The boy's teacher was handing out leaflets yesterday about the local Beaver (junior Scouts) group. While this isn't applicable for his class yet as the lowest age you can join is 6, he seemed excited by the idea so I thought I'd check if things had moved on since I was a young Brownie ( Read more... )

This morning I checked the train times so I could go and pick up the middle kid for the weekend - all normal, 1 train straight there with no delays. Get to the train station and it's a different story.

Bear in mind that during the entirety of this it's cold, windy and chucking it down with rain.

( 10 hours later... )

Dear fellow mother ( Read more... )

I've not had a moan about christmas items being in the shops early this year as I thought other people seemed to have covered that nicely. Instead I shall say this ( Read more... )