It is ‘old-fashioned’ that only mothers stay at home to look after babies?

Nick Clegg the Deputy Prime Minister has unveiled plans for new parents to share parenting leave from work. New mothers would have to take the first two weeks off work  and then Mums and Dads could then split up to 50 weeks in leave between them. Sounds like a great idea to me but has condemned the plan […]

The Sue Atkins Wednesday Story To Ponder

Here’s your Wednesday story from my never ending notebook and everlasting pencil called The Logs. One Friday morning a couple of months ago the log man came to our house and delivered our winter pile of logs for our open fire but he dumped them outside my neighbour Helen’s door instead and she sent me […]