Accidental House Life

There's a slight shift in Accidental Houselife. As the kids get older and the possibility of returning to work beautifully glides into view, I find there is less I can write about regarding being a stay at home parent. Both in KS2 now, settled in school and friendship groups and with an abundance of after school activities to occupy them, being a stay at home parent becomes more about maid duties and food shopping. As exciting as that sounds it's now created space in the old grey matter for the things that always used to bash around in the space that used to be my brain. I realise this will only be a short interlude as the offsprings puberty beckons, but hey, I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts. So, dear reader, as you may remember two of my main joys in life are politics and economics. Sad but true. I love a good debate, a clash of minds, ideas swapped, facts whittled down to the bone and the satisfaction that comes with learning something new. I also love a good rant b

I consider myself smarter than the average bear. I don't mean Einstein levels of intelligence or that I could have gone toe to toe with Professor Hawking, but I can tie my own shoe laces and I left education with some very acceptable achievements. So trust me when I say this, what follows may hurt, and even though this is only my version of it, sometimes the truth does. I believe most people, with space in their head for thought will agree, the world is not as good as it should be. Climate change (yes it is real) is playing havoc across the globe, murders occur in the name of religious ideology (known in my house as "my god is better than your god" syndrome), school children are killed. It appears weekly, because Americans appear to be so afraid of ' something'.  They all need and want weapons of death, and no democracy in the world actual appears to listen to the will of the people. So, all pretty crappy I'm sure you'll agree. Now, I know there is good