Written on 18th June 2026 There are no words to say How little justice has been served today. Prison, jail, locked up 'till they die. TV, food, comfort, all just fine. What does compare, what could ever? A brick coming down on a single white feather. Beating, forcing - even ending - could never compare [...]
It's Tuesday, I am sorry! I usually write this blog on a Monday evening and yesterday evening was, in a word, awful. Aidan didn't go down until after 9, Sophia didn't go down until after 10. I was frustrated and frightened, remembering how bad it was when every evening was like that a couple of [...]
Well, aren't these starting to come around at an alarming rate! We've had one, two, three, four and now five. FIVE! It feels pretty big, does five. Five years of our Sophia, five years of parenting. It has been the most extraordinary half a decade. But what to say about our now five year old? [...]
Just before I was 30, I wrote a blog called 40 before 40 and one thing I wanted to do was bake a cake with Sophia. It has been a long time since I added to this blog series and I'm actually behind by about 4. But I couldn't have such a happy afternoon with [...]
Rev Poppy 