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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There it was: £10,000 on an invoice for someone turning up to an event. That was what a…
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I grew up in the 80s when anything graffitied was for ‘hooligans’ and tattoos equaled ‘trouble’….
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So I’m going to preface this with: I think we can (mostly) be trusted to not get blotto…
more ›Money matters
I won’t beat around the unruly bush: I’m in this for the money. Blogging, vlogging, flogging is a…
more ›Breaking point
I love working (I need to work). I love parenting (I need to parent). The two HAVE…
more ›Put a sock in it
Dear Matt, father of my kid, life lobster, epic tea maker and sock bundler… It started with the…
more ›Lost cause
“So what do you do?”. A question I could once answer with the gusto of a West End-bound…
more ›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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When I was a young ‘un, I’d chuck money at the situation willy nilly. The less I had,…
more ›Love’s labour’s lost
Haters gonna hate – Sure they are but let’s call a spade a spade, hate is a strong…
more ›Squad LOLS
Having been vaguely parenting for two years now, I’ve noticed a few trends pop up in playgrounds and…
more ›Wild imagination
I’m not really a dreamer; You won’t catch me whimsically conjuring up a world of peonies and unicorns…
more ›Girl power
Bedtime tonight ran thus: refusal to go in the house (“I want to go on red bike”), refusal…
more ›Fannying about
She’s a mother, a Diet Coke lover, a TV presenter and the kind of woman whose endearingly grotty…
more ›Harsh reality
I’d love to have glided off into the sunset after quitting my fulltime role at L’Oreal Group as…
more ›Guest of honour
My wedding frock? It was from an aesthetically challenged shop in Haarlem, The Netherlands. It was hidden among a…
more ›Angry bird
Our angry bird columnist and founder of the blog, Brilliantly Ordinary, Michelle Harris, goes to the supermarket dark place
more ›Flexi Mother Pukka
In the end, something had to give. Limited scope for flexible working at her dayjob meant Mother Pukka was spending a…
more ›Cloud nine
The last 18 months have run thus: moved from Amsterdam to London, started new job, quit new job…
more ›Style it out
The minute you embark on project procreation, your style doesn’t suddenly dissolve. Well, it does a bit –…
more ›Miscarriage of (in)justice
Founder of Mother Pukka, Anna Whitehouse talks about miscarriage in Stylist Magazine and why it shouldn’t be the…
more ›Age concerned
This is Mae and Derek from next door, who popped in for lunch yesterday. He is 87-years-old and…
more ›Milkin’ it
It started as a flicker and then went into a pneumatic throb. The eye twitch is the parental…
more ›Working it out
She’s a writer, a runner, a gin drinker, a brand consultant, a mother and totally addicted to the…
more ›Go compare
“When in doubt, check ’em out – GO COMPARE” – if anyone hasn’t heard or seen insurance…
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