I’ve grown reluctantly impressed with the creativity of my invasive thoughts since becoming a Mum. Unfortunately, invasive thoughts...

Is there anything in motherhood as simultaneously obsessively all consuming, and absolutely mind-numbingly BORING as sleep? We wish we...

In the ultimate new mother cliche fulfilment, I’ve put on a fair bit of weight since having my daughter. The weeks after birth, my weight...

There is so much of motherhood that is immediately lost to history. All the things that feel endless in the moment- especially to new...

October 11, 2023 14 weeks (exactly!) I’m at quite a weird point in the pregnancy at the moment. Mostly visually. The inner physical side...

9th October, 2023 13w5d Yesterday, it finally got to me and I cried. Not the joy of child rearing, not the utter profundity of what we...

18th September 2023 10w5d We do not live in a culture accustomed to not knowing. When we have a question, Google has the answer. We do...

September 11 (whoa, heavy date) 9w 5d I’m not entirely sure that my 9th into 10th week of pregnancy was the best time to start a new role...

5th September 2023 8w6d (basically 9 weeks) Okay. This is getting gross now. Have you ever had an illness that lasted for 4 or 5 weeks?...

22nd August 2023 6w4d I already feel like I’ve been pregnant for a lifetime. When else does an illness stick around for such a long time?...

4th August 2023 Yesterday, I found out that I’m pregnant. It wasn’t in the way I’d imagined. At home with my husband, nervously waiting...

I started this blog with obvious ideals in mind (that I have already repeated countless times): 1) as an alternative to social media and...

It comes as a surprise to a strange amount of people that I have a fair few tattoos covering my arms, wrists, hands and thighs. I don't...

I don't think I could have asked for a better way to spend my 30th. It was the culmination of so many things I value, the direction I'm...

Happy 30th to me! So it turns out that when you try to delete Instagram and Facebook, they keep your account open for another month, to...

Figuring out an identity for this site is already proving to be tricky. It's the burden of infinite choice: having a blank slate, a place...

11 days out from my most anticipated birthday in memory, I finally let everyone in on the knowledge that I'm tapping out of the social...

While an unusual gift to give myself for a milestone celebration, deleting my social media accounts seems like the best possible gift I...

As I often tell my Year 10 English students, a classic plot often begins with an exposition. That is, we must first establish what is...