Most days, I’ve seen newspaper and social media headlines about the impact of the pandemic on children and young people and arguments about how to make amends. Much of it is about how to help with an academic ‘catch-up’, with periodic reminders (usually initiated by the footballer Marcus Rashford) of the impact of the pandemic […]
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Today I received a call from my son while he was at school: he was feeling ill and wanted to come home. We went through the usual to-ing and fro-ing with the gatekeepers at school reception and my own maternal gatekeeper (‘is he really ill enough to stay off school?’) before he was allowed […]
Along with the exhortations to ‘lose weight’, ‘dry out’, ‘get fit’, ‘save up’, which assail us from every direction at this time of year, come the calls to ‘clear out’. Declutter. Spring clean. To paraphrase William Morris, if it’s not beautiful or useful, dispense with it. If you haven’t worn it for a year, pass […]