Browsing Tag

mum

  • Please stop calling it mummy porn

    Tweet I was dismayed to learn that the phrase ‘mummy porn’ has now entered the Collins online dictionary. Not because I’m a prude, but because I loathe the whole concept of ‘mummy porn.’ It…

    September 13, 2012
  • Motorola DEFY MINI review

    Tweet Pre Pomme-phone, I was a Motorola girl. I LOVED my Razr (and not just because of the David Beckham ads). I had a black one, and then a plum one, and I adored the…

    August 29, 2012
  • A blog post for my son

    Tweet I can still remember the expression on your face when you woke up on Christmas morning and saw your first Big Boy Bicycle in the sitting room. You clasped your little hands together…

    August 15, 2012
  • My precious

    Tweet I think that one of the reasons I’m so protective of No 1 Son, one of the reasons I’ve always wanted to wrap him in cotton wool, is because he was quite delicate…

    August 1, 2012
  • I refuse to play the Competitive Mum game

    Tweet A few weeks ago I bumped into the mum of one of No 1 Son’s friends (we’ll call him Jimmy). ‘How is the revision going?’ she asked me. ‘I’m not sure he’s doing…

    June 29, 2012
  • A portrait of me by my son, aged five

    Tweet 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…

    May 10, 2012
  • Go Granny

    Tweet This photo was taken by the Press Association on a demo in the early Seventies. It appeared in newspapers at the time, and it has appeared in magazines since. The woman in the…

    July 6, 2011