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(Baby) Boom or Bust

I’m a cynical old trout. I’ll always see the ulterior motive to even the most sincere of gestures. I can’t help it. I try and…

A topic that has been mooted over the last few days surrounds the subject of women who don’t have children. Following an article which featured…

This week is Post Natal Depression Awareness Week, an illness that many of you will know strikes a chord with me. I suffered from PND…

I’ve got a bit of a problem when it comes to buying celebrity magazines. Wes is always on at me to curtail my spending habit,…

Pregnancy Police. Baby Bobbies (I coined this one – rather proud of it an’ all, even if I do say so myself!). I would bet…

I’ve found a new woman I admire. Strong, opinionated women who stick to their guns are individuals I stick on something of a pedestal. In a world…

I popped into Sainsburys last night for a few post work purchases, while I was trying to negotiate the self-service checkout without kicking it out…

…..Is a line of a song from one of my all-time favourite bands; Coldplay. It’s also words that keep reverberating around my brain at the…

I’ve found myself in a bit of a quandary, shall we say. It’s not a situation I necessarily need to worry about just yet, but…

I've got something on my mind and unless I write about it, it will reverberate in my brain for days to come. Last night I received…

I'm on a mission. Let me tell you why. Regular readers of my blog will know I wrote a post in August explaining my experience…

Before I begin, I want to make it clear, this blog is not another 'Mum blog', there's plenty of decent ones out there and it's not…