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Continue reading → : 11Eyes are rolled at me on a regular, but not quite hourly, basis. When I proffered a birthday badge I was told, rather scathingly, that such things are not worn to school in Year Six. But I was still addressed as Mummy.
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Continue reading →: Traversing the Stanchions of Conspiracy, Anger and Suspicious StenchWe are all united in our waiting, sympathetic to those who clearly have it worse (man with walker, couple separated from fresh underpants, a family from Guam who are hauling about 15 packing crates on their trolleys) but at the same time, there is a mutual understanding that we have…
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Continue reading →: The (Middle) Child Left in the DarkDo read The Girl with the Green Eyes first, otherwise you will be very confused about the sounds and sights haunting Ariana. Or indeed who the f*ck Ariana is.
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Continue reading →: Reasons why my kids woke me upThe year has had a rocky start, but there have been some funny moments (and by funny, I mean that special type of parenting funny where you have to laugh otherwise you will fucking cry)
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Continue reading →: Thank You for the MusicI never thought of myself as a baby music class person… but now it’s eight years later and all the songs are stuck in my head!
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Continue reading →: Come on in, the water’s horrible……it’s also cold, strange and probably infused with far more human waste than one would care to think about. But here I am in it anyway, thigh-deep and shivering in the shallows of the toddler training pool, my voice skewed into shrillness as I attempt to lure my reluctant toddler…
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Continue reading →: Local & Free: The Green Giant TrailFor this, the first of my new Local & Free series of posts, I chose something that instantly piqued my interest as soon as I spotted it on a local attractions site. The Green Giant Trail can be found in Tarman’s Copse (and continues in Wykery Copse) in Jennett’s Park,…
Overthinking motherhood, writing & everything in between since 2010
Hello,
I’m Jenny
I started this blog in 2010 as part of my journalism studies and have been loudly overthinking here ever since. What began as a student project has grown to encompass (somewhat unexpected) motherhood, publishing novels and building a freelance editorial career. This is a space where I navigate life’s ups, downs and messy in-betweens and attempt not to take any of it too seriously.
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