So after the Never-Ending Snow Day, EldestGirl’s school was open again, and there was much rejoicing. Until, at 3.30 a.m., her dulcet tones came drifting down the landing. “I’ve been sick.” She was indeed sick. Very, very sick. She spattered every surface available. And so commenced another 48 hours with no school. I was very … [Read more…]
On Thursday, EldestGirl’s school was closed because of some severe snow locally. TheBloke (TM) and I are in the extremely fortunate position of not needing to battle to get to an office, and so I, at least, was delighted at #makingmemories (vom vom vom) but I genuinely was a little bit excited about doing loads … [Read more…]
I have been waiting for this day for a while, and have been biting my tongue in the meantime. At the end of last week Barclays announced their gender pay gap. In 2002 I started working in banking, beginning at RBS, moving to HSBC before ending up at Barclays, from which I was made redundant … [Read more…]
At Nunn the Wiser Towers, we love gadgets. I have been an early adopter of technology since 1995 when Mr Nunn brought home a shiny Gateway PC with a 14.4 modem that could connect to the Internet. There were genuinely so few people connected to the Internet back then, that the only person I knew … [Read more…]
As it was half-term, we decided that the whole family should go and visit my parents “for a break”. Mr and Mrs Nunn are very good at taking the children when they wake early, and entertaining them for an hour, before TheBloke (TM) and I crawl out of bed. I suspect they use this time … [Read more…]
I went to an all girls’ school. When I got to the sixth form, much excitement ensued, as we were trusted with our own little kitchenette, which contained a kettle, and was adequately stocked with tea, coffee and milk. I don’t believe there was a microwave, because although many of us were legal voting age … [Read more…]
I worked in marketing for a while. In marketing, there are two sides: the client side (the side with the product and the budget) and the agency side (the people who come up with the creative campaign). I always worked client side, and was permanently amused by our agency counterparts. Some of this was jealousy; … [Read more…]
The printer hates me. The printer has always hated me, despite it being me who bought it, me who unboxed it, me who plugged it in and gave it its first life. This is bad enough, but the printer has now actually moved beyond hating me and, like an embarrassed teenager, refuses to recognise me … [Read more…]
If EldestGirl has inherited anything from me, it is her winning combination of extreme, insane competitiveness around anything she’s good at – and her complete refusal to engage in competition at anything she won’t win. At school, I would have to come top in any English homework, spelling tests and so on. Sports’ Day, however, you … [Read more…]
“Have you ever done any extreme sports?” my skydiving instructor asked. There’s a sentence I never thought I’d type. Well, it was my indoor skydiving instructor, but still, never something I thought I’d do. “Yes,” I said confidently. “I have been on Nemesis at Alton Towers. Twice. It was terrifying.” “Hmm, that’s more of a … [Read more…]
