Four years ago today, I started a new life as a freelancer. Soon afterwards, blogging took over and became my full-time job. When I left a secure and well-paid role to become my own boss in 2015, it did raise a few eyebrows among colleagues. It was worth the risk though. It’s given me loads …
There’s something quite brilliant about discovering your kids’ abandoned play scenes. Well, sometimes there is. Admittedly, it can get tiresome when they never tidy things away, but I love finding their imaginations frozen in a moment. I like trying to work out what they were thinking about at the time and they often make me …
My kids are getting more and more cheeky. I don’t know whether this is down to an improvement in the weather and, therefore, their moods, but they’re getting bolder. So much so, that they have started using my own words against me. As with many such examples of insubordination, this all started with youngest. Although she’s …
Today is International Day of Families. This year, the UN observance is focussing on Sustainable Development Goal 13, climate action. We all need to do our bit – even on a micro level – so this is a great opportunity to assess whether we’re doing enough. I’m forever fretting about whether we’re doing a good …
My 40th birthday is now just six months away and, although I know it’s not really a big deal, it’s a constant in my mind. And my knees too, for that matter. That is to say that, while I’m still as fit and active as I was ten years ago, I’m really feeling it these …
I’ve been fairly quiet both on here and social media lately. Little seems to have gone to plan recently and, to put things mildly, I was feeling rather deflated as a result. I very rarely give myself a break so, for once, thought “sod it, I’m having a few days off”. And the good news …
Easter is almost upon us and with it comes the confusion as to who the chocolate eggs come from. I like to refer to it as an eggs-istential crisis. Does the bunny deserve the credit, or should it be awarded much closer to home? Due to the fact that this celebration is literally a moveable …
I’ve always liked a good pun. In fact, the same goes for bad puns. I even like most of the offerings you get in Christmas crackers. Apart from that one about vampires with coughs and a typo for a punchline that somehow gets printed every year. In my days as a journalist, I delighted in …
One of the things that has amazed me since becoming a parent is kids’ relationship with technology. I shouldn’t be so surprised, of course. It’s part of the furniture to them, whereas a lot of what we take for granted these days wasn’t around when I was a child. There’s also the fact that it’s a …
Big news. The toddler finally knows how to spit out toothpaste. It came at a cost, of course. My favourite hoodie is now slightly stained. But at least some progress has been made. Just under a year ago, I wrote a post about how to brush a toddler’s teeth in 37 easy steps. I can …