Teens

It’s no secret that I am fascinated by language. While at college, a wonderful Professor of Italian had spotted the quiet girl at the back of the class, with her head buried in a poetry book, a... Read More

February half term loomed and only my son and I were free to go on holiday and I was too busy to book one.  My son, however, enjoyed the agency of directing our family holiday.   ... Read More

…are none you may say? I may have triggered a knee-jerk response into how childhoods were ‘so much better in our day’ and social media has led to low attention span, superficiality... Read More

It’s one of those watershed moments: our firstborn is starting secondary school in September, she’s just got a phone and she's starting to go out and about on her own. Keen to encoura... Read More