Animated Teenager

Monday 29th August 2011

The word holiday seems to have two different meanings in this household. For the children for example, it means six long weeks of eating more than usual, wearing more clothes than usual and demanding more money than usual, all in return for doing basically nothing, and in the sons case bringing hoards of friends round so I have to act as doorman all day! On the other hand for any adult stupid enough not to be elsewhere it means triple housework duties and redecoration of the teenagers bedroom, (I confess it was my idea!). To give the teenager some due however she has helped with the painting and done a good job, showing more animation in the last two days than the whole of the prevoius six months! We are now on the countdown to the return to school and normality for the next three months, until Christmas rears its ugly head again!

No time for much gardening obviously but saw this strawberry tree yesterday and also these oak apples.

"Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years"

Anon