The best lies our children tell..
They don’t know they’re doing it most of the time but children have an incredible knack of telling lies. Got me thinking what are the most common lies they tell so I started a list .. “I don’t need to…
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Parenting
Is there a “right” time to have children?
I was at a party (yes I know I got out to a party!) recently and got chatting to someone I hadn’t seen in a long while. Roughly the same age as me. I asked who was minding his children…
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All in good time, the rush for baby milestones..
I was in a furniture shop at the weekend and the salesperson was telling me with great joy about their grandchild’s first potty poo and the subsequent WhatsApp pictures
My perfectly imperfect blog and blogging envy!
Greetings, During my time away from blogging there were a few issues which affected me coming back. Firstly there was web hosting service shutting my blog down due to high data usage, ironic in that it wasn’t actually active at…
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Thank funk it`s Friday!!
Well hello đź‘‹.. Its been a while, its been a long long while.. But I’m back.. So you may remember my previous post about my redundancy, Redundancy, but you have a young family! Well I’m pleased to report that I…
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Shared parental leave but were afraid to ask..
As we approach the third anniversary of the launch of shared parental leave on 05/04//2015 I started thinking about why the uptake is so poor. Most of the online focus looks at the financial impacts but there is nothing looking…
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Choosing your own adventure with a blank canvas…
I was going to call this post “Choose your own adventure books, the adult version”, but I thought that may have attracted you for the wrong reasons! Following on from my previous post Redundancy and a young family I found my first…
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Redundancy? But you have a young family….
Redundancy? but you have a young family.. The words I heard from a colleague I’ve known many years this week when they found out about some company moves which could mean redundancy for me. I’m certain my colleague was being…
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Baby number three, the start of the end of blogging?
As my domain renewal e mails continue to come I started thinking, do I really need to do this? I’ve been away for so long so what’s the point? Before I answer that, hello! đź‘‹ Is been too long. Why…
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An ode to the school run.. My poetic ramblings.
Being new to the whole school drop off thing I was inspired to write a post, then it became a poem as my mind wandered amongst the various ramblings of my 2 and 3 year olds. Topics ranging from dinner…
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