Single Mum Cooks: Plum Crumble

It is perhaps on this evening more than any other that I start to feel jealous of retired people.  As I stare bleakly into the gaping chasm of another school year, knowing that from here on, the nights are getting longer, the days colder and my only available “free time” is likely to be spent sleeping-or…

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Why I Don’t Love My Post-Baby Body

When I was pregnant, I paid little heed to my changing shape. As someone who had always been slim, I embraced my growing bump as one would an interesting novelty item.  Something to be enjoyed for its newness and difference, but which would soon be discarded.  As someone who had always been tiny, I loved…

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Kids TV: Then and Now

A while back I happened to notice that the closing credits to CBeebies at 7pm as the time comes to say goodnight have changed.  Suddenly, Topsy and Tim, Sarah and Duck and Chuggington have popped up, and are going to bed (or in Chuggington’s case, the train equivalent) alongside Rastamouse, the Clangers and those talking vegetables…

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Parenting Judgement: I’m All Over It

As a parent, there are many things to fear. Potential abduction, getting lost at the beach and disappearing forever, the dawn of World War III, threadworms…. And those are just the things that you worry about happening to your child. There are also things that you worry are going to happen to YOU, and I don’t…

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Ode to the Summer Holidays

Each year, there is a day which simply cannot be beaten.  A day when you wake up, and feel as though the world is quite literally your oyster.  The sun is shining (sometimes), the birds (usually seagulls) are singing, and the promise of weeks of blissful relaxation, of days spent lounging by a pool drinking…

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Single Mum Cooks: Cheesy courgette pasta

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Single Mum Cooks. I need to stop saying that.  I sound like The Two Ronnies doing a sketch where they wear matching glasses and say goodnight from each other. Anyway, today I am talking about courgettes. Now I like a courgette; however, clearly so do the other…

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Top Ten Cafes to Visit With Kids in Bristol

As any reader of this blog, or person that knows me in real life (I know, can you believe real life people still exist?) will be aware, I love to go to cafes with Piglet.  There’s nothing better than sitting back, relaxing and enjoying a warm latte and a slice of cake while Piglet wrecks…

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Extended Breastfeeding and Parenting Judgement

Before I had a child, there were many things that I thought I would never do.  Bribing my child with biscuits to get them to sit in a pushchair, for one (clearly any child of mine was going to come running from the swings and willingly climb into the pushchair with nothing more than a…

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#Inspire and Flourish

It seems like only five minutes since I wrote a post giving a shout out to my top three favourite new bloggers, but I find myself doing so again, for this month’s #InspireandFlourish with the Less Refined Mind. This time, instead of blogs in general, I wanted to mention some posts which have, um, inspired…

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Single Mum Cooks: Coconut Vegetable Curry

Well hello folks, and welcome to the latest edition of Single Mum Cooks.  This one is that good old classic, Coconut Vegetable Curry, also known as something I just knocked up with whatever ingredients were lying around in the kitchen and needed to be used up. It is a well known fact that I am…

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