First impressions of someone you follow online can be weird. I find it’s often split into two camps: you think, yep, you’re the exact same person I see on my phone every day, which I always think is quite a comforting realisation. Or you’re baffled at the difference between the on-screen personality and their real-life counterpart.
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14 Tips for the Single Parent After A Divorce
These days divorce does not mean the end of your life, an absolute loss of…
The Back-Up Plan Podcast: Episode Three, Cat Sims
Cat Sims, AKA Not So Smug Now, Is an honest-talking breath of Instagram fresh air whom I’ve admired online for a good long while. Writing about family life with two daughters and a musician husband, Jimmy, since 2014, Cat’s online presence has become a place of support and solidarity for her close-knit community of mothers.
On Aging
I can pretty confidently say – and I know I’m not the only 30-something (how…
Fictional maybe, but expensive all the same
Can fictional characters with fictional jobs afford their fictional houses if real world economics were…
Single Mum? We All Need Life Insurance
Today, I have a guest post from fellow single mum Gemma Holloway of life insurance broker Reassured about a subject that should be important to all of us, Life Insurance. Take it away, Gemma…
The Back-Up Plan Podcast, Episode 2: Asma Khan
There are so many things to say about the day I interviewed Asma Khan, founder of the Carnaby restaurant Darjeeling Express and the only Briton to have been featured on Netflix’s hit show ‘Chef’s Table’.
How To Run A Charity Event Like A Boss
As the kids get older and time becomes more available to me (having brought up…