In the bag
The day is nearly upon us, mothers (or at least, it is in the UK), and frankly, I want the gifts.
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Oh, mother
With Mother’s Day coming, it’s time to celebrate the woman without brakes that is Grandmother Pukka
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To the point
The gentle lapping of balmy waters, the chirp of an occasional tropical bird and the harmonious humming of…
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Call of duty
PAPA PUKKA: I used to skip away from daycare with a grin. But as the urchin grows, I’ve become a giant wuss…
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Don’t call me ‘princess’
A blundering diplodocus has made it clear to my daughter, Mae that her mother is nothing more than a princess.
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Feeling challenged
‘Naff’, ‘cringe’, ‘patronising’, ‘uniting’, ‘beautiful’, ‘positive’ – these are a few words pinging about The Internet about the…
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Flex appeal
Most employers make parental life trickier than it needs to be, through a simple lack of imagination…
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Have your cake
It was Bromley Bella Pasta circa 1997 and I was waiting for my cousin. She never turned up,…
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Frock horror
“Don’t cave into any demands for minions T-shirts – it’s £79 smock dresses all the way” – that…
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59 seconds with…
… Kelly Seymour, founder of Cult of Youth She’s a Mama to Elvis (great name right there) and…
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Santa baby
Warning: I am a big Christmas lover, and this is a blog about Christmas. If you are not…
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Nomads land
We’ve been homeless for the last few weeks. That’s a dramatic over-exaggeration for comedic/ attention-seeking effect. The fact…
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Matchy matchy
There’s something a bit Von Trapp about dressing exactly the same as your toddler. Unless, of course you’re…
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59 seconds with…
… Sam Flowers (@samflowers199), beauty editor at Stylist Magazine and mother of Leo 00:01 Day or night? Day…
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Mum’s the word
She’s the co-founder (run with her husband Tom) of aptly-named hat company Shappos and mother to Lilijana, Magnus…
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Angry bird
I love Christmas. Cheesy pop music, melodic carols, twinkling lights, the laughter of children, the magical whimsy of…
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Room service
“Sometimes it’s OK to just shut the door on the crying for five minutes and make yourself a…
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We are family
“In a partnership you can’t both be down at the same time” – those are wise words and…
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Star schmucks
That’s a slightly unfair headline for this ode to coffee. For all their tax-related faults, I don’t think…
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Fight club
I have just returned to Grey London from my second maternity leave. Before I waddled off into the…
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Happy place
Oxford Street. Christmas. Toddler. A traumatic combination. In my mind, tackling London’s retail epi-centre during the festive season…
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Baby daddy
Childbirth is incredible. No, that doesn’t do it justice, let me try again. Childbirth is emotional, jaw dropping,…
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Play it cool
So today we were interviewed in The Evening Standard about making parenting into a profitable career. We’re a…
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Insta-sham?
“Chicken periods scrambled with pig flesh” – that’s how 18-year-old Essena O’Neill (the model who renounced social media…
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Happy hour
When the smoking ban came into effect, there was a lot of blather about pubs smelling like feet….
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Playing stupid
The scene: 6.43pm last Friday night outside Pizza Express. I’d arranged to meet my husband and the urchin…
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Mum’s the word
She’s a yoga lover, vlogger, blogger and works full time as a branding planning manager at Google. Emma…
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