Tag: Safety

  • Driving

    Phew! Just got back from my first drive with my dear son, Ed. He’s had lessons and his mum has been out with him, but this was my first time. He’s very calm and quite together, but we had an interesting route. I took him to a very strange junction. He couldn’t work out where…

  • The Wonderful Game of Pirates

    If you read my entry about School Stacking Chairs on Monday, you may wonder about the game of Pirates that I mentioned. I don’t know if everyone played it or if it was peculiar to my school, which was a boarding prep school in Surrey. It was Mr Turner, the new PE teacher, fresh from…

  • Anthony Browne – Authors in Schools

    Dear, lovely, sensible Anthony Browne, Children’s Laureate, had to put his two pennyworth into the Authors in Schools debate. I suspect he would rather have not got involved, but his position means that the press will come to him first for a comment. I think he mediated his way through the minefield quite well and…