Sisterhood Archives ⋆ Don't Buy Her Flowers

Mother’s Day charity: why Kicks Count

“Kicks Count is one amazing charity! Its main aim is to raise awareness about baby[...]

03
Mar

After the march

Yesterday I joined 100k women, men and children in London – and millions around the[...]

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22
Jan

It’s good to talk

I was reading the Metro on the train yesterday, and saw an article with Adele[...]

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02
Nov

Steph talks about being a new mum, business and the importance of honesty.

It’s not hard to get me talking, especially on the subjects of the business and[...]

06
Oct

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[...]

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21
Feb

Just a mum?

5th December was Small Business Saturday, a day to celebrate the 5 million small businesses[...]

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30
Nov

A change is as good as a rest?

I’ve never been good with change. As kids we used to spend lots of time[...]

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13
Sep

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’[...]

14
Aug

No room at the school

It was national offers day for primary school places on Thursday last week. We’d looked[...]

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24
Apr

Sisterhood – one year on

It’s almost one year since I started this blog. My first post set out that[...]

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22
Feb

Peace on earth

So this is Christmas. A joyful time of year when we see all our family[...]

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11
Dec

Don’t Buy Her Flowers

So here we are. The Sisterhood (and all that) blog has a new home, and[...]

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09
Nov

What do I ‘do’ now?

If someone had suggested before I had kids that I might feel differently about my[...]

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17
Oct

The Weekend Row

It’s Saturday morning, we haven’t seen a lot of each other all week what with[...]

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26
Sep

The Post-Baby Comeback

During my first pregnancy, in those moments when I wasn’t tired, I found myself plotting[...]

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29
Aug

Are you beach ready?

In the run up to summer, it can be hard to avoid the constant reminder[...]

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27
Jul

Doug, cancer and me

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

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27
Jun

#7daysofreality

This post – proposing #7daysofreality – is over on The Telegraph’s ‘Mother Tongue’ site here[...]

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11
Jun

Does Feminism need sisterhood?

I feel a little terrified of writing about Feminism. I haven’t read tonnes of feminist[...]

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12
May

A letter to a new mum

If a friend has previously holidayed somewhere you’ve booked to go to, you’d fully expect[...]

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04
May

Hang ups that should be hung up

Nearly every woman I know has some physical ‘thing’ that has caused anxiety since her[...]