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Starting in a family in your early twenties – When your friends start to catch up

For a long time, it’s been just us doing the family thing among our friends. Whilst I often longed to have a friend or two who were at a similar stage in life,…

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Starting School (and Preschool) | A few things I Want to Remember

It wasn’t me that Rory cried for at the preschool gates – it was his brother. After an inseparable summer together, Arlo clock-watched from the minute his short day at…

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Things I learned during my first post-children weekend away with friends

I have this fantasy that runs through my head in the middle of the night when things get particularly fraught with the kids’ sleep. Imagine if I got up, left…

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My ‘Year of Me’

At the cusp of the new year, Twitter and the ‘blogosphere’ was full of talk about people’s chosen words for the year ahead – a word to focus on as…

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Dear South London mum

I wrote this reflecting, mainly, on my first year after having Arlo. I don’t really feel like this any more, but, as usual with most things, I find that it’s…

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Tips for self-employment / working from home with no childcare in place

As well as my photography business, I am a freelance writer, and I also offer SEO and social media advice and management, and a bit of design work here and…

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Mummy Blogger is a derogatory term

Three years ago, after I just started this blog, all the talk on Twitter was about Cybermummy – an upcoming conference for mums that blog. As someone with an aversion to…

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I remember (A series of memories on breastfeeding in public)

I remember the first time I breastfed you around anyone other than the midwives and your dada – We were all sat around the sofa during the first visits from…

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Kirstie Allsopp and ‘having it all’ as a woman

When I was 18, I had an life plan. I wanted to have found ‘the one’, get married, and be in a position to start having a family by age…

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Starting in a family in your early twenties – When your friends start to catch up

Starting School (and Preschool) | A few things I Want to Remember

Things I learned during my first post-children weekend away with friends

My ‘Year of Me’

Dear South London mum

Tips for self-employment / working from home with no childcare in place

Mummy Blogger is a derogatory term

I remember (A series of memories on breastfeeding in public)

Kirstie Allsopp and ‘having it all’ as a woman

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