Over the last few months I have been volunteering at a primary school. As I am looking to train as a children’s counsellor I decided that while I waited for the day Martha starts full time (giving me the time […]
It’s now the 3rd of December and I have not weighed myself at all this year. This may seem like a strange thing to state for many people but since the age of 14 I have weighed myself every week, […]
Today I was told off. It was fairly gently sugested to me that I should not wear clothes with swear words on them when I’m doing the school run. I haven’t been told off by a teacher in quite some […]
I have gone back and forth in my head over whether I wanted to write this post. Not because I think I’m wrong or that what I have to say shouldn’t be said but because I know that the tension […]
For four years I have been holding my breath. When Trump won in 2016 and Britain voted in favour of Brexit I felt my heart starting to crack. Since then my hope and belief in people has been challenged time […]
As a stay at home mum I am often considered by the wider society to be a glorified nanny. On forms I even have to tick the unemployed box or homemaker box. Neither of these boxes even begin to encapsulate […]
There are many emotional and mental challenges that I contend with that cause me to often feel ashamed but I have never felt as pathetic as I did earlier this week. We’re all going through a challenging times. We’re separated […]
Food has become a massive part of the global conversation as people panic buy, shame people for panic buying and the vulnerable rely on volunteers to deliver them any essentials they may need. This is, of course, an ongoing problem […]
For a little while now we have been coming to the realisation that there may be more to Rufus’s personality, that there may in fact be an underlying explanation for his idiosyncrasies. Rufus is kind, intelligent, brave and all around […]
So we’ve made it. We’ve made it to the end of week two of the Summer holidays. The kids have had swimming lessons, we’ve been to the park, gone riding on our bikes, had a new boiler installed (on the […]