I am obviously currently at my computer. My husband is down the road camping. It’s a school camping night and it has taken over our entire weekend. Yesterday, I spent nearly all the morning getting everything ready. First of all, could I find our tent? No I could not. I could fine the tent poles, [...]

I want to thank everyone who commented on the last blog. It’s really been so helpful. I think this is the point of Mumsnet/blogging etc. Finally you feel you are not alone. We all experience our children differently. One person’s genius is another’s average child. It is impossible to be objective about your own children [...]

Am I alone here? I woke up the other day, paralysed with fear when I finally had to accept the fact that my MS couldn’t really read or write or that, if he can, he’s not sharing that information with me.
Is anyone else in this position?
I really am not sure what to do about it.
He [...]

Have come back for one day before going off again - so want to thank Caroline Beardwood of www.sportfox.co.uk for sending me two sportif stylish swimsuits due to my previous witterings on about looking like a cross-Channel swimmer - rather than a cross Channel swimmer which would probably be nearer the truth - in my [...]

Am about to go away for half term and then a week on my own to a yoga retreat. It’s very self-indulgent I know but, really, I think I need the break. Women so rarely give themselves any time off at all and then, when we do, we spend our life justifying it.
When my husband [...]

I have a friend who is 43 and she has just found out she is pregnant. She has two children. The youngest is five years old. She thought she was out of the nappy stage by miles and claims not to feel broody ever.
Yet, here she is, with child (well, a tiny foetus at the [...]

The boy has come out of the bedroom in an almost unprecedented attack of feeling hungry.
‘I need food,’ he says, eyeing the fridge.
‘Yes,’ I say. ‘You cannot be under fed even if there is a siege going on.’
He helps himself to a bagel, a Nutrigrain, some crisps and a chocolate biscuit.
‘You need some protein in [...]

I don’t know quite what has happened to my eldest son - apart from the obvious mass-induced terror - but he has now locked himself in his room and is refusing to come out. It all started at the beginning of the week when he first heard of swine flu (he didn’t lock himself in [...]

The MMR rears its ugly head again. While I was away on holiday (you can read about this is my column Country Mother of Four that comes out every Sunday in Stella Magazine, part of the Sunday Telegraph) in Morocco, my father-in-law came down from Durham where he lives to look after our baby girl. [...]

We have just got back from Morocco which was, I have to say, AMAZING (and yes, I am shouting that bit). The food was great, the medina was fascinating, the children loved the monkeys and the snakes. We went a bit mad and ate every night at the outdoor cafes that set up in the [...]