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Perfect day 27 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
For a while we’ve been saying we wanted to go somewhere to watch the sunset and we always want to go to the beach, so yesterday we headed over to St Annes. We left late to, we hoped, avoid the Bank H...
Writing course: Beyond the first draft 22 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
I’m running another online course. Oh yes I am. So you’ve finished your first draft. Yay! And congratulations. Do you know how many people finish writing a novel? No, nor do I, but it’s nowhere near ...
Crushing joy: being a parent, being a child 20 Aug 2013 | 02:56 pm
Last weekend, we went to stay at my sister’s house while she was away (treating it as a free hotel, basically). My sister’s house used to be my house, our family house. Our parents bought it when I wa...
Feminism Friday: We should all be feminists – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 16 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEDx talk covers sexism, systems of oppression, masculinity and more and it’s powerful, funny and inspirational. I know 30 minutes seems like a lot, but it doesn’t ...
A trailer for a film I’m never going to watch 13 Aug 2013 | 03:51 pm
Last week, we went to the cinema to see The Heat and one of the trailers was for a film called 2 Guns. A couple of minutes into the trailer I said, as I am wont to do these days, “Are there any women...
Lips like clouds: confessions of a Brosette 9 Aug 2013 | 01:20 pm
Since Bros are in the news, I thought I’d repost this. It was originally published on Dollymix in 2007 (2007!). If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll have seen this (probably more than once)...
If he’s got a doll, he must be a girl. 8 Aug 2013 | 08:13 pm
The other night I was putting Joe in bed, he started crying and said he wanted to be a girl. I said okay and then asked why. I said, “What do you think girls can do that you can’t do?” He said, “Play ...
Happy Home Ed: Juggling 6 Aug 2013 | 01:31 pm
Someone – I think it was Siân (sorry if not) – asked me this aaaaaages ago: Have you written anything about the practicalities, about how you manage your working life/writing/you-time alongside homes...
Feminism Friday: Hair 2 Aug 2013 | 02:43 pm
Facebook ad for Veet Hair Removal. “The view we signed up for”? Seriously?! I’ve been promising (threatening?) to write this for so long that a couple of brilliant articles have actually pre-empted a...
July… 31 Jul 2013 | 01:53 am
… has been quite a month. I haven’t been blogging for the past couple of weeks and I’m struggling to get back into it, so I thought I’d just post my favourite July photos instead.
