I think people sometimes assume when you tell them you live in London that you probably don’t have much access to green space. Well, we live 10 minutes from Waterloo and Victoria, but close to the most fabulous green ...

It’s been a while since a TV ad made me cry – the last one was I think the Thomson Holidays one about time. I thought last Christmas’s John Lewis ad was shamelessly manipulative. But this one from Volkswagen ...

You know I’m a big fan of  Twitter and I think in the three years I’ve been on it the most important lesson I’ve learned is that it’s best to try and avoid public spats if you possibly can. ...

I was doing some tidying up in the spare room yesterday and I found this picture which my son drew of me at primary school. His teacher had all the pictures laminated so it’s kept its colours and it ...

Well obviously preferably with him *cough* but I’m SO in love with Don Draper’s apartment on Mad Men. The Knoll sofa, the Eames chair, the balcony, the fabulous colours (SO into orange) and just that wonderfully retro style. *sigh*

‘The night Max wore his wolf suit.’ I can’t tell you how many times Man of the House and I read those words to No 1 Son when he was little. Where The Wild Things Are was his absolute ...

Excuse the Sally Field moment (although here I am as Kate Winslet – ish), but I’m beyond thrilled that The Mum Blog has made it to the finals of the Brit Mums Brilliance in Blogging Awards. I’m not a ...

I’m very lucky to have been on some truly extraordinary trips, from backpacking with friends across the US after uni to flying upper class to places like Hong Kong and Washington DC. I’ve scuba dived among ruins in Turkey, swum with ...

One of the things you’re advised to do when you’re trying to write novels is to read lots of other books, and so I have been reading and re reading a lot of favourite novels recently. Not the classics ...

I was chatting to a first time mum-to-be the other night and I found myself having to do the verbal equivalent of Sitting On Hands so I didn’t scare her with too many stories about birth, pelvic floors and ...