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Am I selfish? I like to think not. As a friend, daughter, wife, mother (to two small young children), colleague and neighbour, I like to think I am kind, loving, thoughtful and always rooting for the … read more

Does 50:50 parenting work? (or how to be nicer to each other when you’re both up against everything) I’d love to be able to say that I’ve finally got past that bit of parenting where every weekend is … read more

Hands up who wishes that the maths they’d learned at school had had a more practical bent to it? Instead of solving quadratic equations, why couldn’t we have been taught handy life skills: algebraic f … read more

You don’t need me to tell you that in 2016, a woman wearing a pair of closed toe flats to go to work and being told to change out of them and buy a shoe with a minimum 2 inch heel so she can man recep … read more

Is there a word that is harder to say than ‘no? Small and so very loaded. And yet, it’s a word which we aren’t saying nearly enough. It’s taken me a while to get there but now that I’ve felt the absol … read more