Some decisions are easy to make You know what you have to do Some are much more difficult You wrestle with them Debate and discuss Decide, undecide and decide again Last year I made a decision An easy decision I … Continue reading →

So teachers everywhere are worried about the new end of key stage tests Year 2 and Year 6 face equally gruelling assessments Including the new spelling, punctuation and grammar paper The introduction of the new test Has sent many teachers … Continue reading →

I have an angel in my pocket It is Bea’s angel really From a Nativity Playmobil set She has taken rather a shine to it Now I seem to have become attached to it We take her every where we … Continue reading →

It is here The week of BETT The beginning of the end The beginning of reliving the end Tilda’s end Tilda died on the last day of BETT 2013 David had been working away all week Had barely seen us … Continue reading →

Ice has a magic, can’t be controlled. Stronger than one, stronger than ten, stronger than a hundred men! Ho! Read more: Soundtrack – Frozen Heart Lyrics | MetroLyrics We try to get outside every day Even if it is just … Continue reading →

Dear Esther I have just had to leave you half way through a bedtime story I know you do not understand Bea was screaming and calling out Mummy We could hear her a floor away Above the letters from the … Continue reading →

It is so easy to say that I want to learn to live again It is so easy to plan in my head all the things I could do The difficulty comes in doing them The guilt strikes when they … Continue reading →

It is now many steps later, 8 years in fact I got the job I wrote this for, loved it and had a wonderful experience I grew so much in my job, met families I am still in touch with … Continue reading →