Once when I was a mother of a newborn and a toddler a mother of teenagers said to me "you know I think they need you around more when they are teenagers than when they are babies". As I wiped pooey bums, worried about delayed speech development, monitored TV consumption and agonised over the nutritional value of a diet consisting solely of peanut … [Read more...]
A Plea to Gen Y Social Media Inventors
Dear Gen Y Techno Nerds I'm calling an amnesty. Could you please stop the invention of any more social media. Just for a little while. Until I get my head around the ones you've already created. I've done my best. I've Tweeted, Facebooked, Instagrammed, Pinned. I know there is so much more out that, but my frail mind just can't take … [Read more...]
The trials and tribulations of a techno connected life
We aren't exactly the most technical of families The desktop computer is four years old. My laptop belongs to a time period pre-everything, any attempt at internet connection allows you to go off and cook a three course meal while you wait for it to load and it won't let you type the letter "g". This proves somewhat difficult given my email … [Read more...]
