A Year in the Life of a Playground Mother Quotes

“That’s the difference, a true friend is happy for you no matter what you do and what you have and quite frankly I didn’t have the time for meaningless conversations or friendships that drained me of my energy.”
― Christie Barlow, A Year in the Life of a Playground Mother

“By my reckoning we are only on this planet for an average of seventy years so what’s the point wasting time on people you don’t really want or need in your lives?”
― Christie Barlow, A Year in the Life of a Playground Mother

“There was one thing I detested in life and it wasn’t just the arrival of unwanted visitors”
― Christie Barlow, A Year in the Life of a Playground Mother

“So far, I’d been shoplifting, played detective, got chucked out of a friend’s house and been touched up by a bloody frisky pensioner all in the space of twelve weeks. Marvellous! Could my year get any worse?”
― Christie Barlow, A Year in the Life of a Playground Mother

“The worst thing about being a teacher is the mothers. These mothers think they know more than the experts, they think they know what’s best.”
― Christie Barlow, A Year in the Life of a Playground Mother

“These people were no more than my acquaintances; the women I had the unfortunate pleasure of crossing skipping ropes with on a daily basis. The worst breed of humans that one could meet – primary school mothers – better known to the likes of you and me as the Playground Mafia.”
― Christie Barlow, A Year in the Life of a Playground Mother

“God put you on this earth to take the crap away from the rest of us “Normaltons” who wouldn’t be able to cope with these nutters.”
― Christie Barlow, A Year in the Life of a Playground Mother