• Reading the small print…the hidden perils of your child learning to read

    May 2, 2018

    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…

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  • Can You Take Your Children To A Smear Test?

    April 18, 2018

    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…

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  • Do Your Children Believe In The Easter Bunny?

    April 5, 2018

    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…

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  • The blog is dead…long live the blog? Ten reasons why it’s still queen to me

    March 29, 2018

    Is blogging dead? First off, an apology. This is a blog post about, well, blogging. So if you’re 100% not interested in this then here are some posts about interiors, parenting and London instead. Secondly, for anyone who’s still here (anyone?!) The blog is dead, right? Dead and buried. Apparently so. But is blogging dead…really?…

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  • Parenting; You’re Doing It Wrong (And a trip to the BBC)

    March 7, 2018

    The You’re Doing It Wrong Podcast – And A Trip To The BBC Have you heard of the You’re Doing It Wrong podcast? Also – how easy is it to parent in an age when there are a million different sources of advice, all of it conflicting, all coming at you from hundreds of different…

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  • Five cold hard truths about parenting on snow days

    March 2, 2018

    Here are five truths about parenting on snow days… As the country is currently in the grips of SNOWMAGEDDON, aka the Beast from the East aka Storm Emma aka alll the weather from the past fifty winters all come at once, what better subject is there than parenting on snow days? (Seriously, has anyone talked…

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  • Hello, and a couple of things…

    February 22, 2018

    Firstly, hello! I just wanted to say, well, that really, and do a kind of awkward wave via a blog post. And secondly, say apologies for the unintentional blog break and blog post drought…it just kind of happened towards the end of last year when everything got really really busy in the run-up to Christmas…

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