Here we are again - nearing the end of the school holiday... Do you know that the kids get almost three weeks off at Christmas nowadays? 3 WEEKS?! Yep. Apparently nowadays kids break up from school before Christmas and don't go back until the middle of January. I'm pretty sure that when we were kids back in the 80s (showing our age there.. eek!), we went immediately back to school after New Year's Day. Luckily, we now live thirty years in the future and we can work from home

It’s four weeks into the seven week long (long being the key word there) Summer school holiday. As I’ve probably mentioned before, holiday clubs are an enormous rip-off, not to mention that the boys would cause an actual mutiny against the unwitting supervisors. So, we decided a home-holiday would be better, with me (Daddy) working on freelance projects in the dining room while the boys play/squabble/kick a ball out on the village green under my occasional supervision. Natura