Thursday, 21 May 2026

Scents, sense and SENDs

I don't know whether this is just a joyous coincidence, or whether Philippa read yesterday's blog posting and decided to treat me a little, but this morning, my wife started wearing a new perfume that contains 'a hint of blackcurrant and elderflower'. As you can imagine, this has driven my brain a little bit crazy. She brushed past me in the kitchen and my senses exploded with delight and excitement. When she kissed me goodbye, I almost squirted an entire generation of potential Chesworth offspring into my undershorts. If you see what I'm saying...

On a less unpleasant note, I have managed to dissuade Gavin (my boss) from a ridiculous team-building exercise idea where he wanted to take loads of us out to sea on a high-speed boat to try and 'learn the Suffolk coastline from the water'. He seemed to think that our understanding of our local area would be improved if we took an expensive trip with some fishermen and 'got to view our county as the Vikings would have'. I honestly wonder sometimes what the Hell is wrong with him, but at least I'm slowly learning how to talk him out of these things.

In other news, we have a group staying with us this week who are from a specialist special needs school in Lincolnshire. They've been amazing. We've had to make a few adjustments to things to accommodate them and to give them the activities they wanted, but the staff are delighted with our efforts, and all the children are amazing. I don't need reminders that I am incredibly fortunate to have children with no disabilities or limitations on their lives, but sometimes it's nice to get those reminders anyway.

RC 21-5-26


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