Hello and welcome to Part 2 of Single Mum Cooks. Yes folks, it’s another RECIPE, straight from the mouth of me. You can all breathe easy. I have not written another lengthy political rant, nor is the title some sort of attempt at doing one of those dance tracks where they ruin two great songs…
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My Favourite Bloggers
I try not to spend too much time blogging about blogging. I find it all a bit weird and meta, and of no interest to anyone except other bloggers. And anyway, if truth be told, other people write those posts far better than I do. I will not be telling you how to monetise your…
Five Things I Swore I Would Never Do When I Had a Child
There were many things I swore I would never do before I had a baby. Most of them were things that other people did that unintentionally annoyed me, as someone who was desperate for a baby, and as a member of the public frequently forced to take public transport. Others were merely naive reflections of…
What do you do in your “Me Time”?
At the beginning of this week I found myself in the unprecedented position of having no less than two days to myself. That’s right, time to myself: Me Time. No work, no childcare duties, no nothing.
Poor Mummy
I never used to be ill. I was one of those people for whom making it through a school year without taking a day off was both a source of pride, and a regular occurrence. Then I had a baby.
We Must Not Let The Media Tell Us What to Think
The other day, I read an article which made me sad. You can read the original, about how Kelvin MacKenzie, a former editor of the Sun newspaper, saw fit to publicly (in the Sun) criticise Channel 4 news simply for having a presenter who happened to be Muslim-and by virtue of her wearing a…
Motherhood and Creativity
I never really thought of myself as creative. I was a bookish child, the sort who memorised the books my mother read me and “read them aloud” to myself at the age of two. I excelled in English and the Humanities. I once wrote a poem that was so good my teacher thought I had…
Breakfast and Brunch Recipe: Huevos Rancheros
Yes, I’ve gone and done it. I’ve added a RECIPE. Just call me Deliciously Ella. A little morsel of deliciousness from me to you. You’re welcome. Mock ye not, for here is my recipe. It is…. it is…..a version of huevos rancheros, a not very original Single Mum Speaks Mexican-style brunch special. Well, presumably. I’ve…
Caravan Holidays: Bucolic Idyll or Hell on Earth?
During my childhood and teenage years, I went on more than my fair share of caravan holidays. There was a time in the mid-90s when I probably could have named every Haven holiday park in the country. And believe me there were a lot of them.
Life: Viewed Through a Phone?
A while back I found myself discussing my morning commute to work with a friend of my mother’s. “Ah, you must have seen the whale!” she said. Whale? I’m pretty sure there were no whales on the track. I had images of great hulking plastic whales sticking out of the roofs of houses in the trendier…