early days.  It may even give you time for a second bottle glass of wine. You weigh it up in your mind, is the drink in peace worth the following: 1.  You will have 53 photos in a row that look like this. 2.  Your favourite app…

No Regrets. I’ve always lived my life with this as a bit of a mantra.  I’ve believed that every decision you make helps to build you into the person you are and for that reason you should never regret the choices you make.  That’s not to say that given my time again I wouldn’t have done a few things differently.  I probably wouldn’t have thought it was a good idea to take a pair of scissors to my own fringe in primary school or drink a bottle of MD20/20 and then go bowling (it was messy, that’s all I’m going…

One of the by-products of the past few months is that I have been spending a lot more time at home.  And a lot more time with O.  Whilst I wished the circumstances had been different I cannot help but feel grateful for the extra time that it has given me with my son. Parenting is constantly changing.  Everytime you think you’ve cracked it they change, they grow and it sometimes feels like you are back to square one.  O seems to be growing up so quickly at the minute and it was lovely to have a few weeks to…