Kelly Cates

I hate it so much.

The thing is, if you go through that, you can actually make really good friends and you can have really nice chats with people you look forward to seeing.

But I hate that middle bit with all my heart.

I hate that kind of just surfacy, generic.

Good morning, is it?

Is it, Bob?

Is it a good morning?

Maybe for you, but I'm standing here freezing my bollocks off on a side of a hockey pitch.

It's okay if they do booze.

But it's really awkward because my youngest daughter, she's got a group of friends and I know all the mums and they're really lovely and all the parents there are great.

But my eldest daughter's got a group of friends, but she started secondary school in COVID.

So there weren't really any of those.

You didn't go and wait at the school gate.

You didn't really go.

So I don't really know.

the sort of parents in her year group the same.

And then that makes me feel like I've been a bad parent.

Because then I'm like, maybe I should have got involved more.

And then I see other people and I'm like, they've managed to get to know people.

So either they were fully disregarding all the COVID restrictions, in which case they're terrible people, or they've managed to make friends despite all the restrictions, in which case they're better parents than I am.