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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

• Mid-Life and Menopause

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

• Career, Work and Identity

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

• Career, Work and Identity

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

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

• Parenting and Return to Work

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

• Parenting and Return to Work

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

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

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

• Parenting and Return to Work

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

• Parenting and Return to Work
• Career, Work and Identity

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

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

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

• Parenting and Return to Work

Anushka's blog: Resilience, adaptability and drive – the sil...

We have just returned from a would-be family holiday of a lifetime to Egypt that ended up feeling like more of a trains, planes and automobiles ordeal!  It began with severely delayed flights, a... Read More

• Mental and Physical Health

Kay's blog: Do You Have A Voice?

Since childhood, the two words “Koi Na” have been, metaphorically speaking, tattooed to my forehead. The cultural phrase “Koi Na” translates to either “never mind&r... Read More

• Career, Work and Identity

Katie's blog: Lockdown Doggy

We were one of thousands of households in the UK, seduced into bringing a puppy into our family during the Covid-19 lockdown; perhaps ‘coerced’ would be a more accurate description. My da... Read More

Jill's blog: Privilege vs Luck

One Saturday morning we were looking for something to do with the kids and I suggested to my husband that we go check out Mercedes Benz World. It’s not too far from us, I’ve heard good th... Read More

• Career, Work and Identity

Lee's blog: The Happiness Taboo

I am happy – is that a taboo thing to say as busy working mother of two with a loving although often absent (working and golfing!) husband? I am happy – with my children, they are mo... Read More

Louise's blog: Third Time Lucky

Ten months after coming back from maternity leave I now find myself in job number three. Given that I am not a contractor this has been quite a high number of new starts in under a year! To clar... Read More

Uchenna's blog: Just Two Sleeps

I need to learn from Commander-in-Chief-Junior’s priorities. He woke me up in the middle of the night murmuring something unintelligible about Dracula. When I asked him in the morning what he d... Read More

Dolly's blog: Facing 50

I went to a friend’s very glamorous 50th birthday party last weekend and thought, “God I’m old”.  “Tell me you’re not going to wear your Bush Dress&... Read More

Ruth's blog: How Things Poo

Like fellow contributor Jill , we often struggle to get through the regular homework set by the school.  My daughter claims that homework is not for weekend days at all, which is a good an... Read More

Ruban's blog: Divided Attention

"It's not fair". The soundtrack of our (parenting) lives, the title of my memoirs, the last line on the end credits scene at my funeral.   When you have siblings, life is... Read More

Caroline M's blog: Tempus Fugit

There is a bit of a pinch to turning 40. It’s the age that you think of in your 20s as people having their life organised, and settled, and having disposable income! Now that I am looking down ... Read More

Barbara's blog: Choices and Sacrifices

The first thing I noticed, when I walked back into mum’s apartment in Savona, after she passed away last November, was the familiar smell of a home I had not been in for a while. I closed my ey... Read More

Linda’s blog: Roses are red

As with most things in life, Valentine’s Day has meant something different to me during different periods in my life. I remember the fear as a teenager that I might not receive any cards, along... Read More

Fiona's Blog: When We See Our Parents Die…

I could never have imagined life without my dad and my mother-in-law. My parents lived quite a distance away, and visits were not as frequent as I would have liked. But my dad had been a strong figur... Read More

• Bereavement And Loss

Anushka's blog: Tattoos and Thinking for Oneself

My schoolfriends and I have a tradition on every 10-year anniversary since we left school, the last one being in 2017, we make predictions as to ‘who is most likely to’ for the next decad... Read More

Jill's Blog: Don't Let Homework Define Your Parenting Skills

Now that I am doing my best to actually talk to other grownups at school pickup, I’m hearing much of the same frustration across the playground. One of the most common themes is Homework. ... Read More

• Parenting and Return to Work

Jill's blog: Stop the Presses I’ve Made a Friend!!

Why is this such a big deal in grown up age? I’m not going to lie, my social life took a hit during Covid. Everything changed. My community, my routine, my job, my personality… all of it... Read More