Lindsay Woods: 'I have found this summer particularly challenging'

In less than a week, my children, like yours, will return to school. I’m going to get the obvious out of the way and say that I have found this summer particularly challenging, writes Lindsay Woods.

There are so many elements of the summer holidays which I adore; the lack of a routine, no alarms to set, the fact that you can chuck an entire watermelon to your children outside and call it ‘lunch’. I have been lucky enough to be at home with my children to fling said fruity meals at them. But, therein lies the rub; in being lucky, I have also been unlucky in that I have had to spend every, waking moment with them. For an entire eight weeks.