Just sitting by the fire, watching the lights being slowly turned on in the other houses in our road. Chichester is waking up and it is time to begin the walk through another day.
Been preparing for a parenting group this afternoon. Every time I plan the sessions, I realise that most of the time I don't do any of the things it tells parents to do! But I've noticed in general that it is often teachers and people like me running courses like this, who have the worst behaved children! The truth is, that as a parent, we never get it right and we never stop feeling guilty about that.. If you read the job description for " parent," before having children, I don't think many people would apply! . There is definitely no walking normally through parenthood, mostly just groping blindly and hoping you sometimes get it right!
In the end book club last night was really interesting although no one liked the book much. Spent a long time talking about how sad it is that no one writes letters anymore. And wondering how posterity is going to remember us when future generations will have to trawl through reams of spam and boring emails to find the one interesting thing that happened. We were thinking maybe we could collect all our most important emails and save them in a file marked " for future generations!"
My sister and I were discussing future generations and the mess bankers are helping us make of this one. She said she had met lots of international bankers where they live and the strange thing was that none of them seemed very intelligent. My brother-in-law said that actually, the strange thing was that my sister thought that being an international banker and being intelligent had anything to do with each other!
Almost all the lights in the road turned on now. Time to turn from blogs to packed lunches.
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