The parkrun snowball effect
My daughter and I ran our first parkrun in May 2015. It was the start of a snowball effect leading to a huge number of…
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University: You do you
When young people go away to university, there are so many unwritten rules that well-meaning people are desperate to share with them: Don’t go home…
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Interrailing: A post-exam or gap year adventure
If your year 13 or final year university grown up child is already starting to think about how they might celebrate the end of exams,…
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Making friends with a puppy
Before I had a puppy, I used to see groups of dog owners chatting in the park and assume they were all friends. Of course,…
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‘Not good enough’
I always feel very sad when I look at social media and see photos of women who say they feel ‘not good enough’. Not funny…
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Coronavirus: How did we get here?
Every now and then, even now, I just stop for a second and wonder how the hell did we get here? I look at the…
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Has lockdown ended?
Every week, I give an update on how many weeks into lockdown we are. Six weeks, nine weeks, 11 weeks… But lockdown restrictions have eased…
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My son, travel and worry
My 18 year old son is very adventurous. He did the Three Peaks in under 24 hours at the age of 16. He did a…
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Being teetotal
I’ve mentioned being teetotal a few times over the years in passing, but realise I’ve never written a full post on it. For me, being…
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The politics of kids’ sport
We all know that parenting is political. It starts very young. We’re either the smug ones feeling proud of ourselves that our babies sleep through…
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My biggest teenage parenting struggle
I’m nearly five years into parenting teenagers. I now have three teenagers – one of them nearly an adult, one who is 15 and a…
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The Sport Relief mini triathlon
Sport Relief is a charity we’ve supported as a family for many years. We did the Sport Relief Mile from 2008 to 2016 – increasing our distances…
