While sitting at the dinner table this evening our youngest daughter came up with best excuse I’ve ever heard for why she couldn’t help her sisters with something: “I’ve got busy plans” It’s perhaps worth pointing out that she goes to a special school – and that while she may not communicate quite as correctly […]

Rain has been falling all morning. A steady stream of relentless rain. The kind of rain that slowly washes everything away without anybody noticing. After having a shower and pulling on some clean clothes I wandered into the lounge and met my other half – curled up on the end of the sofa with her […]

Somehow we’re all in bed several hours earlier than usual. Everybody else is sound asleep. I’m sitting in bed, laptop propped on my lap, tapping quietly away at the keys while listening to nice tunes in my ears. I can only see the keys via light cast from the screen. Thankfully I’m pretty good at […]