KISS FROM A ROSE

Dear Alice, It was back to school this week, which meant back to peace and quiet in my home office too, yay!… at least until 4.15pm when Rodent Boy gets home. The really big news here this week though has been the introduction of Teacher Mum’s ‘Technology Free Hour’. I have given her my full support for this interesting new concept that she believes we simply have to try. She heard about it on Twitter from...

HOME ALONE

Saying farewell to our excited ‘gapper’ as she checked-in at Sydney Airport, was a sad occasion for us all. You could almost taste the emotional tension in the air as she, along with 129 other Australian gap students, all snaked their way around the Virgin Atlantic check-in. In addition to both apprehensive parents and siblings, each traveller also seemed to be accompanied by a posse of at least three or...