Idiosyncrasies are what make individuals so interesting, but they can also make them really annoying if they are totally at odds with your own learned and acquired behaviours. I find few things more uncomfortable than […]
Tag: kids
‘WE’RE NOT HERE TO RELAX’: THE TRAVELS OF A FATHER AND SON
Travelling with someone you love is just like living with them, only more intense. I remember being in Laos with my late wife once and realising she hadn’t said a word to me for two […]
THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD: THE TRAVELS OF A FATHER AND SON
Much to my surprise, I found this next entry in the notes on my iPhone yesterday afternoon. It was entirely written by my son on the first day of our six-week trip round Italy last […]
BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO INSECURITY
‘I don’t like my school anymore,’ my six-year-old son told me after his first day in year two last week. ‘I haven’t got any friends.’ This seemed peculiar given that he is still attending the […]
