Real Life – This Morning’s #AttachmentParenting feature – Is Katie Hopkins a...
I have written extensively over the years about how women get pulled into debates that divide us. The latest one which received a lot of attention yesterday, 12th November, was on This Morning when...
View ArticleGuest Post: Five easy teatime tummy-fillers
Parenthood is a full-time job and whether you’ve got a hectic work schedule or you’re a busy single parent, it’s tough finding the time to tick everything off your ever-growing to-do list. Prepping and...
View ArticleGUILT-RIDDEN, TORN BETWEEN TWO ROLES AND OVER-LOOKED -The current...
GUILT-RIDDEN, TORN BETWEEN TWO ROLES AND OVER-LOOKED -The current state-of-mind of working mums today *Over three quarters (80%) of women feel guilty about going back to work and worry about leaving...
View ArticleReal Life – If It’s Broke Fix It
On the 1st May 2014 I am withdrawing my book A Modern Military Mother – Tales from the Domestic Frontline. If you want a copy for posterity, then you need to seize the day and buy it now because once...
View ArticleInvest In Me
If I had £5000 to play with I would invest it in my next book ‘I Hate Housework’. A book is a business; a start up. I know that in order to drive sales and get the book into bookshops I need to be able...
View ArticleHilarious Nutty Noah at Sarum Academy, Salisbury, Wiltshire 3rd May, 11am...
Us Trois Presents Hilarious Children’s Entertainer & Proud Pant Wearer Nutty Noah ‘Magic, Music & Mayhem!’ at Sarum Academy, Salisbury, Wiltshire 11am 3rd May 2014 Tickets £6 on the door...
View ArticleGuest Post: Not just a man’s world: famous female drivers
If your idea of a girl’s day out is a million miles away from a spa-based snooze-fest, you’ve probably already got a Ferrari driving experience on your to-do list (if not, why not?). In case you didn’t...
View ArticleReal Life: Latest Book-date and Kids
I am full of good intentions; then the time vacuum sucks up all the minutes, and it’s a vortex of ‘can’t do everything’, but I am slowly wading through treacle and making positive headway. The kids are...
View ArticleReal Life: Unsupportive Wife Ruins One of UK’s Finest Soldier’s Career...
Recently, over lunch I heard an interesting tale about a military drink’s party where the military top brass were bitching like twittering birds amongst their peers about the disappointment they felt...
View ArticleThe War Is Over – #AfghanistanWithdrawal – A Historical View From My Home Front
The war in Afghanistan is finally over for UK Plc, and yesterday the closure of Camp Bastion was announced. I thought as a tribute to a conflict that dominated my family life for over a decade, I would...
View ArticleSport: Five Reasons I’m Looking Forward To Wimbledon
We’re just days away now from one of the most quintessentially British traditions: Wimbledon. Commencing on 29th June, the event will see two weeks of hardcore tennis, strawberries and cream and no...
View ArticleBusiness: I’m Featured in the Guardian Small Business Showcase
Today, I awoke to discover that I have been featured in The Guardian Small Business Showcase. I am very excited by this. I have always wanted to be in The Guardian – ideally featured in their books...
View ArticleWriter: Sneak Preview of My Next Book ‘Looking For Mr Rabbit’
The publishing world of words can feel like a sausage machine. Writers quietly steel themselves away and pen tomes, reveal them to the world, readers devour them or ignore them unaware of the years of...
View ArticleReal Life: Anxiety & Me
Most recently, I have been enduring weeks of being riddled with anxiety. It’s been almost crippling, especially in the face of the need to ‘keep calm and carry on’ and not let my children know that all...
View ArticleReal Life: Happy 8th Birthday to my Blog – AModernMilitaryMother.com
Happy 8th Birthday to my blog! The date of birth is actually 16th May 2010 but I was too busy to celebrate on the actual date and so today will have to do. It’s not like the blog will complain … The...
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