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12 Things to do on a California Road Trip
We’ve spent the past couple of weeks in California, Flea and I. I had a birthday coming up, and depressed at the thought of my rapidly looming old age, I wanted to go and do something different this...
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Summer in Pictures
I’ve got a sneaky confession. I’m not one of those parents that secretly breathes a sigh of relief when September comes around. I love summer. I love long days that we can fill with our own adventures,...
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Make Friends, Break Friends.
I’ve always found it pretty easy to make friends. Obviously, this is surprising given my fundamental misanthropy and lack of ability to make anything resembling small talk. Still, the job I do means I...
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Things to do in Cornwall when you’re eight
There’s something just a little bit magical about Cornwall. Every time we clamber out of the car to a Cornish beach, or harbour, I feel a little bit like we’re in an entirely new country. The blue...
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Fancy being a Little Tikes Toy Tester?
There are many good things about being a parent blogger. Blogging gives me a creative outlet, it’s given me a career and much more in between. But I’ll let you into a secret – the single most...
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What Really Happened at the MAD Blog Awards
Last weekend was the fifth annual MAD Blog Awards, the UK’s largest and (almost certainly) most exciting awards for Mum and Dad bloggers. You’d think after five years, we’d have this thing down pat....
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And now we are nine…
We’re a month or so into Flea being nine. I’ve been a parent now for almost a decade. And I’m realising – it doesn’t get any easier. Sure, children learn to dress themselves. They can tell you if...
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What’s your Beauty Legacy?
When Flea was four, she told me that, yes, of course she was gorgeous. And I worried, like a million Mums before me, how long that would last. When would the doubts, the nagging inner critical voice,...
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Celebrate Family Mealtimes and win a Smart Camera with Birds Eye
I tend to think the way we gather around the table defines the sort of family we are. When I was young the table was noisy and crowded and there was always discussion – of books, of politics, of...
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Party? I *am* the party.
In certain lights, I can almost pass for someone with cool musical taste. I know my way around the back catalogues of Pearl Jam and Green Day, and I can name more than a dozen Bob Dylan tracks. I can...
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