We’ve just sold our house. It took eight days. I'm still in shock. We’ve just found a house to buy. That was even more nerve wracking. Our buyer is in a hurry to get the process started so we’ve had just a few days to find and bag one we like. In the end it…
Not yet
- Why don’t you write about her Mummy? - Not yet. I’m still too sad. It still hurts too much. I will do. Soon. When it’s not so raw. It still hurts. And yet here I am, writing about her. Or about the loss of her. I keep seeing her everywhere. The absence of her…
Forget counting calories, it’s all about the fibre
Forget counting calories, it’s all about the fibre Well, kinda. I’m nearly finished reading the excellent: 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Colleen and have learned so much from this book. In a nutshell, we are only 10% human. The other 90% is a colony of…
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How to survive the Furious Fours (kinda)
It’s been a truly horrible morning. Who knew that buttoning a cardigan could cause so much anger, frustration and distress? But it can when there’s a four-and-a-half-year-old involved. At least when it’s my four-and-a-half-year-old. My daughter is going through what I’m optimistically referring to as a ‘phase’. We’ve had the Terrible Twos and The Threenagers.…
A mother’s CV
Mummy Curriculum vitae PERSONAL STATEMENT Dedicated, hard-working and supremely adaptable individual seeks more credit for doing a bloody hard job seven days a week. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Leadership: skilled in growing, educating, nurturing, managing and caring for two small human beings. Able to make tough decisions: knowing when to abort much-looked-forward-to day out in favour of…
Boys don’t cry
Boys don’t cry. Any boy-mama knows this isn’t true. My 5-year-old son cries with the best of them. And I’m cool with that. But does it stop being OK for your boy to cry as he gets older? And if it does, when does that happen and why? Radio 4’s Soul Music programme yesterday focused…
MIND THE gender pay GAP
Does Carrie Gracie resigning from her £135K BBC job have anything to do with you and me? Carrie Gracie, former China editor for the BBC, recently quit her post and took demotion when she discovered her male equivalents earn 50% more than her. So what? Yes, it’s hard to empathise with someone who’s resigned from…
