So; Sunday morning quite early I was standing at the sink trying to work out how to clean out a peanut butter jar of those smears you can't get with a spoon, because I've just found out you're not supposed to put anything with food attached or even to which food has been attached (eg pizza boxes) in the recycle bin.Complicated? Still it's for the best.I had a kettle boiling to try to melt the stuff...
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Thursday, September 10, 2020
SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT
She came to us at very little notice...it was either our house or she'd have to sleep in a police cell, would you believe, aged seven.I have never found the police to be anything other than fantastic when they are involved in helping children. All the same our spare bed was better than a night in a police station, with who knows yelling what in the next 'suite'.My phone had rung at about 11.30pm,...
Saturday, September 05, 2020
MUMS AND DADS
When a young person comes into your home to live, their thoughts about their real parents are so very important to the whole exercise.Fostered children have difficult perceptions about their parents, most will always struggle thinking about their mum and dad.Who doesn't sometimes?A few years ago, after my dad died, I found a photo of him I liked. He was a young man of 29 sat astride a big motor...