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Monday 25 March 2024
Immersion grandparenting
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Hammocks are fun, says Matilda Since the grandkids are with us again, with their parents in tow, it struck me that I’d better get a move on ...
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Sunday 10 March 2024
The grandparenting chronicles: carnival
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Granddad’s glasses! What a joy for Elliott February saw me back in Hoyo de Manzanares, visiting the grandkids in their home. It was carnival...
Monday 12 February 2024
Rising early: the pain and the joy
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How sad, I used to feel, that old people woke up so early. What a shame, I used to tell myself, that they couldn’t sleep in as I did, till 9...
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Tuesday 6 February 2024
A cheering irony from a land of many ironies
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Having failed to inform myself on what to expect, the first time I visited Stormont, the home of Northern Ireland’s parliament, I was shocke...
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Monday 22 January 2024
Non-Christmas grandparenting
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Christmas is about kids. That’s a commonplace. In our case, that means grandkids. In our home, Christmas was for Matilda and Elliott Not th...
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Saturday 6 January 2024
England's shameful conquest of itself
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Nearly three decades ago, Danielle and I saw a remarkable production of Shakespeare’s Richard II . Slightly over three decades before that I...
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Sunday 31 December 2023
A (rare) good news story
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There isn’t so much good news around at the moment to want to pass by a piece that comes my way. And this one particularly attracted my atte...
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