Sex and the City, the ground-breaking TV programme EVERYONE loved, was first shown on our screens 20 years ago. How crazy is that?! Doesn’t it seem like getting older is just one long opportunity to repeatedly make yourself feel ancient, especially when it comes to popular culture that you’d swear was released yesterday but is…

Two eternal questions about motherhood: Why is it so hard to leave the house with small children? (Here is my previous exploration of the topic) And… Is school – where you to have your child there on time, every day, for the rest of your foreseeable life, *sob* – a feat of impossible endurance sent…

We Pay A Visit To Down House, The Historical Home Of Charles Darwin Here’s What We Thought Of Down House – And A Tip For All Parents (Based On My Terrifying Experience!) We paid a visit to Down House, which is the historical home of Bromley ‘celeb’ Charles Darwin. The house – and beautiful gardens…

Would You Take Your Children To The Cinema? We weight up the cinematic odds of taking young children to the cinema… When’s the best time to go to the cinema with children? In a dramatic turn of events; we went to the cinema last week. Together, as in me and Alex together together, shock horror.…

Your child learning to read is one of the most magical moments of motherhood. It’s a major milestone, right up there with the first steps, them saying your name and the giddy wonder of when they actually sleep longer than five hours in a row. It’s a gift for life, it’s independence, it’s a whole…

Can You Take Your Children To A Smear Test? So, can you take your children to a smear test? I find out the complicated way. Because I can be both badly organised and also extremely forgetful (tell me; does this never go away?) I somehow ended up accidentally booking in my recent smear test on…

Do your children believe in the Easter Bunny? Well, do your children believe in the Easter bunny? Asking for, well, someone who’s not quite sure how it happened, but whose children really do. As in, think the Easter Bunny is an actual ‘thing’, a real-life entity, akin to Father Christmas, who stealthily delivers eggs in…