Sisterhood (and all that) ⋆ Don't Buy Her Flowers

08 Jun

Business & work, Motherhood

Switching off

I’d love to say that last week I took an intentional break from the internet, that I was using a family holiday to...

8 Comments

21 Feb

Motherhood, Sisterhood

What do you wish you could tell yourself as a new mum?

Hindsight is indeed a wonderful thing. I can look back at the time after both my babies were born and rationalise my behaviour,...

13 Comments

24 Jan

Men and Relationships, Motherhood

With this ring, I give you my dregs

I always thought I’d be one of those women that would call my husband a mother fucker in labour and vow never to...

16 Comments

30 Nov

Business & work, Motherhood, Sisterhood

Just a mum?

5th December was Small Business Saturday, a day to celebrate the 5 million small businesses we have in the UK, and encourage everyone...

A change is as good as a rest?

I’ve never been good with change. As kids we used to spend lots of time in Dorset with our cousins. On the morning...

13 Comments

14 Aug

Motherhood, Sisterhood

What I wish I’d known before I became a parent

I feel a bit weird writing this as I know I am nowhere near ‘knowing’ all I need to know as a mother....

Light at the end of the tunnel

When my babies were smaller I often looked to women a few years further down the line for reassurance; that they had also...

20 Comments

24 Apr

Sisterhood

No room at the school

It was national offers day for primary school places on Thursday last week. We’d looked at local schools and put six on the...

58 Comments

29 Mar

Men and Relationships

The Dirty Weekend

A night in a hotel used to mean one thing and it wasn’t how quickly we could get our review up on Trip...

41 Comments

22 Feb

Motherhood, Sisterhood

Sisterhood – one year on

It’s almost one year since I started this blog. My first post set out that I wanted to write about the shared experiences...

22 Comments

01 Feb

Motherhood

The Public Meltdown

This week there was a story in the press about a stranger in his 50s leaving a mother £5 with a note that...

28 Comments

11 Dec

Men and Relationships, Sisterhood

Peace on earth

So this is Christmas. A joyful time of year when we see all our family and friends and feel merry and thankful.

30 Comments

09 Nov

Business & work, Motherhood, Sisterhood

Don’t Buy Her Flowers

So here we are. The Sisterhood (and all that) blog has a new home, and I have launched a business – Don’t Buy...

57 Comments

17 Oct

Business & work, Motherhood, Sisterhood

What do I ‘do’ now?

If someone had suggested before I had kids that I might feel differently about my working life after they were born, I probably...

29 Comments

26 Sep

Men and Relationships, Sisterhood

The Weekend Row

It’s Saturday morning, we haven’t seen a lot of each other all week what with work and wrestling kids to bed and sitting...

44 Comments

29 Aug

Motherhood, Sisterhood

The Post-Baby Comeback

During my first pregnancy, in those moments when I wasn’t tired, I found myself plotting my comeback. And it was going to be...

40 Comments

27 Jul

Motherhood, Sisterhood

Are you beach ready?

In the run up to summer, it can be hard to avoid the constant reminder that we’re a bit out of shape and...

25 Comments

27 Jun

Men and Relationships, Sisterhood

Doug, cancer and me

Another person I love had their world rocked by cancer recently.

66 Comments

11 Jun

Motherhood, Sisterhood

#7daysofreality

This post – proposing #7daysofreality – is over on The Telegraph’s ‘Mother Tongue’ site here #100happydays took off at a time when I...

14 Comments

25 May

Motherhood

Holidays or hellidays?

Nothing demonstrates with quite such clarity the difference in your world, and that you are no longer the centre of it, as going...

25 Comments

12 May

Sisterhood

Does Feminism need sisterhood?

I feel a little terrified of writing about Feminism. I haven’t read tonnes of feminist literature. I don’t understand all the different views,...

15 Comments

04 May

Motherhood, Sisterhood

A letter to a new mum

If a friend has previously holidayed somewhere you’ve booked to go to, you’d fully expect them to give you their thoughts on how...

22 Comments

25 Apr

Men and Relationships

Do new dads get a bad rap?

If new mums are often angry, how are the men faring in this? Is it a bed of roses for them…?

17 Comments

11 Apr

Motherhood

When new mums get angry

When you’re pregnant, advice is pointed at you from every direction and the phrase ‘things change you know’ is used a lot by...

51 Comments

05 Apr

Sisterhood

Hang ups that should be hung up

Nearly every woman I know has some physical ‘thing’ that has caused anxiety since her teenage years, however ridiculous or unimportant it might...

25 Comments

28 Mar

Motherhood

A Mother’s Day Resolution

Mother’s Day – one of the annual events where we hope to get a lie in, breakfast in bed or maybe lunch out...

20 Comments

21 Mar

Sisterhood

#nomakeupselfie 1, Haters 0

Yesterday morning I woke up to a Facebook page scattered with ‘no make up selfies’. In case you’ve missed it, the premise is...

29 Comments

16 Mar

Motherhood

The Post-Baby Fog

My experience of the emotions that come post-baby have left me with the view that there is a spectrum from ‘Baby Blues’ to...

45 Comments

02 Mar

Men and Relationships, Motherhood

Could domestic chores be the new foreplay?

We’re often led to believe that women are very complicated creatures. We might get huffy for seemingly nothing. There will be a reason,...

34 Comments

20 Feb

Sisterhood

Welcome to Sisterhood…

So what is this sisterhood malarkey I speak of? We all find things hard. Without exception, I don’t know one woman that has found marriage...

50 Comments