I’m quoted in the March edition of Gurgle magazine, talking about the sexy subject of pregnancy leg cramps (see it here). You can read more about my strange pregnancy symptoms in my first and second trimester specials, flashback! The Bump Wear Project, listing my pregnancy essentials (fun fact: Claire from the BWP used to write…
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50 ways to wear it for Comic Relief, with TK Maxx
Can you believe it’s coming up to the 25th Red Nose Day? I can actually remember when it started (how old does that make me feel?). This year the brilliant Stella McCartney has designed a range of t-shirts for the charity, which are currently on sale at TK Maxx. There’s several different designs, from a giraffe…
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How to be a brilliant mummy blogger
A quick post to say I appeared in the November edition of Mother & Baby magazine with some top tips for how to be a brilliant mummy blogger: I give some tips on setting up and running a successful blog, along with some suggestions on getting people to actually read what you’re writing about. It was a fun…
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Baby lions from burp! Boutique
Eliza is a mini person of a million nicknames, but the one that seems to have stuck the most at the moment is Lion (every time I call it her in public within earshot of anyone else, I realise that I’m probably partly responsible for all those threads on mum forums about ridiculous baby names). So…
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Change of a dress
How has your style changed post-baby? Mine is much more casual now, mainly as there’s no real need to dress up for trips to Sainsbury’s, working from home or lying on the floor while a little person uses me as a climbing frame.
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Three things…from this week
As usual, I had grand plans for a million weighty and intellectual posts about, among other things, Mary Berry’s ridiculous and outdated thoughts on maternity leave (arghh! And thanks for forever ruining GBBO for me) the government’s ill-advised and quite frankly terrifying proposals on childcare (double, fearful arghh) and the baby perfume (actually, too hilariously ridiculous…
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What’s your healthy eating IQ? £50 Co-Op voucher giveaway
What’s everyone’s post-baby diet like? When I was pregnant I was really healthy; I ate loads of fruit and veg, drank a lot of water and had three proper meals a day (OK, so I did also develop a sweet tooth and cravings for strawberry milkshake, but you get the gist). But my post-baby daytime…