Taking the bus to Folkestone, Dave Clark and I are on the top deck in the front seats with a big bag of dark red cherries to share. We see if we can spit the stones up and out of the small window, open just a few inches to let in the dusty summer air. […]
How To Explore The World
There’s a guy I see most mornings on my walk to work. He is always standing at the rear of his car outside the nursery smoking a cigarette while his tiny daughter sits alone on the back seat. He stares into space dragging on his cigarette while she waits patiently to be unstrapped and taken […]
How To Avoid Upsetting People
I’m having lunch with my daughter. I am eating the leftovers from Monday and she is in the kitchen making herself something. She calls from the kitchen, “I don’t know how I’m going to eat this without it falling apart”. Moments later she emerges with an impressive looking falafel and hummus wrap. “I’m having a […]
Why I’m Scared That My Children Are Growing Up
My daughter is eighteen today and so, essentially, I now have two adults rather than two children. Aside from the pride I can feel in having managed to get them this far in their lives I am worried about their diminishing need for me because parenting is probably the role I’ve been most comfortable playing […]
How To Talk To Your Children
I’m waiting in the car for my daughter who said she wanted to leave at 9.45. She knows I am never late. Sitting with the engine turning over I stare at the door willing it to open even though there isn’t anywhere I have to be this morning. She emerges with a plastic takeaway tray […]
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