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Barbara's blog: She who dares...

Last April I secured a promotion, after a round of interviews where I had to face some tough c...

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Dolly's blog: What doesn't kill you, makes you str...

I can’t lie - it’s not been a good few months.  In edited highlights, our loc...

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Linda's blog: The dangers of rose tinted glasses

Last autumn, still raw with guilt for prioritising work over my children during lockdown, I vo...

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Jon's Blog: We're all going on a summer holiday

It feels like the summer holiday has taken up more than its usual share of time and energy thi...

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Uchenna's blog: Diary of a burgeoning activist

When I first heard my daughter, Commander-in-Chief Senior, utter "maybe later?" in r...

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Sonya’s Blog: Returning to the office after a pand...

When I returned to work after having my son in 2016, I found the process really stressful and ...

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Victoria's blog: Feeling valued

In my previous post, I looked forward to some nice routine surgery for a break from my work an...

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Ruth's blog: Last week of term

I am writing this on Monday evening, this being the last week that my daughter will spend in R...

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Maggie's blog: Masks off, diary full, so why am I ...

As I write this Boris has just announced that from 19th July masks, and all of the other COVID...

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Becoming a Working Parent

Laura Nakano and Abigail Hadley from Accenture talk to us about the transition to working paren...

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Marion's blog: One hour at a time

This pandemic has been raging on now for what feels like forever, but in reality, is a little ...

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Brendan's blog: Being a Dad at 18 months

It's been an eventful year and a bit since becoming a new dad, and the fun and new ex...

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Caroline M's blog: Failing

I suspect I won’t be alone in saying there were many days throughout the lockdowns where...

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Ally's blog: Your back-to-the-office training prog...

At one point the declaration was made that the office was dead - long live WFH!  But no s...

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Ruban's blog: A Hybrid World: Looking forward to g...

As the thought of being crushed to death in those tube-shaped sweatboxes loom large on the hor...

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Eternity Leave

Simon Kettlewell has spent the last 20 years raising and caring for his 4 children. His latest ...

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Barbara's blog: The persistence of memory

My Italian mother broke her femur on 23 June 2020, just as lockdown was easing in Italy. She s...

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Dolly's blog: London baby

And it goes a little something like this…    After 15 months maroon...

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Struggle: Finding the Light in Darker Times

Productivity specialist and author Grace Marshall talks to us about her new book 'Struggle' and...

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Linda's Blog: Let's talk about grief

Trigger warning: grief In a few weeks it will be the 5th anniversary of my mum&rsq...

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Jon's blog: Meh?

There's something about the word "meh" that just tickles me.  It's so c...

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Uchenna's blog: Life lessons from the tooth fairy

When we run out of household items these days, the tooth fairy is our go-to banker. A lov...

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Sonya’s Blog - Friends at two metres

My son started school in September 2020.  Whilst it was in the midst of global pandemic i...

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Victoria's blog: Burning out

I like googling the symptoms of ‘burn out’ during my copious free time. It gives m...

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