You know what’s worse than failing to follow someone else’s good advice? Failing to follow your own good advice, that’s what. I make no secret of the fact I am a big advocate of spending time outside because it’s basic self care. Family life has got so busy over recent weeks that I’ve failed to
Did you know that trailblazing scientist Marie Curie broke the law by joining a secret, underground study group known as The Flying University because in that era women were not allowed to receive higher education? In this day and age it sounds ridiculous to think that a woman would have to go to such lengths
A few weeks ago, I noticed a couple of interesting tweets from broadcaster and political journalist Emma Barnett. Barnett had just published a book about periods called It’s about Bloody Time. Period. Female friends and colleagues of Barnett’s had gone along to the book’s launch party but many of their male partners hadn’t attended, claiming
Some time ago I was out with Izzy, my youngest child. A bus went past with a huge advert for the animated film Sausage Party on the side of it. Thinking it was a run-of-the-mill cartoon, Izzy started pestering me to take her to see it. Needless to say, she’d missed the bit on the
As with many blog posts, the inspiration for this one came following a casual chat with a dad. This guy has a child at a secondary school Mrs Adams and I have been considering for Helen, our eldest daughter.
