DELILAH AND I

I've spent more time than I like to think about, over the last three years, driving back and forth around the m25 between Essex and Hertfordshire. I've drive...

It's only been two days. How can it be so difficult already. I often spend days alone, what with living alone and having no local friends, but this feels dif...

Oh today. You began at five, you were tedious by ten and it's only eight now but it feels later and I think you have outworn your welcome. I've been at home....

So today was the weirdest day ever in school. I've been a teacher since 96-97 and I clearly recall my first last day of summer term. The summer holidays stre...

I thought about that title. I didn't know whether I wanted to blog about mum but it feels wrong not to. I would have bought or sent flowers. We would have sp...

Yes. It's here. Although my day began in a coffee tsunami provided by Delilah, as a side effect of her usual leap from a distance onto my chest which is how ...

Today was one of my two days off. I'm a lucky, lucky person and took phased retirement. I know, I know: I don't LOOK old enough. I feel old enough. I'd dec...

Yesterday, they told us the schools are closing on Monday. We heard about it at school in a meeting, about an hour before it was announced on the news but it...