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Sheila's blog: Dropping The Ball

Sheila shares how dropped balls signal overload, not failure. Read More

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Rachel's blog: Growing a Baby Whilst Billing Time

Rachel shares her reflections before taking maternity leave. Read More

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Jill's blog: What’s on the Other Side?

An honest account of divorce, resilience and starting again. Read More

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Kira's blog: The Perfectly Imperfect Four-Day Week

Balancing motherhood and career through a four-day working week. Read More

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Steph's blog: The Absurdity Of Certainty

Balancing motherhood and career through a four-day working week. Read More

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Lynden's blog: How I Found Community (and a Reason to Bake M...

Volunteering, community and finding purpose beyond the day job. Read More

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Anushka's blog: The Best Advice I Ever Got: Don’t Put All Yo...

Well, the actual advice was to always keep four distinct pots on the boil in life.  These four pots are: Your friends and family Your career* An academic pursuit that isn&r... Read More

Barbara's blog: From A Class To A Glass

Son recently announced that he had declined his place at university, where he would have studied International Wine Business. I was relieved and disappointed in equal measures and also not surprised.... Read More

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Dolly's blog: My Driving And Other Disasters

What is it with middle aged women and a fear of driving?  Fact:  I'm a good driver who hasn't even scraped a car let alone had an accident.  Reality: I've just emerged from... Read More

Eliza's blog: Exploring Naples

It felt only right to start my blog with a sourdough update. Arguably this hobby is now taking over my life, but I don’t hate it… One of my goals for 2026 was to perfect making sourdough... Read More

Lee's blog: Please Complete Your Objectives

I always feel reflective around birthday seasons in our household – I try to take the opportunity to reflect on whats been happening in a seemingly constantly forward moving scheme.  What ... Read More

Linda’s blog - Speak Up, Call It Out

It’s so common that I’m the only woman in a meeting that I rarely notice but from time to time it hits me in the face and I wonder how this can still be possible in 2026. I work in financ... Read More

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Rachel's blog: Hope restored under the arches – a good news ...

Last Monday night was a special one for me; but not for the reasons you might expect. Standing outside, under some once forgotten railway arches, a stone’s throw from the city centre and i... Read More

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Sheila's blog: Yin and Yang

Living with MS has made one thing unavoidable: life does not stabilise. There are days when my body feels generous. There are days when it feels unpredictable. Energy rises and falls. Plans chan... Read More

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Jill's blog: The Last Goodbye

By the time this blog gets published, it will be just over a year since the death of my father. It’s been a bit of a rollercoaster of 12 months. Between the grief, the logistics of executi... Read More

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Kira's blog: The Dubai Dilemma

When Opportunity Meets Family Responsibility Sitting on our sofa one warm June afternoon, our living room was filled with excitement and a sense of adventure. I’d spoken over the phone wit... Read More

Steph's blog: Great Expectations

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching,” Dickens wrote — but it took an unlucky roll of the genetic dice for me to realise that expectations, specifically the unmet ki... Read More

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Lynden's blog: When January Changed Shape

Growing up in Australia, January was the month that shimmered. It was sun‑bleached days, bare feet on hot pavement, long holidays, and the delicious feeling that the year hadn’t quite begu... Read More

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Anushka's blog: New Year's Running Goal

Why My New Year’s Resolution of improving my 5km running time was not as easy as I thought. I am not sure I believe in New Year’s Resolutions. I think if you want to change some... Read More

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Barbara's blog: Wintering

Two weeks ago, we celebrated Daughter’s 20th birthday. She has now entered her third decade and is no longer a teenager. She has been home from university for the Christmas holiday, and it has ... Read More

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Dolly's blog: Foxy Business

As my 17-year-old son offered to scrape the decayed remnants of a dead fox off the boiler room floor in return for cash, I contemplated the upside of one's children growing older.    ... Read More

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Eliza's blog: Out With The Old, In With The New.

I have finally sat down after sorting out all the bits and bobs that have accumulated in my childhood bedroom over the last few years. I don’t know why but now this seems to be an annual thing ... Read More

Lee's blog: And That's a Wrap...

The year is almost at an end, or it already is depending on when you are reading this. The trend of wrapping up the year is definitely not a new one but this year it seems to have exploded. ... Read More

Linda's blog: Linda’s Blog: Traditions Old and New

Christmas has always been a happy and important time for me. It has nothing to do with Jesus and certainly not presents, instead it’s a time to celebrate family and enjoy uninterrupted time tog... Read More

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Christina's blog: Are You OK?

It’s a question we hear all the time. I ask it often too, but honestly, it’s one of my least favourite questions. Most of the time it doesn’t give us space to be truthful. Instead, ... Read More

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Rachel's blog: Jingle All The Way

Throughout December I really enjoy watching Christmas films – new or old. I love seeing the snowy scenes and decorations in the latest cheesy Hallmark flick but also the nostalgia of the Home A... Read More

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Sheila's blog: To Just Be

Thanksgiving has just passed, and instead of sitting with gratitude in the usual way, I found myself thinking about the small exchanges that shape a year. Not the big celebrations, but the moments wh... Read More

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Jill's blog: The Lack Of Inspiration

What do you do when you just can’t find the ‘why’? The thing that kicks you into gear and gets you moving in whatever direction you need to be heading. Or any direction at all, real... Read More

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Anushka's blog: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

I recently left a job after 14 years and, whilst weighing up the decision, I realised that much of the thought processes were akin to leaving a long-term relationship.  Whilst many people can&rs... Read More

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Barbara's blog: Still Their Safe Place

The other day I came across an old episode of Sex and the City, in which Charlotte and Miranda talk about their experiences of motherhood. Taking it in turn to sip their cocktail, they become brutall... Read More

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