I’m feeling sorry for myself today. My parents are having a large drinks party and my husband has been asked to help. That leaves me looking after the children alone on a Sunday, again, trapped by their inescapable demands and squabbles to the extent I feel claustrophobic.
We tried joining the party but a room full [...]
I’ve just returned from a holiday in The Gambia, West Africa, with my two children (aged 4 and 2). “Are you mad?” I hear you gasp, “travelling with children!”
Actually, it’s very rewarding.
I never expected that I would ever take a child abroad – I didn’t fly until I was twelve and there’s nothing wrong with [...]
After years of hard word and fretting over writing Revolution Baby: Motherhood and Anarchy in Kyrgyzstan it’s always very rewarding when people contact me to say how much they’ve enjoyed reading it. Carole very kindly sent an extremely detailed review and it was especially gratifying to see that she had enjoyed and interpreted the book [...]
Those who have read my book and become interested in yurts might like to look at http://www.yurtworks.co.uk/
This company is run by Tim Hutton who makes beautiful yurts and also runs a yurt camp as an alternative holiday venue in Cornwall.
Tim showed one of his yurt frames at my book launch last November, a beautiful structure [...]