You Can’t Make Friends Bearing Rich Teas, or, Biscuits are the Mum’s Masonic Handshake
Coffee mornings – that’s all we mums do, isn’t it? According to outsiders, that is. But, there is a grain of truth in it…
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Pants Paralysis, or, Can You Take a Buggy Into Ann Summers?
OK, so I’ve more or less lost my baby weight. The baby’s given up the boob, so I’ve lost the nursing bras. But I…
Read MoreBehind Every Great Woman Is A Great List: I Won’t be List-less This Christmas
If my list and I left the house together, we’d be unstoppable. My levels of organisation would know no parallel. My life would lilt…
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How Not to Bake, or Having His Cake and Eating It Is A Child’s Right
Mary Berry would weep. I bake so seldom (once a year, per kid) that I have to buy all new ingredients each time in…
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Trick or Treat? When Chocolate Goes Fright Night
There are few things more frightening than having something unexpected in your mouth. So imagine my horror when I gleefully popped in a segment…
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The Bile High Club – New Lows in Flying High. Only Parents Need Apply
Five hours in, I was feeling pretty chuffed. We’d broken the back of this flight. Only a paltry two hours to go, and the…
Read MoreRace Against the Plop – Multi-Tasking Gone Potty
Your child is happily engaged in an activity – it’s action stations! In the next four to five minutes, you have your chance to…
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Oh October – Season of Shin-Rot! The Return of the Ugg
I can’t hold off any longer – it’s cold, it’s wet, it’s Ugg time. As the weather’s turned, I’ve been toying with the idea…
Read MoreKnee-High Ninjas – How Babies Get You Where It Hurts
I was standing at the hob today with my baby by my feet, when suddenly I felt what can only be described as a…
Read MoreThe Battle of Bologna(ise) – Or A Surprising Way to Get Your Kids to Eat
It was when I started crying over a cookery book in Waterstones that I realised I needed to try harder with my children’s meals….
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