Our Blog

Steph's blog: How Do You Measure Fairness When Your Children...

How equity, not equality, shapes "fair" parenting choices. Read More

• Parenting and Return to Work

Lynden's blog: Confidence – It’s an Inside Job

Confidence isn't magic, it's mechanics. Read More

• Career, Work and Identity

Anushka's blog: “Sweet Dream or Beautiful Nightmare?’

Beauty myths, pageants, and patriarchy: how romance fantasy masks control. Read More

Barbara's blog: The End Is Where We Start

Barabara rediscovers her parents through an old photograph. My favourite photo of mum and dad is a small, black and white snapshot that I found when I was going through mum’s possessions in her apa... Read More

Eliza's blog: the Father’s Day edition

Overpacked and overheated, but grateful for family, Devon & a great dad. Read More

• Parenting and Return to Work

Dolly's blog: Alive And Kicking

Dolly shares a witty take on getting older: Good Housekeeping and cruises Read More

• Career, Work and Identity

Anna's blog: Wanted: Technology Manager for My Children

Of all my roles in life: comms and marketing, children’s taxi driver, cook, housekeeper, logistics manager, emotional punching bag… managing my children’s screen time is the one jo... Read More

• Parenting and Return to Work

Linda’s Blog: Botox, Barbie And Being The Odd One Out

Watching friends embrace Botox and jabs tests Linda's values and resolve. Read More

• Mental and Physical Health

Sheila's blog: Dropping The Ball

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

• Mental and Physical Health
• Career, Work and Identity

Rachel's blog: Growing a Baby Whilst Billing Time

Rachel shares her reflections before taking maternity leave. Read More

• Parenting and Return to Work

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

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

• Relationships and Divorce

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

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

• Career, Work and Identity

Steph's blog: The Absurdity Of Certainty

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

• Parenting and Return to Work
• Mental and Physical Health
• Career, Work and Identity

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

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

• Mental and Physical Health

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

• Mental and Physical Health

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

• Parenting and Return to Work

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

• Mental and Physical Health

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

• Mental and Physical Health

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

• Parenting and Return to Work

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

• Career, Work and Identity

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

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

• Career, Work and Identity

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

• Bereavement And Loss

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

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

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

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

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

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