Food glorious food
This is an advertorial post So we’ve all been there: your kid gets presented with a divine plate…
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Money and I have never been firm comrades. It’s bizarre, really, because I was a dedicated, head-braced student (with awkward posture and…
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Ever wondered how eye-twitching, exhausted parents get through the day? Here’s how I keep them alive Let…
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This is an advertorial post It’s the slow, deliberate sweep of food off a plate or table…
more ›Just desserts
It was three years ago on an evening when I’d forgotten I’d invited two mates round for dinner….
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Christmas Eve last year was traumatic. My mum’s fondue set from 1964 blew up in spectacular style –…
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Anyone who has seen my Instagram stories recently can attest to the incubus I’ve become. Snotty, raspy, puffy-faced…
more ›Styling it out
The mum jean. That high-waisted, crotch-ruffling, saggy-bottomed trew. In my mind it’s something I could pull off. In…
more ›Down with the kids
People may have been having kids since before Jesus was born, but that doesn’t make tending to the…
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I was 28 weeks pregnant when I uttered the optimistic and utterly deranged words, ‘let’s renovate the kitchen’….
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I’ve never bagged the prize for excellence, only ever effort. I’d be the one lolloping about at the…
more ›BOOK TOUR: Parenting the Shit out of Life
Book tour dates for Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, The Wirral, Manchester, Bruton and London.
more ›Oh what a night
We wrote a book together called Parenting The Shit Out of Life. Both Matt and I are still…
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Other than the occasional run-in over a dismembered Barbie doll, my sister and I used to mainly…
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My parental agenda is painfully simple: Let her choose. For all the dinosaurs, princesses, blue and pink divides…
more ›Parenting the Shit out of Life: the book
Our book, Parenting the Shit out of Life, is available for pre-order now. It covers the last five years…
more ›Seeing is believing
I’m blind as a bat – even more so since being pregnant. Who knew having kids would…
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“Mama I can do it myself” Those words tend to come from Mae as I’m frazzled and…
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‘Pregnancy’. When did it become such a dirty word? “I’m pregnant”. It sure isn’t in social realms –…
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I don’t think you are ever ready for your card to be declined as you try to buy…
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I’m someone who handles tangible things really well. So if faced with my Mum’s cottage pie, I’m aware…
more ›Dances with dinosaurs
PAPA PUKKA: Number one will soon have some competition for our time. So we went to Kent to sleep with monkeys and dance with dinosaurs.
more ›Power to the mama
I’m not sure why I had such a warped view of motherhood. I assumed it was quite an…
more ›Mini (mini) break
There was a time when a weekend away with mates would mean the booze to food ratio was…
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There was one night when I woke up on the beach outside my hut in Koh Pah-Ngan dribbling…
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“Congratulations” It’s a word used for weddings, engagements, exams results, new homes and births. For me, it’s not…
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I am Lucia, Anna’s from Mother Pukka’s mother and I am writing this with a cupof tea and…
more ›Sock it to ’em
There’s a floodlit football pitch next to Mae’s nursery. It’s opposite the Leyton Orient stadium and it’s…
more ›A real eye opener
I’m seven months knocked up and while the idea of giving life is great and all, there’s The…
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