You might have heard that I recently moved house. I think everyone has heard about the Terribly Long House Move; the move that has taken half a year or more with all the hanging about waiting for this chain and that chain, and oh-my-God-isn’t-buying-a-house-the-longest-thing-ever. People I have never spoken to at work keep making enquiries…
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Twenty Questions I Have Asked Myself Whilst Watching Kids’ TV
Children’s television. Not a day goes past when I don’t wonder whether I have ruined my beloved child for life by plonking him in front of In The Night Garden at ten weeks old in a futile attempt to persuade him that going to beddy-bye-byes before 11pm was a really good idea. Let’s just say…
Dear Men of Instagram: NO
I thought I had seen it all. I thought I had endured the worst that the dating world had to offer. I’d been on every dating website going. I speed dated, I met people through MySpace (remember MySpace!). Hell, I even went to one of those hideous “lock and key” parties that were all the…
Will 2017 be the year I finally make it as a superstar blogger?
I can picture the scene already. Single Mum Speaks, superstar blogger, waving to the adoring masses from a glittery plinth. Being invited onto the breakfast shows of the commercial television networks and arguing on a sofa with Katie Hopkins whilst Holly Willoughby stands by, doing her Sympathetic Worried Face. They say visualise your goals and…
#SchoolsOut linky: Bumper Christmas Edition!
Christmas, I have noticed these past two years, seems to be a time when bloggers slow down, switch off, and concentrate on packing their Instagram feeds full of cosy snapshots of family life-board games, paper hats and long walks in the countryside with children and dogs and festive knitwear. In short, it’s the essence of hygge….
Ignoring the News: Sensible Plan or Foolhardy and Immoral?
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a new obsession. And it’s not good for my mental health. I literally cannot stop reading the Guardian on my phone. The Guardian has not, it has to be said, had a good 2016. First David Bowie died, and then everything else the Guardian holds dear disappeared into a giant…
Parenting: The Olden Days vs Now
Is it normal to have some sort of imposter syndrome about being a parent? Sometimes I’m not sure I can even say I engage in any actual parenting, since I seem to spend most of my time either at work away from my son, or being micro-managed by my mother who seems to think that…
Five Blogging Tips That Are a Load of Old Balls
Every blogger loves a blogging tips post. We absolutely lap it up, seizing on anything with the word “blog” in the title as we scroll through Twitter. And every blogger has written one. Not a day goes by without someone spouting forth their wisdom on what they’ve learned in two weeks of blogging. But sometimes,…
Five Things People Say to Single People That Essentially Translate to “Thank God I’m Not You.”
When it comes to being single, I am the most experienced person I know. Tedious online dates where you get talked at for hours? Check. Turning up to discover a date who is unrecognisable from the photos they posted online? Check. Escaping halfway through because “something bad happened”? Been there too. And the only thing…
Just Another Tear-Streaked Election Post
This morning, as I imagine many others around the world also did, I awoke and reached immediately for my phone. Not, as is my usual custom, to simply turn off the alarm. Not this morning. I don’t generally make a point of going straight onto a news website at 6am. I’m usually more interested in…