
Single Mum Speaks
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This blog is the story of my journey to motherhood, and life as a single mother by choice. An unconventional journey to parenthood, accompanied by plenty of laughs.
Single Mum Speaks
5y ago
I try to keep a very clear dividing line between my professional and personal life, and therefore over the years I have rarely, if ever, spoken about my professional life on this site, which is very much a personal blog. However, not only is the line between the professional and personal becoming ever more blurred...
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Single Mum Speaks
5y ago
It is 11.03pm and Piglet might be in bed. I say might be as he has been fighting sleep for two and a half hours and probably still isn’t quite there yet. Up to bed, teeth cleaned, pyjamas on. The pyjamas have been on all day so at that part at least took a bit...
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Single Mum Speaks
5y ago
When the world got bad, I decided to stop writing. And then the world got even worse, so I started again. I mean, I’m sure you all really need yet another angst-filled blog post about how tough life can be when you’re under virtual house arrest in your reasonable suburban end-of-terrace, enjoying an extended period...
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Single Mum Speaks
6y ago
My mother, in her sometimes a little too plain-speaking manner, once told me that blogging was a futile pastime because no one wants to read about other people’s boring lives. She was wrong, of course. People love reading about other people’s boring lives, just as they enjoy watching other people’s boring lives on TV, and...
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Single Mum Speaks
6y ago
I was never much into sport as a child. Any kind of physical activity left me cold. Mainly because I would stand on the freezing sports field shivering in my PE kit refusing to have any part in it. Piglet, I am happy to say, is not like this. Piglet talks a good game. Piglet...
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Single Mum Speaks
6y ago
Another day, another outrage. The current big hitter in the outrage stakes is the news that Alabama is banning abortion in all circumstances. As you do. Or at least, as you do when you want to roll back to the bucolic idyll of the 1950s, when men were men, and women were subservient housewives last...
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Single Mum Speaks
6y ago
I recently found myself on the Topshop website. I love Toppers. I mean, I really love it. I swore off it for a bit when Philip Green was accused of whatever-the-last-thing-he-was-accused-of was, and lasted all of a month. I decried the false gods of Fast Fashion and swore I would only buy second-hand (VINTAGE, DAAHLING)...
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