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First Cinema Trip: “No More Mummy”

I am not a keen cinema-goer. The last time I attended any sort of cinema was on a school trip around eighteen months ago, and the time before that I cannot even remember, but I suspect that it was to see Marley and Me, a tale of schmaltz starring an improbably youthful-looking Jennifer Aniston and…

So you’re thinking about being a single mother by choice….

Recently, I have been asked what advice I have to give to those embarking on the journey of becoming a single mother by choice. It’s always difficult to impart pearls of wisdom to other people, who may well be in completely different circumstances to your own, but here are a few little snippets I wish…

Win tickets for Cardiff Speedway 2017

Piglet has many interests that I do not share. Jumping off the side of the sofa with a primal yell as he lunges at Mummy with all the energy of a WWE wrestler in full flight is one of them. Car transporters is another. And buses, and racing cars and…well everything with wheels really. Which…

Trying not to be bitter, but failing miserably

Another year rolls around. Another year that I have not yet won a blogging award. Totally unreasonable, I know. And in its wake come the Poor Me posts. The wails of the parent blogging community. Why not me? Why not me? The posts that pretend they don’t care about blog awards, that they’re all a…

Choosing a Primary School

Piglet is a summer baby. Apparently this means he is statistically at an academic disadvantage, but coming from one who started primary school several weeks behind the Autumn-born children, and who spent the earliest part of my (still continuing) years in education seething with rage that they were on the higher level reading books thanks…

When There Are No Words, There Are Always Dancing Penguins

It is 8.20pm, and Piglet is not asleep. Instead, he is breastfeeding. We have returned home from a day out which ended with a two hour nap (for Piglet, not me), eaten dinner and watched the end of Happy Feet. Happy Feet is a nice story, although I am disappointed that the portion I watch…

Diary of a Bedtime

“You were sleeping through by his age!” My mother’s words, uttered at regular intervals since my son turned three months old, are reaching a fever pitch. My son is almost three. He is still not “sleeping through.” OK, that is a slight lie. He has slept through, at least once, but to do so on…

The Joy of Lazy Days

Half term. That frenzied time when you have one week to catch up on all those little jobs; the niggling bits of life admin that have a tendency to creep up on you until they make up a to-do list longer than your arm. Yet it’s also that one week when you have all the…

How To Make Christmas Decorations Out Of Pine Cones

“I will never write a How To post,” I say smugly, “at least not on something I’m not an expert on.” Only experts, in my view, should be the ones writing How To posts. Specialists in their field, people who’ve spent a lifetime in their area of expertise and several years of serious postgraduate study engaged…

Fitting It All In

The yoga teacher is disappointed in us, I’m sure. Every week she asks us the same question. Are we doing our yoga at home? Just a fifteen minute practice in the mornings? Hell, we can even do it in bed if we want to. Yoga really is that flexible (if you’ll excuse the pun) and…

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