I have a friend who creates beautiful hand made cards for birthdays her designs are always thoughtful and lovingly made and I have always been in awe of her creative skills. Another friend sends Christmas cards every year made by her children. I am not in awe of their creative skills in fact their cards […]
So I’ve just read the speech Hilary Mantel gave to the LRB and I found it an interesting discourse on the role of women in the monarchy. I especially liked the bit about Diana hatching from the wedding carriage like ectoplasm. And the bit about pandas. However as the mother of a young daughter I’m […]
So pretty much everyone I’ve met since moving north has had the same reaction to us leaving London. Mainly that London is of course a terrible place to bring up a family and we were right to leave before the kids were eaten by urban foxes. At the risk of being thrown out of Yorkshire […]
We’ve recently uprooted from London and moved to Yorkshire to be nearer family, I think it’s important the children get to spend quality time with their grandparents and even more important for me to spend quality time reading Grazia. The plan came to me when I was on the toilet breastfeeding my newborn whilst my […]