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Sponsored post – a quiet Co-operative revolution

The Co-operative started in 1844 when the Rochdale Pioneers started the first successful co-operative and is still going strong.  Its an organisation that prides itself on its ethical roots and is committed to them today.  I can vouch for that – I have had a bank account with them since my student days, back when . . . → Read More: Sponsored post – a quiet Co-operative revolution

The Innocent Queen of C

Innocent are asking everyone to take part in their alphabet game.  If you have an alphabet magnet, go over to their A-Z site and have a look which day your letter falls on.  On that day you can add your photo to their Flickr album or tweet it to Innocentdrinks with . . . → Read More: The Innocent Queen of C

Have you signed up for the Mummy Whisperer seminar?

Just wanted to quickly remind you that Lisa is running her free Mummy Whisperer webinar this week.

Its on Thursday 17th February from 8-9pm (UK time) and you can sign up here.

Lisa calls herself a Mummy Whisperer because she works to help mummies cut through the noise and clutter of all the contradictory . . . → Read More: Have you signed up for the Mummy Whisperer seminar?

Have you met the Mummy Whisperer?

One of the great things about blogging is that you get to meet new people that otherwise you might not have ever come across.

One of the first bloggers I ever met was Lisa. And one of the first things I realised about her was that she very gently, very quietly nudged me to . . . → Read More: Have you met the Mummy Whisperer?

Is having more than two children the ultimate status symbol?

In a generation we have reduced the number of average children we are having.

The Office for National Statistics said in December that we are now having an average 1.9 children compared to 2.4 children in our parent’s generation.

When you consider that the cost of raising a child to age 21 has risen . . . → Read More: Is having more than two children the ultimate status symbol?

What do you do when you think you’ve been lied to?

Tricky one this.

Not sure about posting it here.

Not sure at all.

But I need some input, some guidance and to draw on your experiences.  Please.

I think that I may have been lied to.

I think I may have been manipulated in the best ‘pull the middle class heart strings’ way.

I’m . . . → Read More: What do you do when you think you’ve been lied to?

Why shouldn’t the men stay inside?

What kind of society do we live in where at the first sign of danger we insist that women remain indoors ‘for their safety’?

That we demand that women do not walk alone at night?

That we suggest that women taken ‘normal precautions’?

Because it appears that in the aftermath of the Joanna Yeates . . . → Read More: Why shouldn’t the men stay inside?

Am I a Mummy blogger or a blogger who’s a Mummy?

2010 was a funny old year for me – a year of contrasts between the full on parenting part of my life whilst I was off on maternity and gardening leave but also having to throw myself fully into reclaiming the professional me.

I guess in part it was a year when I accepted . . . → Read More: Am I a Mummy blogger or a blogger who’s a Mummy?

So did we all survive?

Whosh!

After all the hard work, all the anticipation and the preparation, its all over.

Christmas has been and gone and we’re left now with the consequences of too much food and drink, a pile of torn wrapping paper and more toys than we know what to do with.

Top Muddling moments were Mr . . . → Read More: So did we all survive?

Felled by circumstances and the plague

I think I must be cursed when it comes to Christmas and work.  So many Christmases I’ve had work blow up shortly before and this one isn’t any different. I had thought I was going to be able to take the girls to our office children’s Christmas party but instead I have meetings I . . . → Read More: Felled by circumstances and the plague

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