Half of all children in lone parent families are now living in relative poverty. If you are a single parent, you are probably feeling the pressure. The cost of living crisis is set to hit some groups harder than others and single parents who shoulder the extra burden of bill […]
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Recipe: Sticky Toffee Coffee & Walnut Cake
I am not a baker. At least, I wasn’t until I turned into a lockdown cliché and started baking scones, banana bread and brownies like the rest of the nation. And I had every intention of making a regular, run of the mill coffee and walnut cake right until the […]
Trickle-Down Therapy: People Pleasing Is Dishonest
In ‘trickle down therapy’, I pick a psychology, philosophy or self-help theory that I’ve learnt, listened to or benefitted from and break it down, very briefly, so that you can digest it and then go away and read more on it if you feel like it could help you. This […]
Prawn & Coconut Curry Recipe
Once you learn how to make a basic curry base, you can throw away the recipe book. Which might not be the best way to start an, ahem, recipe post, but maybe you haven’t learnt how to make a decent paste yet. I love creamy, coconut-y curries, and while I […]
The Snail and the Whale Live Stream Virtual Tour
There’s something so magical about a day at the theatre in the run-up to Christmas. Last Christmas I went to see The Snail and the Whale in the West End with Jack and my mum and we absolutely loved it. While it looks like theatre visits might be off the […]
Recipe: Baked Sweet Potato With Avocado Salad
If you, like me, run out of dinner ideas pretty quickly in days and weeks filled with working and mumming, you’ll always be on the lookout for a quick and healthy dinner recipe. This baked sweet potato with avocado salad one from The Detox Kitchen is a real winner. Easy-peasy […]
This Is The Colour Of Periods.
My inbox is a Pandora’s box of mad and troubling press releases, most of which I don’t have time to dedicate to (more’s the pity) but occasionally amongst the actual important correspondence and useful information, something unsolicited catches my eye. Today’s find was entitled: ‘PANTONE COLOR INSTITUTE PARTNERS WITH INTIMINA […]
The Way My Mother Swims.
I was swimming in the heated, sea water infinity pool at the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat, looking out across the Mediterranean Sea. There was pink dye in my hair so I had rolled it on top of my head and was swimming with sunglasses on my nose. Breaststroke, quite fast (if […]
The Best Things About Being A Single Mum
Being a single mum is brilliant. I wanted to just let that sentence have its own line because usually it is caveated. ‘Being a single mum is brilliant, but…’. ‘Being a single mum isn’t all bad but it’s the hardest thing you’ll ever do.’ It’s not that the statement doesn’t […]
A Single Mum’s Guide to (Not) Dating
‘How do you date as a single mum?’ This is a question I not only get asked quite a lot, but also hear being discussed in online-single-mum-world. (Side note, online-single-mum-world deserves a much less tragic moniker because it’s actually a great place to hang out.) I’ve been listening to Alright […]