Age of consent
How do you feel about sharing photos of your kid/s on the internet? It’s a question I get…
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Glow with the flow
How do you get through the day? I’m not sure who’s asking but I’m telling: my life…
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Come fly with me
I remember flying to Amsterdam on my own last year. I was without Mae and without The Stuff….
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Ready to pop
Despite a lovely (and possibly well-meaning) old lady on the bus yesterday saying, ‘you are definitely carrying a…
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In the bag
I remember my husband Matt venturing into Chanel the day before my birthday. (It was noted it was…
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Power to the flower
The ‘mum guilt’ is a wily mistress; she creeps up on you when you least expect it….
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Dream team
This is no brown-nosing exercise, nor is it fan girling. At a push it’s fan nosing. But I’ve…
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At a total loss
First published in The Telegraph. All copyright reserved. I was walking through the baby food aisle at Tesco…
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Time to man up
I am disappointed to reveal that there hasn’t been much excitement for me in the toilet arena over…
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Flex it up
PAPA PUKKA: Tackle the most common objections to flexible working (or resort to insults) with this simple guide
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My big fat Greek holiday
I had vague memories of sandy, baking hot campsites in the South of France growing up where you’d…
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Dolly mixture
How a dinosaur turned me into an accidental feminist, and why I’m going on the woman’s march
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Gang(mum) style
Pa Whitehouse imparted some advice when I was a feral youth: “Don’t look up to people and don’t…
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Just a flex machine
We’ve flash mobbed, we’ve talked, we’ve emoji-ed, we’ve DM-ed, we’ve hugged it out and we’ve worked out there…
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Bump in the road
I posted an Instagram story before Christmas showing us post-baby scan. The news was good, the tears were…
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A game changer
‘Tis the season to be jolly? In theory yes, it is. In reality it tends to be a…
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Reel good times
It’s such a relief that you can finally succumb to screen time over Christmas. We’re not talking a…
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A man’s guide to miscarriage
Miscarriage is often spoken about by women. Of course, women endure the physical pain of passing an ‘inviable…
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Let’s talk about flex
There’s been plenty of chat and a fair bit of flash dancing action. (See our Lycra-swathed Flex Appeal…
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Flex appeal: Deloitte
Flexible working? Think ‘agile’ working, according to Emma Codd, Deloitte’s managing partner for talent. Here Emma talks us…
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Mad about the #AD
Whoever you are on the t’Internet (@wanktank or @princesskindheartunicorn), you sometimes see a flicker of #AD or #SPON…
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Reality check
“Papa, can you put that on?” [Mae pointing to my bra on the floor of the bathroom]. “No,…
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Staying in IN
“Where shall we go next?” – I remember hearing that from a bunch of carefree girls (we shall…
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Raise them higher
Dear Mae, It’s 8.03am on 9 November 2016. You are loved. By parents and grandparents who believe in equality, by an…
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Get your freak on
Halloween: Out of all 365 days, it’s the pinnacle of my year – even though Matt (@papa_pukka) resists….
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Memory lane
“Cwoowella Dooville?” queried Mae after hearing my Mum (@grandmother_pukka) say I’d been scared of that Disney baddie…
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