The Mummy Tightrope
Most of the time, I’m a Mumbot – a mummy on autopilot. The business of parenting kids is so, well, busy, that I just…
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The Favour Bank
Favours are the currency of mums. If you’re a mum in a fix, another mum will help you out. Even if she hardly knows…
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The JoyMometer
My children bring me utmost joy. But do I enjoy my children? To calculate how many minutes a day I enjoy being a mum,…
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Playdate Pariahs
The more kids you have, the less welcome you are. Or is that just us? However much you like us, why would you invite…
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Do Your Kids Ruin Your Vids?
If one kid is doing something video-worthy, the other will be in mortal danger. Or, at the very least, fighting, screaming, running in front…
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The Shouting Bra, and Other Mummy Essentials
You can’t command respect naked. Not even from your kids. Hence, I propose a Mumswear diffusion line, starting with The Shouting Bra and the…
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The Nativity: Diarygate
If nativities are not the point of being a parent, I don’t know what is. Never mind the wondrous day of their birth, their…
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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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