With terrifying speed, much of the world’s population is either socially distancing or living in total lockdown because of Covid-19. For many of us, this means the entire family living and working form home while homeschooling children. It’s a stressful situation and relationships will be strained. I think we could all do with some help
New Year’s Eve was just 83 days ago. If you’d told me then that by the Easter break I’d be homeschooling my kids, I’d have laughed at you as it’s an approach that has never appealed.
The news that UK schools were to close as a result of coronavirus initially made me despair. The implications of a long school closure have the potential to be very serious. Although the news was inevitable, I felt sad, worried and a sense of melancholy. After a few hours, I began to think differently about
I have just had the most bizarre weekend. The idea was to pick the kids up from school on Friday and drive the hundred miles or-so back home, where I grew up, to visit my parents, brothers and their families. At that time on a Friday, we should have been back in time for an
You know the poem Not Waving But Drowning? That poem describes the day I was having when I spoke to dad of three Tom Fletcher, a man with many talents but best known as singer and guitarist for McFly
