Freelancing; peace and quiet, no office politics or water cooler gossip to deal with, no uber boss stifling your creativity…it sounds fabulous doesn’t it? Now add a couple of kids into the mix. Temper tantrums, requests for snacks every ten minutes, the distinctive whiff of a dirty nappy hitting your nostrils just as you were beginning to […]
It’s holiday time again. My first foreign holiday in 2 years. Exciting n’est-ce pas? Well, yes.…I am of course looking forward to much sun, sea and sangria, but I can’t help but feel the first fluttering of anxiety as our departure date draws ever closer. You see, this is the first holiday we’re taking with not […]
I won’t be the first to think it, nor will I be the last, as I have to summon up every last shred of pride I have, to not collapse in a sobbing heap in aisle six of Sainsbury’s: ‘I am trapped in a hell of my own creation; two tiny boys’. The day started extremely and unexpectedly well after hubby […]