Tweet “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792 It’s International Women’s Day today, and this year there’s…
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Tweet The theme of this week’s Gallery is ‘happy’. And one of my favourite photos from the past 18 months has to be this one of the Gallery owner herself, Tara Lara*, along with…
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Tweet No 1 Son was about 18 months old when I was asked to go on a work trip abroad for the first time. There were two reasons I didn’t feel I could turn…
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Tweet I can’t believe that a week on Sunday I’m off to the Caribbean with this lot. I first got to know them on a trip to Florida and since then we’ve become great…
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Tweet An increasing number of mums are taking out payday loans to pay for Christmas, resulting in colossal debt problems which they can’t get out of and incredible emotional stress. What a desperate situation.…
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Tweet I don’t usually get angry watching XFactor because let’s face it, most of the time it’s pretty fluffy TV. But last night Cheryl Cole and Gary Barlow made me very cross indeed. One…
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Tweet This morning I got up for the school run at 6.50am as usual, having been awake since 6.20am for fear of oversleeping. I made breakfast for No 1 Son, fed the dog and…
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Tweet On Monday I attended a debate with several high profile women, all mums. We were discussing the notion of sisterhood, and one of the women said that she felt many women are not…
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Tweet I told you recently about how my mum was a women’s libber in the Seventies. What I didn’t tell you was that she also helped run a women’s refuge, one of the first…