Remember this form about which I ranted at some length? Remember that we put D down as the first person for the school to contact in an emergency?

Today PB was ill and had to be collected from school. Whom did they ring first? Me.

Luckily, because I am a crap parent, I had gone to a meeting not taking my mobile phone with me, so I didn't get it. So ( Read more... )

Things that have recently made me feel competent, empowered and like A Good Feminist:

• Doing the lion's (and the tiger's and the giraffe's) share of the driving back from Pembrokeshire today. Especially since I felt the fear and did anyway some motorway driving. I am scared of motorway driving, specifically the business about having to be aware of ( Read more... )

of my new haircut, today LB was given one of those first books for babies.  It's black and white, since babies see black and white more clearly than colours, and contains just three images, all of them faces, since babies generally  like to look at faces best of all.  There's a face with short hair, captioned 'Daddy', a face with long hair, ( Read more... )