If this is how we mean to go on, 2016, I’m going to have to have stern words. Actually, stern words didn’t seem to work with Connor on January 4th as he climbed out of a school window to avoid the headmistress on the other side of the door, and ran out of the school … Continue reading It’s been a mixed* start to the New Year
Author: Janet Fernihough
10 steps to entrepreneurial success in Uganda!
It sounds like one of those dreadful self-help books doesn’t it? As it turns out, I have helped myself a great deal with my 10 steps, but that’s not the point. This post is a brief story recounting my 10 steps with the Grow Movement as a volunteer consultant for Uganda600 and the point was to … Continue reading 10 steps to entrepreneurial success in Uganda!
iChina and why 30 million boys ARE wrong
Today's much delayed addition to my blog comes to you as a result of a trip abroad WITHOUT KIDS. So, no parenting tips or woes this time, instead I raise my tea cup to you all (fingers fanned, ceremoniously, like a peacock) and say "nihao" from China. Why China I hear you ask? Well, as the theme for the 20th wedding … Continue reading iChina and why 30 million boys ARE wrong
No. 1 for school holiday childcare in the UK: professional camp, or the guy fishing in the canal?
So, my dear reader I must apologise for leaving such a long gap between blogs, but I have been a full time parent for a while, as in all day every day, as a result of my charming son being permanently excluded from a less than super holiday camp. Within 5 days of attending this … Continue reading No. 1 for school holiday childcare in the UK: professional camp, or the guy fishing in the canal?
“Mimi, I’ve sucked up a Spiderman glove”
This is a good thing. An excellent thing. This means my charming youngest son is not hitting someone, pinching someone, or killing a tree with a big stick. That’s been the catalogue of events last week, but a Spiderman glove sucked into the inside of a Miele cat and dog vacuum cleaner? Walk in the park…………… … Continue reading “Mimi, I’ve sucked up a Spiderman glove”
Farewell job centre
I recently received a charming letter from the lovely people at the department of works and pensions. You can tell its from them as soon as something that looks like brown toilet paper lands on your doorstep. It’s that or her majesty’s revenue and customs requesting money for tax and I haven’t made any money … Continue reading Farewell job centre
Compliments on my parenting skills, from two police officers
Well, if I was going to meet our local police as a result of one of our children's actions, I always thought it would be the smallest son with ADHD after he had set light to something like a residential block of accommodation, as a teenager. I did not anticipate the eldest daughter calling the police after … Continue reading Compliments on my parenting skills, from two police officers
It is MUCH better to be STUPID and unemployed/disabled
This week has been a bitty one to be honest. One sensory review of my smallest ADHD son, coupled with the ever increasing joy of signing on and parenting classes. Let’s start with the post though, and a refusal to renew the Disability Living Allowance for our eldest son who was born with bilateral cataracts and … Continue reading It is MUCH better to be STUPID and unemployed/disabled
Vodafone- I’m loyal, not masochistic
As a bona fide geek, I joined the line of people waiting for the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge phone last month, and when I saw its metallic beauty in the shops at last, I called Vodafone customer services (191) from my decrepit elderly iPhone in order to upgrade. I'm calling this day, April 14th, Tuesday, Day … Continue reading Vodafone- I’m loyal, not masochistic
A week of contradictions
As a celebration of diversity, I think it is amazing that we live on a planet with the starkly contrasting environments that I have observed this week. We have huge multinational companies striving to make the world a more efficient or easier place with technology that makes your mind boggle and climbers on Mt Everest facing perhaps the world's greatest natural challenge, particularly in … Continue reading A week of contradictions
