It isn’t every day that you get woken by your nearly 80-year-old father tearfully singing ‘Sunrise Sunset’ from ‘Fiddler on the Roof’. And whilst it was a bit unexpected, and his singing was rather wobbly, it also felt so poignant. After all, it isn’t every day you reach the milestone of your half century birthday,...
I haven’t been posting much lately. I have been doing a lot of thinking. Thinking about choices. Maybe this is what happens when you reach 50, as I did with gratitude, last weekend. In the whirlwind of the day-to-day, and as a parent, daughter, sister, friend, employee and founder, there isn’t often much space to...
Most days, I post about children and how best to support them. However, I very rarely write about my own boys, or about being a parent myself. But last weekend, something big happened in our household: our eldest son became a teenager. The bus covered curtains have been replaced, the boxes of Lego have been...
Written in celebration of International Day of the Girl and the #thislittlegirlisme campaign. This little girl loved making magic potions out of rose petals and pretend tree-houses in the garden, drawing horses, and imagining. She loved animals, and reading for hours snuggled up under a blanket. As she grew a bit bigger, she was entranced...
