Most of the time, I’m a Mumbot – a mummy on autopilot. The business of parenting kids is so, well, busy, that I just…

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Favours are the currency of mums. If you’re a mum in a fix, another mum will help you out. Even if she hardly knows…

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My children bring me utmost joy. But do I enjoy my children?  To calculate how many minutes a day I enjoy being a mum,…

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The more kids you have, the less welcome you are. Or is that just us? However much you like us, why would you invite…

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If one kid is doing something video-worthy, the other will be in mortal danger. Or, at the very least, fighting, screaming, running in front…

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You can’t command respect naked. Not even from your kids. Hence, I propose a Mumswear diffusion line, starting with The Shouting Bra and the…

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If nativities are not the point of being a parent, I don’t know what is. Never mind the wondrous day of their birth, their…

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Coffee mornings – that’s all we mums do, isn’t it? According to outsiders, that is. But, there is a grain of truth in it…

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OK, so I’ve more or less lost my baby weight. The baby’s given up the boob, so I’ve lost the nursing bras. But I…

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If my list and I left the house together, we’d be unstoppable. My levels of organisation would know no parallel. My life would lilt…

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