It's March already. MARCH. The year is one-sixth over and today was the first time I managed to try a new recipe. (Clearly, although I am not fool enough to take on the #52recipes challenge this year, I can't quite shake the idea that I should be doing it. It lives on inside my head as… Continue reading And so it continues: 5 things 4.3.19

I'm getting pretty good at conserving my energy, if you understand that to mean assiduously employing the fuckit principle. And just putting my head down and stubbornly plodding away one step at a time on everything I can't say "fuck it" to. I hate having such a long to-do list, and I hate not being… Continue reading Ugh whatEVER: 5 things 25.2.19

Last week was full of surprises. Apparently we might be buying a house? It's not quite signed and sealed yet so I shouldn't really be making any big announcements, but ooh er. It's got masses of space, and it's a short walk from our current place, so that's all that really matters. It is nice,… Continue reading Entering the grownup zone: 5 things 18.2.19

In the burnout zone yet again. I realise this is ridiculous. I can't bounce from one job to the next and claim exhaustion after the first couple of months. But in my defence, (1) I didn't sign on for 80% workload (and in fact it's been 100% for weeks now), and (2) this particular project… Continue reading When work isn’t working: 5 things 11.2.19

Informed by letter last week that the local primary schools are doing away with homework, as a town-wide policy. I did have a big "ooh er" kneejerk reaction, but I'm familiar with all the arguments against homework, and mostly I'm impressed and excited that the schools are so progressive. C has had nothing but great… Continue reading On discipline: 5 things 4.2.19

Actually, not so much One Darn Thing After Another as just Everything At Once, really. Household and work and everything got very intense last week. I am ready for a rest now please thank you (but it's not coming just yet). Armin was in Davos, as happens every January, and it's really quite striking that… Continue reading OTDAA: 5 things 28.1.19

Spending a husband-less week with my kids cannot in any fair world be called "single parenting", because I am well aware that it Does Not Compare even slightly to the extreme strain of actual single parenting. But "solo parenting" is arguably slightly less egregious, and a useful shorthand, so indulge me, okay? I am solo parenting… Continue reading Flying solo: 5 things 21.1.18