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Happy Mother’s Day!

Being a mum is in the heart. It doesn’t matter if you have young children or grown up children. Your children are the reason you get up each morning. Every morning. Usually earlier than you’d like. They turn your hair grey with worry. They drive you to distraction with their incessant and often ridiculous demands. […]

Messages to my younger self

I decided to look back at the most life changing moments in my life over the past 20 years and record messages to myself at those times. In 1997 I was just about to take my GCSEs. In 2002 I was getting ready to leave university. In 2005 I was considering leaving dental nursing but […]

End of an era (and peace and quiet) (Tuesday 21st March)

  I’ve made the big decision to stop breastfeeding Zach during the day. I have been quite lazy and enjoyed a relaxing sit down with my book twice a day. But I’m not doing him any favours, he needs to learn to get himself to sleep during the day in the same way that he […]

So…what do I want for Mother’s Day?

Big question. Let’s DITCH Mother’s Day isn’t going to happen. So, what do I want for Mother’s Day this year? A lie in with my book and cup of tea Pizza A nap Peace and harmony, instructions followed first time or even no prompting required Diamond earrings Reality of my list: I feel terribly guilty […]

Let’s DITCH Mother’s Day!

Grump alert! Scrooge here! OK so let’s get this straight. I love my mum (and my dad, this applies to Father’s Day too). But I would rather show her that regularly how much I appreciate her than on one day a year force her to have a present she doesn’t really want and accept a […]