So, you want to be a writer?

I have become obsessed with my blog stats. And they are not improving. At the end of last year-New Year’s Eve, to be precise-I was Mumsnet’s blog of the day.  That’s it, I thought, I’m on the up now.  EVERYONE will know my work and I will be universally feted.  I will be a single…

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My Top Five Toys, by Piglet

5. Fire engines. There was this one time that Mummy took me into a charity shop.  I think she was hoping that she would find vintage clothes in there.  Mummy likes vintage clothes, even though they are old and smelly.  Personally I prefer not to wear clothes at all, but for some reason Mummy seems…

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Having a Baby: How I Have Changed

There are many ways that having a baby changes you. For example, it makes you look like a bag lady.  This was an actual term that one of my colleagues used, as I wandered into work one chilly morning, bundled up in my Mum Parka and my Mum Trainers.  The old me would not have done…

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Cake: A Review

I have heard it said many times that the Queen Mother’s nickname in her heyday was Cake. And I love Cake.  I once bumped into her, in fact, before she died, on one of the most significant days of my life. I had just finished my university finals and was sat there, wearing my uniform…

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Things not to tell my younger self

I quite often see blog posts and articles with headings about what you wish you had told your younger self. They invariably talk about how you shouldn’t worry, and how it will all be all right in the end. But what if it isn’t all right in the end?  What if the thing you want…

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The Blogging Wars

It’s SLRs at dawn, the Macbooks are drawn.  The cutesy blogging planners are sharpened.  The oversized drinking jars of paleo courgettini kale smoothies are gearing up for the battle to end all battles, it’s….. The Blogging Wars: Positive Bloggers vs. Keeping it Real It seems that parenting bloggers fall into one of two camps: those…

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New Year, New Me? Let’s wind the clock back, and look at the evidence…

I am eternally grateful to fellow blogger Mum Turned Mom for inspiring me to write something. As it is new year, obviously I have a few *unofficial* resolutions (I gave up the official kind after failing to fulfil the “get a boyfriend” one that was a staple feature for about 15 years running), none of which I…

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Life: Perfectly Instagrammed?

This is a nice photo. Everything on Instagram is nice.  Sometimes I almost think I could be a photographer, or at least someone with a lovely lifestyle blog full of beautiful soft-focus shots of their immaculate home full of spotless white furniture and inspirational quotes. However, as we all know, life doesn’t come packaged up…

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Dear Mum-to-Be, here is my rubbish advice

Recently, a friend of mine announced that she was expecting. It made me think, if I could go back and speak to myself in those hideous, anxiety-ridden, nauseating thrilling days of early pregnancy, what would I say?  What sage snippets of wisdom would I have to impart? I came up with the answer today while…

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“That’s Not A Baby’s Name.”

What’s in a name? That is the question that every expectant parent inevitably asks themselves. I recently received a blog comment from someone who was clearly trying to troll me by implying I was a terrible mother for calling my child Piglet.  Because clearly Piglet is his actual name.  Yes sheeple, I wanted something unique…something…

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