Learning to live with a lack of sleep
A few months back, Sam said something that stopped me in my tracks. We were discussing, for the umpeenth time no doubt, our older children’s appalling sleep habits, and the…
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What happened when I turned 30
We haven’t really ‘done’ presents for each other in the last five years. But this year, I was keen to maximise my window of opportunity – big birthday, stable finances, an…
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Eleven days alone
Eleven days alone. …Not that I was counting or anything. When Sam’s away, life becomes a series of numbers. Days counted down until his return on a calendar in my…
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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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Why the sanitary pad man is my new life guru
Have you read the article from a couple of months ago about Arunachalam Muruganantham and his revolutionary sanitary pad invention? It reads like a Hollywood screenplay – a man dedicating…
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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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Never be the only person who can do something – a breastfeeding mother’s dilemma
Note: After a very detailed comment on this post, it has come to my attention that what I have written could be seen as insensitive. Since then I have been…
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