One of those parenting ‘things’ people always talk about is at what point it – as in general, parenting, mum and dad life – gets slightly easier. In the park recently with some friends we’d not seen since we all had babies, we were talking about when toddlers go from being just walking, newly curious and…
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Wooden mobiles of wonder from We Are Scamp
Read moreWe will, at some point, be moving both girls into the same room in our house. Although it’s still a plan at the moment – it seems like such a huge step – I’m looking out for things for their new joint room that are similar but also individual. So I really liked these personalised…
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Mother’s ruin; a guide to the horrors of the post-pregnancy hangover
Read moreMother’s ruin…here’s a guide to the horrors of the post-pregnancy hangover… The post-pregnancy hangover…a guide Oh, the whole world of pain that is the post-pregnancy hangover… After years of practice throughout my teens and twenties, I thought I knew hangovers. Ha! I was wrong. One of the less well-known pregnancy side effects is that you turn…
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Everything I’ve completely forgotten about baby weaning
Read moreIf feeding your child is an act of love then weaning is a messy, messy affair. Quite literally. My new default position is down on the floor, sweeping up bits of discarded food. “Mummy, why are you under the table?” Eliza asks curiously, as Florence grins. I was pretty apprehensive about weaning first-time-round as it seemed…
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The mother law, or why we’re always late
Read moreThe mother law: everything that can possibly go wrong just before you’re due to leave the house with small children, does. Leaving the house pre-children is really, really easy; I laugh now at how easy it was. It involves a) making sure you have your phone, bag and keys and b) walking out of the…
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The six stages of cinema-going
Read moreWhat was the first film you saw at the cinema? Mine was a Disney classic re-release like Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. I must have been around six. It was at the old-school style cinema in our local small town, with velvet fold-up seats and an interval where ice-cream was served. And also…what was…
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Busy mum, and other phrases I’d change in the parenting dictionary
Read moreI read the news this morning that the Scrabble dictionary is being updated with slang and more modern terms. While I doubt I’d actually have the brain capacity for a game of Scrabble right now – is zzZZz a word? Oh, the lolz – I’m always interested in these types of news around language. Especially because…