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The environmental impact of a vaccine

Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been non-stop talk of a vaccine for SARS CoV-2 which will put this whole coronavirus episode behind us and allow us to move forwards.  At the time of writing, there are hopes that a potential vaccine will be available from December of this year.  In the USA, […]

Let the learning continue…

We personally were relieved when the kids went back to school.  Yes, we were worried about them catching coronavirus and passing it on and then we were worried about the societal impact of children going back to school and the numbers of cases escalating across the country as a whole.  However, we are all learning […]

Pool palms

My youngest enjoys his swimming and partakes in a local swimming club on a rather regular basis.  With the easing of lockdown in the UK, his club restarted a few weeks ago.  He was especially jubilant, his siblings were a little jealous (as it was hot and the pool looked so inviting) and we, as […]

The ‘joys’ and perils of homeschooling in lockdown.

Many of us with school age children will have experienced the peculiar ‘delight’ of having to homeschool our children during lockdown.    For the majority of us, whose only stress used to involve the dropping off and picking up, ensuring their uniform was clean and fitted, together with attendance at parents’ evenings, being responsible for […]

The downsides of being manly in COVID-19

Since the coronavirus pandemic started, we’ve all heard of how children are disproportionately protected from severe disease and then we started hearing that adult women were more protected than adult men from severe disease. [Guan WJ, Ni ZY, Hu Y, Liang WH, Ou CQ, et al. Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 in China. N […]

Allergy to taekwondo

Once upon a time we had one child and we enrolled him as a toddler in various activity clubs in the area to get him out and socialising with other toddlers and also to get me out and socialising with other mums.  I don’t think this is an uncommon thing in modern times.  Now we […]

Advances in skin cancer chemoprevention

Dry January, Veganuary…, it’s been a bit of a quiet month for us with many an evening tucked up on the sofa watching a brief something on Netflix.  On the recommendation of certain work colleagues (and even the eldest of my children – blush!), we were directed towards a short Netflix series called The Witcher. […]