I work four days a week at my salaried job and a whole lot more than that in my job as parent to three children. My two youngest are three year old twins, George and Alice, their older brother Thomas is six. The first six months of the twins’ life were a blur of either … Continue reading
“If only every day could be two days, then there’d be time.”
When someone dies, it’s impossible not to see the whole world through their lens. Every moment they should share. Every sight they should see. What they would say and do. Ian White was one of my best friends. We met when we were eleven years old. He grew up in Dagenham, lived in London for most of … Continue reading
Not blogging, but instagramming
I know, I know. I herald my return to blogging then disappear for another year. It’s embarrassing. In the past twelve months I have written three blog posts that remained in my drafts. The first too dull, the second too personal (birth related – I’ve learnt the hard way after sending a photo of my … Continue reading
Give Lice a Chance
I’ve been delighted and relieved to note the recent resurgence in feminist thought and discussion (much of it online) and such campaigns as No More Page 3 gaining traction and so wanted to ensure that I added my own thoughts on a different subject with a blog post I wrote yonks ago but never posted. … Continue reading
Back in the blogging saddle again
I’m back. So here’s a quick update. Late last year I left Channel 4. Most colleagues knew this in November. Others may have found out by my sneaky Instagram pic of me leaving the building. Or possibly more recently with my surreptitious addition of leaving dates to my LinkedIn profile (better than breaking up on … Continue reading
From Virtual Information Hoover to Revelling Reader (and back again)
A personal counter-cultural trend has accelerated this week catalysed by a week of working from home. Whilst I sucked up and spat out a barrage of information snippets, data points and piano-playing cats via email, friendfeed, text and tweet, I also found myself on a complementary novel-reading jag in my non-working hours. At the end … Continue reading
Reminder: Britain’s Forgotten Children
Apologies for another work promo from me, but Channel 4’s season on adoption and the care system this week, “Britain’s Forgotten Children” is without doubt one to watch and interact with. The season explores the issue of the “hard to place” children that can get stuck in the care system or shuttled between different foster … Continue reading
Sexperience: educating the parts that broadcast can’t always reach
Last night saw the first of four more Sex Education programmes on Channel 4, this time addressing the specific issue that the ready availability of pornography online has skewed people’s understanding and expectations of sex and all the bits involved (see embedded video below for one of the main bits involved). The website (commissioned by … Continue reading
Men: How to Avoid “Ram Dressed as Lamb” Syndrome
Despite the overwhelming response (thanks Jo) in favour of my menstrual whinge on the unfairness of fashion restrictions imposed on women of a certain age (=mine [36] and over) I’ve decided to take a different tack. Instead I’m evening the score by providing a few helpful hints to the ageing fellas so they too can … Continue reading
Cure Sought for Chronic Dartitis
As you may have gathered, I’ve picked up a nasty case of blogger’s dartitis. Yes, I’ve been writing, but with spasms of focus, like the automatic scrawl of a medium channelling a peripatetic Cleopatra who keeps drifting off to chat to Einstein and John the Baptist just when things are getting interesting. As a result, … Continue reading
Busy and Lively 