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Big Changes.

September 3, 2016 by

I’ve thought of myself as a home educator for years, even recently when the kids were in and out of school, though “home educator at heart” is, probably quite rightly, sniffed at by pure home educators. But it was how I felt, my life has been kid centric, both family and educational provision, for 18 […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Thinking Tagged With: career, change, coaching, life, mid-life crisis

A mother’s day.

March 7, 2016 by

I watched Mother’s Day drift past yesterday with a sort of wry amusement; 17 years on from my first, I’ve long got over the fact that if you build it up as a day where you expect a combination of the most thoughtless elements of the house (children) combined with the least slushy and demonstrative […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Thinking

A day in London for friendship with bonus mental health tests.

November 5, 2015 by

The radio silence this summer has mostly been me working my way through a pit of mental health issues that I felt too ashamed to write about. I’m probably not ready to do so yet, but perhaps it is more appropriate to start blogging again and allude to the ways I’m trying to manage them […]

Filed Under: Thinking, Trips Out

Lost me again.

August 16, 2015 by

There was a time when I sat here and splurged out my feelings and our comings and goings and doings. The internet used to be a safe place to do so, relatively speaking. There were days when I could splurge out my feelings and make reference obliquely to things that were going on where I […]

Filed Under: Thinking Tagged With: blogging, depression, loss of self

For fear of living dangerously.

April 29, 2015 by

The last plane ride I took involved me not quite sobbing for most of the journey and actually weeping for some of it, while simultaneously trying to calm Fran who kept panicking that the call button chime meant disaster was imminent and quell Amelie who wanted detailed explanations of the emergency procedures sign plastered 5 […]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Thinking Tagged With: affording overseas holidays, fear of flying, first choice holidays, going abroad, lanzarote

Sunny side up.

March 10, 2015 by

I’m finding it pretty hard to see the wood for the trees at the moment. I’m trading my time for money in a way that is necessary but not wildly fulfilling and not contributing anything other than 7 large tummy sustaining funds to the future. I want to build something bright and exciting and instead […]

Filed Under: Thinking

On role models & International Women's Day.

March 8, 2015 by

I’m the daughter of an empowered woman. She’s a professor, a researcher, someone who made her life the way she chose it. I’m the grand daughter of an empowered woman, of her generation. An equal marriage, an earner as well as a mother and housewife, someone still living independently at nearly 90, someone who has […]

Filed Under: Thinking Tagged With: #LikeAGirl, #ThisGirlCan, bringing up girls, feminism, girls, international womens day, sexism, team sca

She's that certain age.

January 14, 2015 by

I turned 41 this week. That’s well into the ‘I can remember my mum and dad being 41’ realms of “oh my dragons, I’m old” band, right along side, “this means I am 7 years younger than my mum was when I made her a granny” (SHRIEK). 41 is okay. It’s better than dead, anyway, […]

Filed Under: Thinking Tagged With: being old, birthday, growing old

Making Christmas.

December 7, 2014 by

I don’t really want Christmas this year. Not in the same way that the last 4 Christmases have been their own tiny version of hell (I can’t believe this is our 5th Christmas without Freddie any more than I can believe it 3rd Christmas with Bene) but in a glum way, a dissatisfied with what […]

Filed Under: Christmas Crafts, Family Life, Thinking Tagged With: Christmas decorations, depression, family, grief, making time, mindfulness

The things you do. Or I do, in this case.

December 5, 2014 by

I wrote a few months ago about how I was leaving our businesses behind to work on my own income stream. I know you’ve seen evidence of it and I’m sorry if it can be annoying at times. I’m doing my best to make it manageable and I’m very grateful to people who reliably comment […]

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