Preparing for the Empty Nest – new workshop date!
If you’re getting nervous about the prospect of an empty nest there is help at hand – workshop news!… Read More Preparing for the Empty Nest – new workshop date!
Category: Post 40
Pilates -getting down to my essential matwork
Empty nest – exercise – pilates and finding a new love and focus… Read More Pilates -getting down to my essential matwork
September: You say goodbye and I say hello!
I don’t know why we insist on New Year’s resolutions in January. Midwinter has to be the least inspirational time of year to do anything. We should move our New Year to September, when young people actually move on in one way or another, and the rest of us realise that well over half of… Read More September: You say goodbye and I say hello!
Summertime with adult children – chilling with challenges
Summertime… and the living should be easy, but I fear that what we can actually expect will be invigorating but much less relaxing than Gershwin. Here is what’s likely to be going on in the mature family’s house this summer: Temperamental weather. Living in the British Isles, we talk the talk about barbecues and picnics,… Read More Summertime with adult children – chilling with challenges
Harambe and Yamato Tanooka: suddenly everyone’s a parenting expert – or an expert parent
Parenting is tough – as we learned this week. Mess up and the twitter mob will have you on the pillory!… Read More Harambe and Yamato Tanooka: suddenly everyone’s a parenting expert – or an expert parent
Advice to my 20 year old son
My son has just celebrated his 20th birthday. My son isn’t a teenager any more. There is a sub context there which is how bloody old that makes me, but more relevantly, how quickly he has become the fine young man he is now and how important the next decade is likely to be… Read More Advice to my 20 year old son
Enrolling in the University of the Empty Nest
Hello Empty Nest – Hello new challenges! Your children, Edwina and Cuthbert, as we have lovingly named them, have now settled in at Readingham University, they have overcome first term flu, knuckled down to some work and may even have cooked a hot meal or two. In the meantime, after the initial spell of weepiness… Read More Enrolling in the University of the Empty Nest
Hello empty nest... I've been expecting you! 