The Night Feed Is Here: Come On In!

The Night Feed Is Here: Come On In!

After what feels like a two year-long labour birthing an oversized porcupine, my app has finally launched. It has been a something of a trying time and I fear I may have turned into what's known as a shouty person, but The Night Feed is here at last and I'm so proud...

Life Update: My Heart

Life Update: My Heart

A bonus life update, this month, because I promised to tell you how it went with Angelica's first day at school. Whether I cried, whether I fell to my knees sobbing and tried to hold on to her feet as she walked into the classroom... As a matter of fact, I didn't cry...

Life Update: Sobbing, Sneaking and The First Day At School

Life Update: Sobbing, Sneaking and The First Day At School

Angelica starts school tomorrow, but I tell you what feels most weird about today, which is officially known as First Day Of School Eve: the fact that I'm not writing my monthly update in a panic at ten minutes to midnight! Yes that's right, my friends, I'm actually...

Je Suis Pretty Bloody Relaxed

Je Suis Pretty Bloody Relaxed

I've just been away for four days and I didn't do any work at all! Four whole days without my laptop! Taking childbirth out of the equation (and those necessary, blurry months either side) I haven't spent that much time entirely work-free since I went to Florida for...

Life Update: The Prehistoric Printer

Life Update: The Prehistoric Printer

Oh, the shame, the shame: for the first time ever I'm having to postpone my life update and not do it on exactly the right day. (Third of the month.) I'm hoping that the heavens won't fall in or that we won't be sent a plague of poisonous frogs, because I'm very...

Life Update: End of the Baby Era

Life Update: End of the Baby Era

A fleeting break from tradition with this life update because I'm going to be talking mostly about me. My favourite subject. (Joke: I hate talking about myself unless I've had too much wine. In fact, I tend to stop people in their tracks when they try to ask me what I...

Life Update: Red Wine and Muffin Puppets

Life Update: Red Wine and Muffin Puppets

I always have such good intentions for this monthly life update post (in fact even writing the first part of this sentence seems very deja vu), but however hard I try to do things in advance I always end up compiling it at the nth hour on the 3rd day of the month. (It...

Life Update: Linen Changes and Losing My Sh*t

Life Update: Linen Changes and Losing My Sh*t

This could be interesting; I've given myself forty-five minutes to write my monthly life update and I'm writing it, perhaps unwisely, from bed. Because it's bloody freezing isn't it? And we have now entered the month of May, which means that it is now illegal to turn...

Life Update: Watching Paint Dry

Life Update: Watching Paint Dry

Here's Angelica waiting patiently for her nails to dry (kids' polish) whilst watching Teletubbies on the iPad. My heart can't take it, she's so tiny, yet so grown up - imagine what emotional turmoil I'm going to be in when she hits her teens! She's only three, so...

Life Update: Ted Turns Two/Eighty

Life Update: Ted Turns Two/Eighty

Ted is two today, which means that I must have entered some sort of space-time vortex since giving birth to him because I can genuinely say, without a hint of over-exaggeration, that it seems like only last month when I bought him home from the hospital. I can still...

Life Update: Christmas Is Not A Holiday

Life Update: Christmas Is Not A Holiday

Happy New Year everyone! I wasn't supposed to be back at work until at least the 7th January (preferably the 14th) but then I remembered that my life update goes out on the third of every month and my superstitious nature won't let me bend the rules and postpone it....

Life Update: The Things I’ll Miss

Life Update: The Things I’ll Miss

Angelica: started pre-school in September and has aged by around eight years in just three months. I've never seen anything like it. I dropped her off a fine-haired, slightly apprehensive baby, and now she comes back home with all the sass of a teenager after a...

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