It’s November and a busy time of year. Many of us will be busy thinking of Christmas and the Christmas holidays. The importance of having your boiler serviced or how to deal with a carbon monoxide leak in your family home are probably issues way, way back in the recesses of your mind.
If your partner died, you would hope for sympathetic treatment from the Powers That Be. The reality is very different. Let’s, just for a moment, look at the financial realities. Eligibility for Bereavement Support Payments has just been slashed from 20 years to 18 months. Oh, and you have to be married to receive them.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve developed a real soft spot for the Movember charity. It’s annual moustache growing antics have become a well-established fundraising venture, just like Children in Need or Comic Relief.
I’ve read a huge amount on the subject of smacking over the past couple of weeks. Thus far I’ve kept my thoughts to myself but I can do it no longer.
Just the other day, I set myself a question to answer: What was scarier, a bunch of schoolchildren or the rainforest? I was going into my daughters’ school to talk about my experiences in the rainforest.
