I want to preface this by saying we are a vaccinating family: that is something I have thought long and hard about and I’m absolutely happy with my decision. I stopped engaging in conversations about whether or not I should be a vaccination mum a long time ago. All my children are up to date […]
The moany one.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this blog and what it is still okay to say on it. I was thinking today about voice and lost mojo and keeping up appearances and stiff upper lips and not going on about stuff and being brave and life goes on ish and how, because the girls […]
Countdown to Christmas.
This week I have realised with horror that all my Christmas sparkle has totally disappeared. I have no idea what to buy my children, I have nothing I want, there is nothing we need (except more time and money and you can’t buy either of those!) and Christmas is sneaking up so fast that I […]
What would I do with £100,000? #ad
Do you remember being small and dreaming of a million pounds, the endless riches that would bring, the countless riches that would be? Such riches. And then, growing up, inflation, reality and now, the horrible realisation that even if I had One. Million.Pounds it would only actually just cover the cost of the lovely small […]
On Beauty: The Dove Legacy Campaign. #FeelBeautifulFor
Her life – and motherhood for me – began with beauty. “She has a little problem with her mouth,” they said – and handed me my firstborn with a blanket across her face. Within hours, almost before I had had time to meet her, my room was filled with pictures of other babies, other children […]
My Life. My Decision.
Five years ago, I pissed plenty of people off by screaming repeatedly about the injustices that were about to be served on my community by the Labour government at the time. We wanted people to know the charges being raised against us and so we shouted. We tried to make people hear that we were […]
Taking care.
This was a weekend for reasserting myself and regrouping. Taking down time to be outside and enjoying the fragments of beauty I have in my space. Spending time with myself and chewing over what isn’t right at the moment. Building some friendships. I’ve run a lot. I passed a milestone today in running 24/26 minutes, […]
Baggage and depression. It's all in the edit.
We all have our baggage. We all walk out the doors some days with a spot on our chin, feeling fat, frumpy, uninteresting and small. Our clothes fit wrong and we haven’t achieved what we want and the kids are cross and worrying us and we’ve not written the novel in our head or got […]
Gendered Play. It's just an observation.
I’m bringing up a boy. It’s new to me (more or less) and he’s different. I have no idea if he is a typical boy, or atypical or where he fits in in the grand scheme of play. I’ve only watched girls closely before and my experience of boys (many of whom I know pretty […]
Oh, lovely girl.
Oh… Peaches. You were off my radar when you were a wild child. I didn’t know that bit of you. But recently, after your spirited defence of attachment parenting, I found you on IG. We exchanged a word or two. I smiled at your pictures, of the love and fierce joy that shined out of […]
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