

Elizabeth foster mother to her own brother.
As she runs toward me in the lashings of rain, pushing a buggy, her black hair is as soaking wet as her clothes. I meet up with her in...


The banning of pyjamas.
Who needs pyjamas? One morning, as I was roaring at one, “Why are you peeing in the bushes? Can you not go in the toilet?” To which he...


My husband and his handbag – gay or european?
I would think of myself as a very liberal person. I was raised by a feminist mother in the 70’s who took me to pro-choice marches in...


The vomit drill, like the fire drill, every home needs one.
Being woken in the middle of the night, in the dark, by the cries of your dependent and the awful smell of vomit is always a nightmare....