It was February. Cold. Sunny. I delayed getting up, wondering if I should even bother going. But I rose reluctantly, put on my most expensive suit, my smartest boots and a pair of glasses (even though I don’t wear glasses) and headed for the station and a long train journey. In my hand was [...]

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At school prize-giving I was awarded the Hoare Cup for Music.
‘Hoare’ as in ‘Whore’.
Oh how we all laughed!

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I’ve seen this all over the place. I’ve no idea where it started or whom to give credit to for it. I’m also way behind everyone posting it, but that just sums up my life really. So, ten things I’ve done that you probably haven’t (fifteen actually – you’ll see I’m going for quantity over [...]

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At the terrible school where I was bullied, there were various offspring of famous people and some pupils who have subsequently become famous. It was that kind of school. One girl went on to be a successful Hollywood actress. She had an older sister whom I barely even noticed. But the younger sister was an [...]

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My Eldest Son, Harry, who has just turned three experienced his first minor incident of bullying today. Because he is three and I am his mother, I did what any self-respecting mother would do and stepped in to stop the situation. When he is older, I won’t be there for him in [...]

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If somebody had told me that the anxious feeling I always had a a kid would persist as depression in adulthood I would have wondered what was the point of such an existence? Not as in “I can’t continue”, but as in why would God or whoever put someone on this earth to suffer a [...]

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