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Tweet I don’t know if it is just me but every time that someone coos ‘I don’t know how you do it all!’ I’m really very tempted to explain in detail EXACTLY what goes into doing all – if it looks effortless from the outside, the reality is a whole heap less tidy and poised [...] Tweet A work friend of mine went home after a client dinner we’d hosted and told his wife how I had made a joke suggesting that since we had no table plan we sat boy-girl-boy-girl – his bemused wife asked why that was funny My friend explained that in a room of 22 people, I [...] 
Tweet It struck me that childcare in the UK is rather like the making things part of a Blue Peter episode You are shown the ideal of childcare that works perfectly, is flexible, affordable and child focused – you then try and re-create this perfect creation in the safety of your own home only to discover [...] 
Tweet Another week, another woman decides to step up and tell women how they need to change themselves to get ahead Sheryl Sandberg has waded into the debate around why there are not more women at senior corporate levels by suggesting that women need to stop leaning back from careers and lean right in and [...] Tweet I hate the term Mummy Wars – I hate the idea that we can’t just be supportive of our decisions and move on. I hate the idea that we are supposed to be on different sides rather than all doing our best as parents. Life is too short etc etc
Unfortunately recent research [...] 
Tweet Today didn’t start well, had some fairly terrible bits in the middle but incredibly had a moment of pure beauty just before I headed home from work I had my work appraisal – usually something I look forward to about as much as a root canal (feedback usually is that I’m not aggressive enough [...] 
Tweet Is it just me or do you say dinosaur and then mentally do a George Pig ‘grrrrrrr’? Ok so that’s just me then… Moving on… As part of my becoming middle aged / turning into my mother, I’ve rediscovered Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. Between this and a fondness for the Today programme I have [...] Tweet I have been trying to not fret about things. When I mean things, what I really mean is everything – a list that starts small along the lines of what on earth are we having for dinner and then rapidly escalates through why is something eating the eggs from the henhouse and then takes [...] Tweet It is funny the things that suddenly matter. The small things that really have very little place in the greater scheme of things and when considered logically should not merit a single moment of consideration. And yet they are the teeny tiny things that seem to matter the most.
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