Ferris Buller famously said on the morning that he took a day off – ‘Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once…
pcuddihy23rd June 2015
The dilemmas of teenage life seem, at the time, to be insurmountable ones that adults just don’t understand. I laugh about it all now, of…
pcuddihy19th March 2015
The 2014 World Cup kicks off on June 12 when hosts Brazil play Croatia. It’s a month of…
pcuddihy29th May 2014
Bloody foreigners … coming over here with their brilliantly-written books and educating and entertaining our children. What are they like? Coming here and forcing their…
pcuddihy25th May 2014
I’ve been reading a book on my mobile phone. Even just writing that sentence jars with me. It’s not right, is it? I’ve accepted that…
pcuddihy14th May 2014
Teachers are great. I might be slightly biased here, given that both my parents were teachers, but I still think they do an invaluable, but…
pcuddihy30th April 2014
I've been invited by one of my writer friends, Helen MacKinven, to take part in a series of blog posts where writers nominate others to answer four…
pcuddihy21st April 2014
Hands up who can remember the good old days of corporal punishment in Scottish schools? If you’re sitting reading this with your arm in the…
pcuddihy2nd April 2014