GETTING ON..
With the year, with each other.... You know you are "over" childbearing age when you pass push-chairs in the street and, instead of peering in and googling over the wee bairn, you speed up, sniggering to yourself,..." if only you knew...!! " Something about having a bickering 16 and 12 year old under my roof has marked the end of any baby desire..a case of rigid, hormonal shut down!! Anecdote : Thursday evening after a 12 hour teaching day. Husband in Paris. Myself too brain-dead to be even remotely responsible in a kitchen, I call my children and tell them to meet me in our local noodle café for a quick meal. I get there first and sit down to a fabulously large glass of crisp dry white. Vibratio ns of the negative kind approach my table as the progeny slouch into restaurant already wrangling. They sit down, so far no salutations to the mother, admist a slinging match of insults " you stink, you are so ugly, pimple face, 4 eyes, thick head, brain de...