First published by Project Calm Magazine, Summer 2019. (Gorgeous) illustration credit @esthercurtisdesign Sisters are like salad. They are not always what you’d choose, but they are good for you. While I am told that there’s scientific evidence proving that having sisters is good for your health there is absolutely no science behind what I have…
Coronavirus is changing the world. It’s changing the way we live our lives in a very real and physical way. It’s changing the way we think. It’s changing lives in the biggest possible way. People are dying. It is heart-breaking. Nothing will make that less so. But good stuff is also happening alongside all of…
I am about to start the first day of my last year as a 30-something. So as well as starting a brand new decade, I am also feeling the significance of a huge personal decade coming to an end. Life has changed in those 9 years and that is the understatement of the decade. I…
I am on a train hurtling towards London. Child-free. For two blissful hours. It is the equivalent of a mini break to Ibiza. English countryside is flying by like a familiar magic carpet – except I haven’t actually set foot on this part of my motherland. I don’t know it, but it offers the comfort…
Mum died on 15th January 2019. Her death is the most heart-breaking, life-affirming, devastating, relieving, shocking, inevitable, tearful, love-filled experience I have ever had. And I am writing about it not because I want sympathy, or likes or to shock. But because I believe that this is something that as human beings, we need to…
I’ve been missing in action in this little space I created for myself to exist and broken all my own rules about showing up here regularly. Which is a bit ironic given the reason why. But I have a good excuse. The dog did not eat my homework. Nor did a chicken. But that would…
Time is a slippery beast. Because somehow, we have been in Switzerland for half a year and I genuinely don’t know how that has happened. But at the same time as it feeling like it was yesterday, I look back to that heady Easter weekend when we arrived with a newborn and toddler and as…
Having a toddler that could argue that black is white and vice versa (and win) isn’t just annoying. It’s also a little bit true (stay with me). And living in Switzerland is another reminder that even if black is black and white is white, there’s this huge area in between that’s a bit of both.…
This is the week that the England footie boys redefined failure as success. And I LIKE it. Not just because it enables me to frame the last few weeks as successful (*more on this to follow) but because it’s something I honesty, honestly believe in. Becoming responsible for small humans required me to completely redefine…
New countries and children have a fantastic ability to make you feel stupid. Because there’s nought quite like the curiosity of a child or a new language, culture, place to remind you just how much you don’t know. So, for someone whose recurring stress dream is sitting in the exam you haven’t revised for (geek,…
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