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Lady Chatterley’s Lover is one of those books everyone has an opinion about, even if, maybe especially if, they haven’t read it. For that reason, I suggested it for our Book Club. It’s one of those books I read as a teenager, thinking that I “should” be reading it but actually getting nothing from it. Now [...] Researching for my new column (sorry, I couldn’t resist mentioning it, I’m so excited. It’s in Nursery World and the first instalment is published this week, my copy arrived today!) I found an interesting article called Trying their Hardest, about a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation called Parenting in Ordinary Families: Diversity, complexity and [...] Yesterday I thought a lot about what being a mother means. For a mother I met in Bangladesh, being a mother means a desperate struggle to keep a child alive and healthy. During the Mother’s Day service, M, one of the Guides, read a prayer for mothers… “for those who struggle to balance the tasks of [...] Last night (Sunday) I sat down to write this post, but there were problems with my website so I couldn’t publish it. Fate I think as I realised it was rather jaded and cynical – a combination of two overtired little boys messing about instead of going to sleep and the fact I’m reading Slummy [...] Perfume, chocolates, flowers, moisturiser – all these things are being advertised as what we want for Mother’s Day. My husband has even been emailed by Comet to suggest I might want a Dyson. Actually, all I want is to be left alone for a while. This sounds utterly miserable, spoilt and selfish. I have friends who [...] The project flat M stays in has two staff to look after everyone; Babul and Bibar, a couple who I thought were in their fifties – M told me they are not much older than us, in their 30’s; the harsh life of Bangladesh takes a physical toll. They were very kind to us, concerned [...] I am very flattered to have been asked a few times when a report on the Bangladesh trip will appear on this blog – it’s gratifying that people are reading and interested. We experienced so much in our ten days in Dhaka that it’s hard to know where to start, so I’ve decided to break the [...] |
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