Snow!

₁₆₉Here too, enough to go out and play in. We're thrilled. Linnea woke at 8 and begged every five minutes to phone people after that until Maria phoned us at nine, and then we phoned Alison, and there will be people to play in the snow with, definitely, but no-one is ready yet.

This includes Emer who doesn't want me to look at her this morning.

(no subject)

"Most women now work and their new economic independence contributes to levels of family break-up which are higher in the UK than in any other Western European country."

Because trapping women through economic dependence is good for children. And fathers have NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.