All Grown Up by Fiona Gibson

All Grown Up by Fiona Gibson is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I’ve just finished writing a book. Hurrah! *Punches air! That’s the feeling I get - a kind of dizzying ‘what do I do now?’ sensation which can also be a little weird, after months spent huddled over the laptop. But I can’t deny that it’s also very pleasant.

All Grown Up by Fiona Gibson I'm an author of 20+ novels and former editor of Just Seventeen and more! magazines. This is my weekly Friday column about life, stuff and all sorts! No thanks

All Grown Up by Fiona Gibson is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I think a lot of us are guilty of this. Of viewing ‘old people’ things in a certain light. Things like bingo, American tan hosiery and those plastic rain hats that fold up tiny. And the bus pass, as we have in Scotland. The over 60s travelcard which means free bus travel all over the country.

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All Grown Up by Fiona Gibson is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Jimmy and I are off to Ikea. As we head across the car park towards the world’s biggest selection of food bag sealing clips, I make a firm decision. Today we will do Ikea not Jimmy’s way - but my way. I should explain that I love Ikea and find it fun. And Jimmy most definitely does not find it fun.

All Grown Up by Fiona Gibson I'm an author of 20+ novels ex-editor of Just Seventeen and more! magazines. I loved the freedom and fun of writing my columns in more!, Red and the Sunday Herald - and Substack feels a little like that No thanks

All Grown Up by Fiona Gibson is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Last week I wrote about accompanying my photographer dad on his various missions. I’d pass him various bits of equipment - but mainly my purpose was to mooch about in front of a building to give a sense of scale. Arduous work, right? And without unionisation or pay! But I didn’t mind really because it was fun hanging out with Dad.

All Grown Up by Fiona Gibson is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts please consider becoming a subscriber Of course I know my dad is a person and not just Dad. I know he’s clever and interesting and has many interests and passions. But it took a day, a couple of weeks ago, to remind me that Dad’s working life was a huge part of who he is. That it meant far more to him than merely being a way of earning money to keep us.