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February 14, 2019 Annie

An Honest Conversation with: Rachel Ridler

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I've been mulling over another feature I'd like to start on the blog and I would love to know your thoughts. I thought about calling it 'I wish more people would talk about...' but actually I think perhaps there are some topics which are talked about a lot but there's not enough actual conversation. So, 'I wish there was more conversation about...' is going to be an opportunity to start talking and keep talking. My blog is already a constant honest, vulnerable, conversation about things I'd love to chat about more so I'd love to use this feature to invite others into that space, to give opportunity for others to chat honestly too. Are there things you'd love to see chatted about? Are there things you would love the opportunity to write about? 
An experience perhaps? Something you'd love to share because you think it would help others? I’m thinking any topic at all from flexible working to endometriosis, post-partum bodies to loneliness. You name it, we can talk about it. Some posts might be long, some might be short. Perhaps even just a few questions or thoughts to spark conversation. Who wants to get a conversation started?
Well today we reached a parenting rite of passage. The dreaded head-lice. I came out of a funeral meeting to a voicemail from nursery suggesting I might like to pick some stuff up as they had seen some eggs on Big bro’s head. In Tesco, feeling a bit overwhelmed at all the options, I text my lovely neighbour asking if she had a comb we could borrow as they’d run out (plus a P.S. sorry if we’ve passed on the nits text!) Turns out the combs come in the boxes with the treatment but once you’ve got school aged kids you’ve probably got a treatment stash so we borrowed what we needed and got to work. I’d tried to explain to Big bro on the way home what we were going to be doing. We ended up talking about the bugs who’d created a city in his hair. He paused and said, ‘this is pretend though?’ Sadly not buddy. So, as we combed and removed the little blighters (not just eggs 🤢) he named each one. Julia, Julian, David, Annie, Pete, [Big bro], [Little bro].... the eggs were Seth, Erin & Miles, and then he asked to keep them. When I explained he couldn’t he got very sad that I’d destroyed their city (a bit like Joshua and the battle of Jericho 😂 except no one is moving in to this promised land of hair). @petewillmot and I have combed our hair. I’ve found none but I am seriously itchy now. I have so many childhood memories of having my hair combed with conditioner to check for nits and now I’m at the other end of the comb. Parenthood is full of fun jobs.

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