Sometimes life punches you in the face. You get dumped… you don’t get the job… someone lets you down badly… there is a horrible loss or gut-wrenching disappointment. These are the times most of us… Read More »How to recover from rough times
For Father’s Day, I want to write some nice things about my Dad. The best place to start is sport because Dad is a massive, massive sports fan. A fan of all sports, especially if… Read More »Here’s to my Dad
I am often writing about families in my books – children, parents, sisters, grampas, aunties… the whole family scene. And because it’s all fictional and written for entertainment, these imaginary people are so much wittier,… Read More »When families are… complicated!
I was visiting relatives in Germany this summer and spent one wonderful hot and sunny day wandering round Frankfurt, a city I’ve been visiting since I was young. I’d been so starved of travel that… Read More »Ich bin ein Frankfurter
This is for everyone who is feeling a bit the same, a bit stuck… a bit bleughhhh… And after the time we’ve had lately, that’s probably quite a lot of us. We’ve not been allowed… Read More »The Getting Out of a Rut Blog
I was desperate to have children because I wanted to have babies… you know, those adorable, tiny, scrunched up, helpless little preciouses. I never thought for one moment about gangly big teenagers stomping and flouncing… Read More »The All About *Those* Conversations Blog
To support the Mumsnet campaign for better Miscarriage Care, here’s my story: I had a beautiful toddler son and all I wanted was a brother or sister, a longed for second baby, to complete our… Read More »The long wait for a second baby, for Mumsnet