For several years I have graciously worn the title of Uber Mother, afforded to me largely because of the fifteen month accidental age gap between my three progeny. This is a happy by-product of fertility; friends and family consider you to be a paragon of motherhood purely by virtue of the number of children you […]
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Working from home makes you fat
I’ve never worked from home before. At least, not on a long-term basis. I’ve had those days where I’ve solemnly informed my boss “I’ll be working from home today”, but he and I both knew that meant the nanny had called in sick and I’d be spending the day looking after three children and checking […]
Wardrobe woes
Am I the only one who’ll be relieved when autumn arrives? It’s not that I don’t enjoy the summer – such as it is – but the days when I could prance about in cut off denims and crop tops are long gone. Those breasts which once stayed firm and pert beneath a flimsy vest […]
What would you do with two child-free hours?
One of the advantages of having children very close in age (three within 15 months, in my case) is that they tend to have the same friends. This makes is significantly easier when organising play dates or sending out party invitations. Last weekend my tribe had been invited to a friend’s birthday party and I […]
Total insanity
I have gone insane. Not for the first time, you could say, although on this occasion retrieving my sanity shouldn’t involve medication, a course of counselling and a hundred-weight bar of Dairy Milk. The husband and I have embarked on an eight week DVD-based fitness programme which is appropriately entitled Insanity. There’s no link, because […]
Oxfordshire's newest literary festival
I’m one of the organisers of a brand new literary festival in Chipping Norton, a beautiful Oxfordshire market town on the edge of the Cotswolds. The town was recently made famous by the ‘Chipping Norton set’ involved in the phone hacking scandal. I can assure you there’ll be none of that going on at the […]