Helen Mead column

Our columnist Helen Mead takes
a wry look at family life

Gardening is no bed of roses

8:36am Monday 13th May 2013

Isn’t gardening supposed to be relaxing – something you do on days off or bank holidays to unwind?

Rules? Give me a break!

9:56am Tuesday 7th May 2013

My children went through a phase of telling me off.

No chance of picture perfection

8:41am Monday 29th April 2013

“Mum, can I please have another £5?”

Time to get family files in order...

8:38am Monday 15th April 2013

Last week my 14-year-old daughter asked me to add something to my supermarket shopping list. “I'd like a ring binder file, for my school work,” she said.

Respect a vanishing commodity

8:08am Monday 8th April 2013

“I get no respect in this house.”

Panic as laptop has packed in

9:34am Tuesday 2nd April 2013

You’d think the world had ended.

Grammar’s not wot it used to be!

10:01am Monday 25th March 2013

What is happening to our language? Poor English, bad grammar and a flagrant disregard for correct use of the apostrophe seem to be part of 21st century life. And, the worst of it is that no-one seems to care. Well, very few of us do.

Why Mr Angry can live longer

9:01am Monday 18th March 2013

My husband is always telling me I have an anger problem.

Bring me sunshine – and dread

8:30am Monday 11th March 2013

There’s nothing like a spot of sunshine for throwing gloom on what should be a good day.

Heels today – plasters tomorrow!

8:56am Monday 4th March 2013

Last year my eldest daughter bought her first pair of high-heeled shoes.

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