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Ruban's blog: Holidays are Coming

Growing up as a child, the choral tones of "Holidays are coming" blasting through your home signified the start of the Christmas holidays and yuletide greetings. As a fully grown adult with... Read More

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Susan's blog: Year End Recalibration

Outwardly, I appear to be confident, and to some extent, I am. However it has become more and more clear to me that somewhere over the years I  have allowed myself to skew the lines between... Read More

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Barbara's blog: Decision Fatigue

It’s been a busy few years. Actually, I feel like I have not drawn breath since forever, due to a number of things happening one after the other. It started with my mother-in-law’s death ... Read More

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Linda's blog: Highs and Lows: What a Drama!

Much as I love to go to the theatre, the homework I like to oversee least is drama.  First there's the painful line by line repetition, then the addition of exaggerated expression and finall... Read More

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Anushka's blog: To ski or not to ski, that is the question…

It’s that time of year when we book our group family ski holiday.  I skied once aged 8 on a school trip,  hated it, vowed never to do it again.  As an adult in my ... Read More

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Devinder's blog: The Evil Eye of Toxicity

We all have that person in our lives.  The person who we speak to regularly, maybe daily, maybe even two or three times a day. The person listens, offers solutions, helps us form an opinion or m... Read More

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Lee's blog: In Death as in Life

There are periods in life and in parenting when you don’t even realise you are holding your breath until you finally exhale. I have just come out of such a period. Our childminder died peaceful... Read More

Ashley's blog: Perfect Isn’t Welcoming

One sunny afternoon the kids were helping me tidy up the house in anticipation of some friends coming round. They were in charge of deconstructing their floor is lava obstacle course in the garden an... Read More

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Katie's blog: All Change!

After I had my two children, I seriously considered changing my career. I wanted to pursue my professional interest in psychology. However, it wasn’t straightforward decision. I had a good job ... Read More

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Louise's blog: Stop Chasing the Money

As I hit my 35th birthday this September I also hit that moment in my life where I realised the point of my career was not about ‘the money’.  As I reflect on my career cho... Read More

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Uchenna's blog: "Jesus is coming!"

It’s not the outburst I expected when I unpicked my friend’s four-year-old son from the wall. He knew play was over seeing me stride over after repeated cries to “get off the wall&r... Read More

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Dolly's blog: My Family and Other Animals

It was when the dog ate my almond croissant that I seriously considered going on strike. This was the pastry version of the last straw.  The symbolism of my Saturday morning croissant ... Read More

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Ruth's blog: Town Mice and Country Mice

It’s now the first week of September and by Tuesday we are all back at school and work, for until half term.  Uniforms were dug out, PE kits found, shoes tried on - and that was just the a... Read More

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Ruban's blog: P.S. I Love You

How did three of the shortest words, when combined, make up one of the most powerful phrases known to the human race? The modern slayer of men's confidence, the words that turn them into a quiver... Read More

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Caroline M's blog: Halcyon Days

School starts back next week, and what had appeared as a long road ahead two months ago, has in fact flown. Here in Ireland, the school term finishes even earlier than it did in London. Those school ... Read More

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Barbara's blog: The Line Around Your Thoughts

Daughter has lost her mojo. This time last year she was looking forward to starting college and immersing herself into her subjects of choice: art, graphic design and photography. Fast-forward to tod... Read More

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Linda's blog: Best Laid Plans

It’s one of those watershed moments: our firstborn is starting secondary school in September, she’s just got a phone and she's starting to go out and about on her own. Keen to encoura... Read More

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Anushka's blog: 10 Things That Get Better As We Age

I felt like writing a positive blog in the wake of soon turning 45 and the perimenopause, so here is my list of things that get better as we age. Any others to add, please let me know! 1. Experi... Read More

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Kay's blog: What Have You Chosen: Attachment or Authenticity?

My dad would be walking me down the aisle.  It wasn’t planned that way but the registrar suggested it and we went with it.  I was prepped by the registrar whilst the guests waited on ... Read More

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Lee's blog: Mentoring Me

I have been through many many corporate training days, diversity training days, women in business seminars and management training courses in my career and so feel qualified to create a tick list of ... Read More

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Jill's blog: Life is Not a Fairy Tale

Life is not a fairy tale. I don’t wake up with a full face of makeup, beautifully flowing hair, and a waist the size of a thimble. My husband certainly doesn’t ride around on a fancy... Read More

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Katie's blog: On The Nanny Hunt... Again

Our amazing nanny is pregnant, and whilst I am really pleased for her, it leaves me with a gap… Nannies can be a good option for dual-career couples. Having a nanny at your home with a mo... Read More

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Louise's blog: Learnings From Our First Family Trip Abroad

After not going abroad since May 2019 (just as a couple – oh the luxury!) we decided the time had finally come to venture back into the big wide world and do our first family trip abroad with a... Read More

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Uchenna's blog: AI Say Amen

Question: What do prayers, AI, and psychological safety have in common? Answer: The boldness of Commander-in-Chief-Junior. You have to hand it to eight-year old’s who are developing PhDs f... Read More

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Dolly's Blog: Home

I moved into my first army quarter just before our eldest was born, bribing myself with a Smeg fridge to prove that, despite now having to live in an epicentre of tedium painted entirely in magnolia,... Read More

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Ruth's blog: They Grow Up So Fast

Now that the sun is shining (FINALLY) I can feel the summer holidays approaching and more milestones about to fly past.  Our summer-born son has almost finished Reception (he will still be ... Read More

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Ruban's blog: EmbRACE

A brown man walks into a pub.......is potentially the start of a humorous observation of ethnic mismatches and misunderstandings that would have been acceptable in the 80's, but actually it conti... Read More

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Caroline M's blog: Anniversaries

We are celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary next week. Where did the time go? Being 10 years married makes me feel older than my own age does.  My husband and I were talking in the... Read More

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Barbara's blog: You’ve Got This

By the time you read this blog, Son will have started his GCSEs, the culmination of three sets of mocks over the past year, endless revision sessions – for the students and the parents! - and e... Read More

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Linda's blog: "She's A Proper Mum"

Most of the time I don’t think much about being a working parent or the fact I’m half of a couple of working parents.  Our daily juggle is not remarkable and has been our life f... Read More

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