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Tweet I look around at my colleagues and friends and see a bunch of people struggling with continuous tiredness and huge amounts of stress – almost everyone is shattered and hasn’t seen enough of their family and friends and almost all feel torn between the increased demands of work and the emotional demands of their [...] Tweet Today my old school is holding a big bash, over 300 former pupils are going to be going along for speeches, tours and general reminiscing I’ve decided not to go There is a small part of me that thinks I should have made more of an effort to find a friend to come along [...] Tweet I do wonder if part of the working mother / stay at home mother angst has to do with either side thinking that the other has a better time of motherhood As a working mum is rushing around feeling dragged in hundreds of directions, isolated from their child’s life and not managing to give [...] 
Tweet To whoever is in charge of time and space and all that sort of stuff,
We the undersigned are petitioning for the creation of an extra hour in the day Please note that this hour is only to be created AFTER the children have gone to bed (and stayed in their bed) we [...] Tweet I am just soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired – properly bone, could quite happily curl up on the floor under my desk and sleep tired This week has been a long slog – meetings starting before 8am (why oh why oh why?) and long days spent rushing around fighting fires and trying to persuade people to act [...] Tweet Today I have sent in the paperwork to return to full time work After all of the battles to win a chance to see if reducing my hours might be able to work out, after all of the struggles to convince my boss that it was working and that we could make it work, [...] Tweet Honestly you step away from the computer for 5 minutes and the next thing you know it’s been over a week since you last blogged… Ooops I have been doing a bit of thinking whilst I’ve been away and realised that one of the reasons I am feeling so overwhelmed by work is that [...] Tweet I am increasingly feeling uncomfortable about the rhetoric surrounding benefits and people who claim benefits in the UK. If you read the press it feels as if The Powers That Be have decided that we are split into a nation where you are either a striver or a sponger Strivers work hard, want to [...] 
Tweet Sorry I haven’t been around much – we had a bit of a holiday over Easter and I tried to escape work for a bit, tried being the key word since I ended up in London at meetings on Thursday and spent Friday trying to juggle life with a paper that suddenly needed submitting [...] Tweet I seem to have got myself in a rut where my base operating level is fury and it just escalates from there at the merest hint of provocation I don’t know if part of it is a defence mechanism – so much easier to be angry and on the defensive than as needy and [...]  |
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