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• for the Girls

  

  Since small person’s birth, I’ve been totally and utterly floored and awed by the wonder of women, something I think I’d never quite grasped in my work centred... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2018 SELF EXPRESSION

• “no Strings”

  

  Something remarkable happened yesterday …small person has the capacity to engender love, to inspire kindness and, seemingly, to touch people. Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2017 SELF EXPRESSION

• Children’s Book of the Year

  

  Milky Moments has won an award.A huge massive enormous (and very prestigious … and voted for by the public) award.Milky Moments won the People’s Book Prize awar... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Defiance … Bought to You by Disney

  I have a daughter, a feisty, opinionated, determined, focussed, bright, musical, free spirited child. She knows her own mind, but she loves new experiences. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2016 SELF EXPRESSION

• Medical Marvels and Terrific Toys

  

  There is a wonderful giveaway from Heirloom Toys at the bottom of this post : ) Earlier in the summer I had a weekend away with a friend and our daughters. Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Personal Shopper

  Taking a small person shopping is always an adventure, and often hard work … but frequently extremely funny as the honest and insightful observations can be ver... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Book … a Prize … a Possibility?

  So … I wrote a book, it took an age and I never dreamt it would be published … it was, in May 2015, it sold out in a few weeks and then kept on selling, hardbac... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• O & x

  We’ve been playing noughts and crosses (tic tac toe) for a while now.Her auntie gave her a little wooden board with pleasing red circles and solid black X’s on... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Her Rationale …

  She’s started rationalising why she does or doesn’t want to do things … why she was mischievous, why she got cross, why she was happy … really just WHY? Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• She Saved and She Saved

  

  for the last six weeks she’s been saving.Well that’s not strictly true, she’s been saving for the last two years… every penny she picks up, every note or coin... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Let It Be Known …

  Let it be known, that from here on in a pachyderm (and more specifically the one with the trunk) will officially be known as an EFFALUNT…most of her funny... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• How Long is Long Enough?

  

  Thanks for popping over from Mum in a Nutshell (or for stumbling upon this post visiting my blog) and welcome to my post for the Keep Britain Breastfeeding... Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Big Book News …

  

  Today, Thursday June 11th, exactly four weeks to the day, since that wet and soggy book launch, the paperback edition of Milky Moments is being released. Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Book Bits … a Launch Retrospective.

  

  Four weeks ago I was left feeling as if my head had exploded … shivering, numb and in shock. No, nothing bad had happened, in fact something amazing had... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• The 1000 Yard Dash

  

  When you’re running along bent sideways holding the side of the scooter your small person is zipping along on … it can be a bit ache inducing, that can either b... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• It’s Normal

  

  This piece (written by me at the invitation of the newspaper) was first published as a centre spread feature in the print edition of the Cambridge News on Monda... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Toddler Talk

  Yesterday morning I crept out of bed early, I had an article to write for the local newspaper about my book and a talk to prepare on setting up a business in th... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Hurrah Hurray It’s Published Today

  

  My book … Milky Moments, is published today!that is all … I’m thrilled, amazed, proud, humble, awestruck and very shell shocked, and of course incredibly... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• Tantrums and Tomorrows

  

  she’s threeshe’s threenage … I hate that phrase, but it really is an accurate summation of how things are!tantrums … for the most random of reasons …– clearly... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION

• My Book is out This Week … MY BOOK

  

  Funny, I haven’t been able to write about the whole book journey at all … to start with it all felt to special and secret, my idea, the way things were... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2015 SELF EXPRESSION