Oh dear the tiny problems this pandemic throw up besides the unimaginable ones.It'll be Halloween in a couple of days!Every Halloween for the last few decades we've gone along with it, and gone along with whatever our foster children wanted from it. Very few wanted to go out door-knocking. Even fewer wanted to dress scary, for their own reasons. They preferred to stay in, pass judgement on the kids...
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Monday, October 26, 2020
SUMMERTIME
Fostering throws up plenty of questions such as; "Why did I let myself in for this…"No, seriously, the questions don't come only from one's own mind. Foster children ask the strangest things, sometimes tinged with enormous wisdom and insight.Middle one yesterday;"We put the clocks back an hour? Why?"Me; "It's to do with daylight saving."Him: "How does it save daylight? That's stupid. There's the same...
Saturday, October 17, 2020
BAKE OFF YOURSELF
One of the great fallbacks in fostering is cooking. On a rainy day, when there's nothing on the TV, when no-one's got any friends, when Contact gets cancelled. It used to get howls of derision;"Lame!"But down the years I've learned to jazz it up, like last weekend.The Saturday had dragged and Sunday started too early, the first "I'm bored!" broke ground before my other half had finished...
Friday, October 09, 2020
IT'S OKAY TO BE SAD
How are you doing with the way the world is right now?The thing with blogging is that someone will probably read this post some years from now when (hopefully) there'll be a vaccine for Covid 19 and life will be back to normal. But more likely you're reading this with the pandemic in full flow, the second wave kicking in. We have no idea what the Christmas holidays will be like, and few people will...