Founder of Mother Pukka, Anna Whitehouse likes super hero cape-making classes and dislikes the naming of celebrity couples (TomKat, Brange etc.) She tries (and often fails) to parent the shit out of life.
What a hoo ha
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What a hoo ha

This isn’t going to be a pity party (if anything it’s a shitty party, with stale party rings,…

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Get outta here
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Get outta here

It was first a drunken Topshop Lycra-embellished post-GCSE jaunt to Magaluf in 1997, then onto Tuscany with a…

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Pick-me-up
06-07-2016Blog

Pick-me-up

I was standing on the junction of a main road, grappling toddler (making noise like a pterodactyl in…

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Let’s get digital
28-06-2016Blog

Let’s get digital

As we launch our FLEX APPEAL – a campaign encouraging companies to loosen the 9-5 shackles and realise…

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That’s rich
27-06-2016Blog

That’s rich

I wanted to pick up on something the ace Charlotte Philby from Motherland mentioned in a post a few…

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Gimme a gram
14-06-2016Blog

Gimme a gram

So my new office is a little pink and orange box filled with about 400 million strangers. Bricks…

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Copy cat
12-06-2016Blog

Copy cat

The technique was simple: elbow primed, head lowered and a quick bum shuffle 35 degrees to the right…

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Vlog ‘n’ sprog
09-06-2016Blog

Vlog ‘n’ sprog

There it was: £10,000 on an invoice for someone turning up to an event. That was what a…

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Super human
01-06-2016Blog

Super human

Editor’s note: Events and circumstances mentioned within this post are not current. @mrsmorganallen has since changed her handle…

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Rock ‘n’ stroll
01-06-2016Blog

Rock ‘n’ stroll

    I grew up in the 80s when anything graffitied was for ‘hooligans’ and tattoos equaled ‘trouble’….

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Happy hour
27-05-2016Blog

Happy hour

So I’m going to preface this with: I think we can (mostly) be trusted to not get blotto…

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Money matters
27-05-2016Blog

Money matters

I won’t beat around the unruly bush: I’m in this for the money. Blogging, vlogging, flogging is a…

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Breaking point
25-05-2016Blog

Breaking point

  I love working (I need to work). I love parenting (I need to parent). The two HAVE…

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Put a sock in it
23-05-2016Blog

Put a sock in it

Dear Matt, father of my kid, life lobster, epic tea maker and sock bundler… It started with the…

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Lost cause
18-05-2016Blog

Lost cause

“So what do you do?”. A question I could once answer with the gusto of a West End-bound…

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Bad habits
12-05-2016Blog

Bad habits

So I’m a creature of habit. Those habits range from eating a slice of Lederhammer (50% less fat,…

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Cash it in
10-05-2016Blog

Cash it in

When I was a young ‘un, I’d chuck money at the situation willy nilly. The less I had,…

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Love’s labour’s lost
10-05-2016Blog

Love’s labour’s lost

Haters gonna hate – Sure they are but let’s call a spade a spade, hate is a strong…

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Squad LOLS
05-05-2016Blog

Squad LOLS

Having been vaguely parenting for two years now, I’ve noticed a few trends pop up in playgrounds and…

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Wild imagination
29-04-2016Blog

Wild imagination

I’m not really a dreamer; You won’t catch me whimsically conjuring up a world of peonies and unicorns…

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Girl power
27-04-2016Blog

Girl power

Bedtime tonight ran thus: refusal to go in the house (“I want to go on red bike”), refusal…

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Fannying about
22-04-2016Blog

Fannying about

She’s a mother, a Diet Coke lover, a TV presenter and the kind of woman whose endearingly grotty…

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Harsh reality
17-04-2016Blog

Harsh reality

I’d love to have glided off into the sunset after quitting my fulltime role at L’Oreal Group as…

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Guest of honour
12-04-2016Blog

Guest of honour

My wedding frock? It was from an aesthetically challenged shop in Haarlem, The Netherlands. It was hidden among a…

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Flexi Mother Pukka
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Flexi Mother Pukka

In the end, something had to give. Limited scope for flexible working at her dayjob meant Mother Pukka was spending a…

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Cloud nine
04-04-2016Blog

Cloud nine

The last 18 months have run thus: moved from Amsterdam to London, started new job, quit new job…

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Style it out
24-03-2016Blog

Style it out

The minute you embark on project procreation, your style doesn’t suddenly dissolve. Well, it does a bit –…

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Miscarriage of (in)justice
24-03-2016Blog

Miscarriage of (in)justice

Founder of Mother Pukka, Anna Whitehouse talks about miscarriage in Stylist Magazine and why it shouldn’t be the…

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Age concerned
21-03-2016Blog

Age concerned

This is Mae and Derek from next door, who popped in for lunch yesterday. He is 87-years-old and…

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Milkin’ it
21-03-2016Blog

Milkin’ it

It started as a flicker and then went into a pneumatic throb. The eye twitch is the parental…

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