Learner Dad: 'Do you get men on the parent WhatsApp groups at school, or is it just the women?'

Pat Fitzpatrick on home-grown spuds, the unofficial WhatsApp parenting groups, bringing sniffly kids to school and Christmas on the way
Learner Dad: 'Do you get men on the parent WhatsApp groups at school, or is it just the women?'

There are many unofficial WhatsApp parenting groups springing up at the school gates. Picture: Stock image

WE cooked some of the potatoes my wife grew out the back, the other night. They weren’t great. I didn’t say so at the time, because honesty isn’t always the best policy. My wife is nothing if not a straight talker though and admitted they weren’t up to much. The kids took one bite and made a face. This is sad in a way because new potatoes were a huge thing for Irish people who grew up in the '70s and '80s. That’s probably because, back then the spuds we’d been eating every day since March had tasted like warm wax. Our kids are used to decent spuds all year round, eating foreign varieties like Maris Piper that would have you shot for being pro-British in the 1980s. They have no time for floury Golden Wonders, preferring a nice 'soapy' spud like their Dad.

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