I don’t pretend to understand politics 

I don’t pretend to understand politics but even I realise that today has been a big day in American politics.  More than that today has…

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How coffee mornings really go down when you have children

Arriving in Qatar in the middle of August meant two things, the first was that the desert heat makes Doha hotter than the sun during…

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Some days there is no joy in parenting

Social media represents the 5% of your life that you want to show off to the world.  The joyful moments.  The soppy hashtag-soblessed moments.  Those…

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5 things I said I would do to be a perfect parent, but don’t….

I had a list as long as my arm before I became a mum of things I would do.  I had an ideal of how…

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What the Bedtime Story really sounds like….

Sometime last year I read a wonderful post on what the bedtime story regime was really like, I’ve been searching for the post ever since…

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Why I’m not raising my boys to be great husbands

I’m not raising my boys to be great husbands.  That is not my role as a mother.  That is not the guidance I am giving…

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To the man who asked my 3 year old son why he was buying a girls magazine

The Big One likes magazines.  Scratch that.  The Big One loves magazines, mainly for the free toys but we do actually read them too.  I am…

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