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I am a single mum to a (mostly) delightful tweenager I refer to as Moo. It has been just the two of us for ten years now and we generally bumble along just great. Yes, we are but two, but a family we are, nonetheless. I guess you could call us a 'single parent, only…
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“Motherhood: it ain't for the faint-hearted” said by me, after a gin some gins. To be fair, this is a polite take on my favourite ever parenting quote made by a lovely friend of mine to another mutual friend (pregnant with her first child) over a Sunday roast. Only, what she said to our heavily…
Someone once said that a person does not get cancer. A family does. My daughter with my beautiful late Auntie Living under the shadow of this intangible yet omnipresent force is a heavily emotional experience. Whilst the illness hits the individual, the whole family feels its tremors. The ground, which was once so steady now…
I write this on Halloween. A day for ghosts and ghouls and sticky fingered children. For me though, Halloween has, circumstantially, become a day in which key life events have occurred for me which have marked important change. If I was to be really dramatic (what, me?!) you could say Halloween is a day in…
*And there it is, just like that. After weeks of equilibrium and relative calm, normal is replaced with a knot in my chest. The first rung on the ladder of anxiety. The knot sits there obstructing my breath, a physical reminder that fluidity is temporarily interrupted. My tummy clenches in a troubled way as if…
And there we have it. Primary school is done. Another phase and another era ticked off the list with change afoot come September, and mixed feelings stirring in our tummies. Where did that time go? Yup, the million dollar question that every parent ponders as they watch their children's childhoods dash by. But seriously though:…
Continue reading ➞ School Leaver 2020. When your child leaves Primary School…
Doorstep Discovery This blog was a by-product of my Instagram account (@thesoundofmotherhood) and was originally set up under the name of 'Doorstep Discovery' to document my discovery of what is on my doorstep (see what I did there, lol). Eventually, it organically morphed into a parenting blog, but the objective of my social media presence…
We are currently witnessing a global focus on another utterly tragic loss of life of a Black man whilst being detained by a White police officer. Of course, I refer to George Floyd. Sadly, there are many more deaths of Black and Brown people at the hands of law enforcement that came before him and…
I knew I wanted to blog for a long time. I enjoy writing and I find it therapeutic. I also knew that I wanted to focus my writing on my experiences of motherhood in all its shades of good, bad and grey. 100% though, this focus topic lands me square in the realm of the…
We have curtains in our home for a reason (or make that Plantation shutters if you truly consider yourself a fully-fledged Instahun 😉). A means of shutting out the world, at our choosing, when we wish for privacy. I think we'd all agree that it's good for the soul. Essential for sanity. Perfectly normal. Imagine,…
Continue reading ➞ Instagram v Tattle in the world of the ‘mummy blogger’
We first visited the Hop Shop at Castle Farm in July when its fields were awash with purple bloom and the scent of lavender laced the air. It was a little part of Kent I had wanted to visit for some time as I had visions of my daughter and I skipping through a violet haze…
Continue reading ➞ Out and about in Kent; a visit to the Hop Shop at Castle Farm
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