These are all the posts I’ve written relating to politics, parenting and my life in general.
Congratulations! Your kid is four – or maybe even five, if you were bored between Christmas 2016 and New Year 2017 – and it’s finally time for them to start primary school. It’s a HUGE thing, both for your child and for you, and so as a veteran parent I thought I’d hand out some of that wonderful unsolicited advice
Child starting reception? Here, have ten pieces of unsolicited advice Read More >>
And just like that*, the traditional last minute scrabble for new school shoes and search for missing PE kits has begun. The six week summer holiday is over and it’s time to get geared up for the school run again as my two, in their never ending quest to get older every single bastard year, enter years 3 and 4.
Ten things I’ve achieved over the summer holidays Read More >>
Once again it’s been a few weeks since I last wrote a blog post, but I’ve finally got an evening to myself and thought I’d try to get something, anything, out before my brain withers and dies through lack of use. I had designs on a post about Liz Truss Facts, but I’ll save that for a day when my
Botched house sales and heatwaves Read More >>
This is a collaborative post and may contain affiliate links: We thought that the worst part of summer was over, but not so! There’s a brand new heatwave on the horizon. As Brits we are decidedly not used to this and we are not prepared for it; some of our cars don’t even have aircon, let alone our houses, which
Tips to get you through a British heatwave without aircon Read More >>
It was about 10pm one evening in early July. This was back when it was warm, but before it got obnoxiously hot. I was sitting in my living room, half-watching a show on Netflix (It had Anna Kendrick in it and it was OK, but I didn’t like it enough to remember what it was called) and thinking about going
The tale of the fox and the slipper Read More >>
Where to even start?! Like a turd that just wouldn’t flush… It took the resignations of more than 50 Cabinet Members, Ministers and Parliamentary Private Secretaries, one desperate firing of a slimy pob-faced cokehead, and a lot of ultimatums from the few that were left (with the notable exception of Nadine Dorries, for which there is absolutely no explanation. Not
F*ckity bye Boris, you fecund clown in a shit suit Read More >>
Spending time pissing about on social media might seem like most millennials’ idea of an ideal job (yes, I am actually a millennial, technically) but building an audience on social media for your blog is actually serious business. When I started my first blog, many many years ago, there was no such thing as social media. Facebook didn’t exist, there
The trouble with social media: The Complaints Department Read More >>
The cost of living is continuing to rise, and it’s scary. It’s now prohibitively expensive to fill up the car with petrol – over two quid a fucking litre in some areas, Jesus wept – and even the cheapy supermarkets are putting their prices up a little each week. It isn’t just affecting the poorest in our society; people who
After a lovely long weekend (and, in fact, a full week away from my computer for the first time in years) it’s time to get back to the grind. Yesterday I managed to get rid of all the unread emails in my inbox, although, on another entirely unrelated topic, if you sent me an email and you’re currently awaiting a
The week that was: Platty Joobs, the unflushable turd and a trip to A&E Read More >>
This morning, I dropped my kids off at school. I kissed them goodbye (largely against their will), I hugged them tightly and then watched as they ran off happily into their classrooms, where I knew that the worst thing that would happen to them would be a grazed knee in the playground, a bump of the head playing chase, or,
Get rid of your guns, you f*cking lunatics Read More >>
