Why I’m not watching Love Island
Almost daily I am asked whether I watch Love Island. When I say no, they try to get me tell them that I do really watch it, but don’t want to admit it. Again, when I say no they tell me I don’t know what […]
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But first, coffee…
Supporting independent local businesses Beautiful packaging Coffee These are a few of my favourite things, which meant that element coffee was always going to be a perfect match for me, really. Coffee is not a luxury in my house, it is a necessity. Being a […]
Why the responses to #metoo didn’t shock me as much as intended.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will be aware of the cases against Harvey Weinstein, a heralded film and tv producer, stacking up on both sides of the Atlantic. Sports stars are being arrested for sexual assault left, right and centre and now […]
An alternative Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day everyone, or Mothering Sunday if you’re the traditional type! I hope you’ve all managed to get a lie in (what that means with the clocks going forward I don’t actually know), some version of breakfast in bed and have been presented with […]
Road Trip to the National Space Centre
Charlotte and I had a well deserved day out yesterday. We had nothing planned for the weekend and, because Charlotte’s theme at school is Space and because we’ve watched, what seems like 101 experiments with Tim Peake and Chris Hadfield on YouTube over the past […]
Dropping the F-bomb.
I’m holding my hands up…I’m a sweary mum. I TRY my hardest to keep it clean whilst Charlotte is around but if some knobhead (oops) cuts me up in traffic I am likely to call him (or her) out on it at high volume and […]
Picking up the pieces.
When a boy broke my heart in college I remember my mum came and gave me big hugs whilst I cried myself to sleep.I was on summer holidays so I moped around feeling sorry for myself for a few days, talking to friends about what […]
Walking on the tight rope.
Mental health is a bitch. It is a reactive, sensitive balancing act that, for some, seems like no problem at all and for others can be a precarious tight rope walk, just waiting to fall and hoping there is a net somewhere deep below. I […]
The yin and yang of meal planning.
This morning I had the luxury of dropping Charlotte off at school and having a day free. This must be what those mums feel like! Normally I run home, hop in the car and pelt it to work but I have another couple of days […]
Sayonara 2016, welcome 2017.
Happy new year everyone. I hope you had a good one last night, whatever that may mean. Despite being childfree, I spent the evening at my best friends house and drank absolutely nothing. I got back home just as Big Ben chimed on the car […]