Do you remember being 15? If I’ve got my sums right, I was in fourth year at school and absolutely, impossibly head-over-heels in love with entirely the wrong boy. A decent guitar player and a passionate fan of The Beatles, he believed he was the next John Lennon. When John Lennon was shot, he began… Read more »
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We are officially empty-nesters. Celebrations, tinged with sadness.
We are officially empty-nesters. I’m not sure whether to celebrate or cry. In spite of all my bravado, I’m not sure I was quite ready for Daughter #2 to leave home. Having been through it all before – with Daughter #1’s dramatic departure to Honduras for a year at the age of 17, and with… Read more »