Expectations
My mother was a teacher and a really good teacher. As a teenager myself I knew some of her students as friends, and they loved and respected her. As she […]
My mother was a teacher and a really good teacher. As a teenager myself I knew some of her students as friends, and they loved and respected her. As she […]
It was while preparing a funeral for a much-loved lady, that I first heard the phrase; ‘She was a radiator not a drain’, which instantly gave me a vivid sense […]
I’ve long thought that simply saying to someone ‘Don’t worry’, is both pointless and infuriating. If only it were that easy to switch off our anxiety. Besides, there’s sometimes good […]
Foreign Languages are not a strength of mine. My schoolgirl French is pitiful and my brief efforts at German have dwindled to a single, decidedly odd, phrase: ‘Ich habe keine […]