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LATEST ARTICLES ( 36 )

• Author Matt Haig: Loving the Alien

  

  This week, Catching the Comet’s Tail features author Matt Haig. I like to imagine that if, by some time-bending miracle, Rene Descartes could meet David Bowie a... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Reward Stickers for Adults: Gummy Little Redeemers

  

  The AverysIt is time my friends. Time to pay homage to the couple who made the task of modern parenting/teaching/damage limitation possible. The inventor of... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Author Rosie Fiore: Hooking the Thread

  

  This week, Catching the Comet’s Tail features author Rosie Fiore. Her second novel, Wonder Women, is a brilliantly observed, multi-layered story about three... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Artist Ylva Kunze: Chance and Control

  

  Welcome to Catching the Comet’s Tail, a series of interviews with writers, artists and musicians discussing creativity and their creative process. Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Elizabeth Fremantle: Tea, Toast and Not Losing Your Head

  

  Welcome to Catching the Comet’s Tail, a series of interviews with writers, artists and musicians discussing creativity and their creative process. Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Top 10 Vegetarian Cookbooks Or Why I’m Back on the (Cashew Nut) Sauce

  

  Here are some things I don’t want to put in my mouth; Blue Peter pets, Bambi, trotters, Shergar. Which is why, after a seven year break, I decided to return to ... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Letting Men into the Cult of Motherhood

  

  I’m having a dilemma.Am I a parent, or am I a mother?Am I a uterus, or am I a person?It sounds funny, but actually, it’s quite serious. Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Rants in My Pants: The Art of Being Constructively Cross

  

  I’m so grateful for blogging; how else could I give voice to my acidic internal monologues? Is there any point to having a rant in private? Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 FAMILY, PARENTING

• A Chaos of Edges: Welcome to the Perimenopause

  

  Most women are born with their life quota of egg follicles, somewhere around 2 million of them. In an average life, these eggs diminish to about 750,000 by the... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 FAMILY, PARENTING

• How to Get Your Kids into Poetry: Granny is a Vintage Cheese

  

  I’ve been a lifelong fan of poetry. My love of it was instilled in me by my dad who called it ‘poultry’ and for years, I thought the written word was closely... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2012 FAMILY, PARENTING

• When Did I Become the Oracle at Bollocks?

  

  Confession: I am held together by Post It NotesIn ancient Greece, the area of Delphi contained a sanctuary where Apollo was said to speak through an older... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2012 FAMILY, PARENTING

• 15 Things I Want My 7 Year Old Daughter To Know

  

  Molly our cat protests at the impossible standard of physical perfection demanded of women which contributes to epidemic cultural body dysmorphia and continued... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2012 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Women with Unnaturally Perfect Hair During Childbirth

  

  Rachel and Ross from Friends demonstrate perfectly coiffured childbirth.Ok, Miranda has one small hair out of place but SJP? A ‘real’ birth partner would be... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2012 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Your Story in 6 Words: Can You Do It?

  

  I went to see my lovely artist friend Sandra Turnbull last week. She had an open house at her North London studio and it was, as usual, an inspiration to see he... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 FAMILY, PARENTING

• 8 Things Every New Mother Needs: Where’s My F**king Medal?

  

  I don’t know about you, but after I gave birth, I expected some serious adoration, praise, and general worship. A small eulogy on the wonders of my cervix or a... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2012 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Mothers Who Make Me Look Good #1 Joan Crawford

  

  When Christina Crawford published her  tell-all autobiography Mommie Dearest in 1978, the revelations about her adoptive mother Joan Crawford’s cruelty caused... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 FAMILY, PARENTING