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Mum’s gone to Sweden: How to embarrass your teenage son on holiday

Trish Burgess Posted on09/08/201221/09/2016 Stockholm, Sweden, Teenagers 33 Comments

Half way through our second full day in Stockholm, Rory wrestled my trusty notebook out of my hands and wrote the following: “Awkward and slightly embarrassing moments Mum unable to say ‘hop on, hop...

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Man and Boy

Trish Burgess Posted on07/07/201221/09/2016 Teenagers 35 Comments

The end of an era? The little boy on the left starting his reception class with a big smile and a neat uniform. The young man on the right, at the end of Year...

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Son’s gone to the south of France

Trish Burgess Posted on30/03/201207/04/2016 Teenagers 24 Comments

Rory has been home from his French exchange trip for a couple of weeks now and it dawned on me that I hadn’t told you all how he’d got on. Time to put that...

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Sur le pont d’Avignon

Trish Burgess Posted on11/03/201229/06/2017 Teenagers 24 Comments

The second leg of the French exchange trip began this morning with an early alarm call at 5.15am. As we went to bed last night Rory said he wouldn’t need a call in the...

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A conversation I wish I’d never started – No.4

Trish Burgess Posted on18/02/201207/04/2016 Conversation I wish I'd never started, Teenagers 32 Comments

Another in the series of embarrassing mother/teenage son conversations. (For reference, may I suggest conversation one, two and three) Me: There’s a song I can’t get out of my head. Son: Oh God, here we...

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Au Revoir, Jean-Pierre

Trish Burgess Posted on12/02/201207/04/2016 Teenagers 38 Comments

Jean-Pierre, our French exchange student, left on Wednesday morning after spending a week with us and, I have to say, I miss him a little. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were waiting at...

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La Plume de Ma Tante est dans le Tupperware Box

Trish Burgess Posted on31/01/201207/04/2016 Teenagers 45 Comments

Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ wondering what he should have in his packed lunch Not since Harold stood with both eyes looking out over the English Channel in October 1066 has a French invasion been so...

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The French are Coming!

Trish Burgess Posted on16/01/201207/04/2016 Teenagers 20 Comments

This weekend was mostly spent  trying to sort out the spare room in preparation for a French invasion. Rory’s school are participating in a student exchange and, despite me thinking he wouldn’t be keen, our son...

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