Well, it was never going to go to plan, was it?  OK, so my actual plan wasn't to run a marathon at all. Like basically everyone that sits down and watches the London Marathon on TV, I found myself getting increasingly emotional at seeing exhausted but amazing people cross the finish line knowing they'd raised thousands of pounds for good causes. So I sat and had a big glass of wine (which I...

I decided a few days ago that I'd make a scrapbook for my son on our time during the COVID-19 lockdown, but when I went to buy one from eBay, I found 3380462 people already producing them... decorated with fancy fonts and rainbow stickers, of course. I bought one anyway, and still intend to make a record of it to show him in the future; after all, we're in a pretty unusual time period. But it's...

Well, it had to happen at some point, and some of you who follow me on Instagram will be glad to have seen it: I crashed. I went from smug 'yeahhh I can do everrrrythang!' mum to 'ugh, fuck this' in less than a fortnight. And, yeah. This shit is hard. So instead of calling this blog 'the shit keeping me (almost) sane' like last week's, let's go with the 'shit that beat me down'...

Well, we didn't see this coming a few months ago, did we? A huge chunk of the globe is currently in lockdown, quarantine and self-isolation, and in the UK, schools and nurseries are closed - so unless you're a key worker (in the case of my son's nursery, working for the NHS or as a carer), there is currently no available childcare. This won't have an impact on lots of parents, some on others,...