It’s not often you get to spend the morning with a room full of celebrity chefs and nutritionists who are all geared towards helping children eat better. In fact it’s a luxury I could not turn down.
Frazzled and bombarded by daily media outcries about obese Britain, us Mums can’t do right for [...] Read more »

I was sent a preview copy of the movie Motherhood which I watched the other night and wished I’d watched it with a group of Mums, and Mums who blog too. There are some priceless moments in there that will resonate with a lot of you.
Uma Thurman plays the central character, Eliza Welch, she [...] Read more »

Did someone mix up the three letter acronym and get it disastrously wrong?
Do you think they wanted SJP (Sarah Jessica Parker) and not JSP (Janet Street Porter)?
How wrong can you get it.
If you were organising an event for Mums why would you invite Janet Street Porter?
She is the driving force behind [...] Read more »

If you’ve ever felt stuck and unable to tap into any vein or train of thought you’ll know how horrible it is. And equally bad is if you have so many ideas – a glut in fact – that you feel that you can’t even being to start because it’s all so overwhelming. I have and frequently. In fact this blog post is one of those ‘ideas’ I had but could not quite articulate properly so it sat in a creative dark cloud above my head and has followed me round for weeks if not months. Read more »

Living and working in London and bringing up a child in one of the most cultural capitals of the world is a rich and rewarding experience. There’s no way you can really slow down unless you leave town for the weekend or take a holiday, so my advice is just enjoy the ride. If you’re a working Mum like me and need to be firing on all cylinders 100% 24-7, you might find these ideas useful. Read more »

There’s a well worn phrase which was pretty popular back in the day…’Behind every successful man there’s a woman/wife at home…’ And when I say back in the day, it’s probably back in the day when men thought they could still get away with saying it. Because it really is an old fashioned belief. [...] Read more »

I really wanted our Christmas day to be different, and it certainly was.
I had booked lunch at my favourite hotel in Soho so all we had to do was get up, open presents, throw on something festive to wear and roll into a taxi – bliss, bliss and triple bliss. We got a taxi [...] Read more »

This image might look a bit familiar – it’s not quite the original from my banner. Those are my almost but not quite really all time favourite Miu Miu shoes and my daughter’s gorgeous tiny red ballet shoes which I hand sewed sequins on for her when she was three.
And there they [...] Read more »

Thanks to all you lovely people who dropped by and left congratulations on my bloggy birthday. It has been quite a year and it was nice to make a fuss about it.
And now it’s my turn to give some of you an early christmas pressie back.
So without further ado, here are the recipients [...] Read more »

If you haven’t noticed by now, I’ve been reminiscing on my year in the mumosphere and I’m feeling incredibly sentimental – in fact, I’m feeling a tad bit generous and want to share some happiness with you all, but how?
While I’d love to buy a drink for each and every single of the one [...] Read more »