I refuse to use the word can’t, and so, in the spirit of futile optimism, I am teaching myself the piano. This has come about since I had an out-of-body experience whilst watching the marvellous biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, and I Read more
I have messed up. My executive decision making skill has proven to be non-existent. In the world of bathroom design, I am a right royal cock up. Our family bathroom has started to take shape. No longer is it a Read more
Yesterday, Little Seymour Number One went to work. She gleefully accepted the last-minute opportunity to go down to a local pub, and wash up for four hours. She came home with a fist full of notes, and collapsed in a Read more
Dear Number One, I would like to apologise to you. I have behaved badly, and, now that I have had time to think about it, I think I can put my apology down into words. Here goes… You are fifteen. Read more
Why? Just why? What am I doing? I am way out of my depth, and fast losing control of what I thought might be a nice little hobby. Yes, dear readers, The Four Little Seymours’ mummy is now a fully Read more
Boy Seymour is a git and a twunt and a maniac. He’s annoying and puerile and totally f@cking infuriating. He shouts and rants and raves. He throws stuff. He fibs. That is on a bad day. On a good day, Read more
Poor Little Seymour Number Two. Yes, she’s Number Two, so … The only piece of brand new school uniform she’s had this year, as she ventures off into the world of secondary school, is a pleated skirt, of vaguely the Read more
The Buggers have returneth to ye old place of education, the place from which both dreams and nightmares are born and where you will, whether you like it or not, have “the best years of your life!”. (Probably – let’s Read more
It is the Last week of the summer holidays. I am gutted and excited all at the same time. Gutted, because the summer is over, another academic year is about to start, with all its hecticity (I made that one Read more
I tidied Mini Seymour’s bedroom the other day. I rearranged it, and put things in a kind of order. Despite the lack of carpet and the mish mash of furniture, it was an improvement. I was happy with my work. Read more