Getting a GP appointment is a lot like buying concert tickets
Today I'm coming to you from my bed. I've caught Little B’s ‘non-specific’ virus, which ironically turns out to be quite specific. I woke up one morning this week with an itchy rash all over my body (the type of rash I have only ever [...]
5 healthy snacks for kids & Little Dish prize giveaway!
Ever since BB started school I feel like I’m laying on a constant buffet from 3pm until bedtime. She constantly complains that she’s hungry, and judging by the way she hoovers up everything I offer her I think she genuinely is. One of the reasons [...]
The REAL difference between being a mum & being a dad
Obviously there’s a difference between being a mum and being a dad. Like the small matter of growing a baby and magically producing it nine months later. But after going out for breakfast at the weekend (the child benefit had hit the joint account – [...]
#MySundayPhoto
This room at the Royal Alexander Children’s Hospital in Brighton really sums up our week. Little B has had a ‘non-specific’ virus which has seen us sent to children’s A&E twice for observation because he’s been so sleepy and unresponsive. Fever, sickness, cough, cold, conjunctivitis, [...]
When family fun goes wrong
I suppose it was only a matter of time. It’s been a year since we finally got our own allotment and the novelty has worn off already. Just 12 months in to what I hoped would be a family project spanning BB and Little B’s [...]
5 photos I will never post on social media
I was going through the camera roll on my phone the other day to delete pictures and make room for more when I discovered a number of photos BB has taken. They’re photos that I wouldn’t dream of posting on Instagram or Facebook, photos that haven’t been [...]
Top tips for exercise after pregnancy
I recently wrote a post on 5 ways running will change your life and how running quite literally keeps me sane. I received lots of positive comments from mums and dads who also use exercise as a means of escape from the demands of parenthood, so when [...]
#MySundayPhoto
I know you're all probably sick to death of hearing about my appearance on ITV's This Morning this week but I chose this picture for #MySundayPhoto having woken up and heard about the death of Sir Terry Wogan. This photo was taken in hair and [...]
What they don’t tell you about live TV
The big news in the Crummy Mummy household this week is that I was asked to appear on ITV’s This Morning to talk about whether it’s ok to wear pyjamas on the school run (in my opinion it totally is!) I was excited on two [...]
Our 3rd blog birthday competition winners!
Thank you so much to everyone who entered the competition to win £150 worth of prizes to celebrate our 3rd blog birthday. I was overwhelmed by the response and all your lovely messages, and it was also great meeting new readers who will hopefully come back and join [...]
Would you wear pyjamas on the school run?
Would you wear pyjamas on the school run? I appeared on ITV's This Morning debating the issue after a head teacher wrote to parents asking them to stop wearing their pjs and slippers to the school gates because she’s fed up with mums and dads shuffling up in [...]
Things I keep in my knicker drawer
If you want to put something somewhere safe, where do you put it? BB keeps everything she holds of value, like her blue Frozen Elsa gloves (not to be touched by anyone, under any circumstances) in her knicker drawer. I’m not quite sure how or [...]
#MySundayPhoto
Regulars followers will know I love running, and my usual route is along the seafront in Brighton. I always run in the morning when Misery Guts and the kids are still in bed, and more often than not I see sea swimmers going for their morning dip by the [...]
10 signs you’re turning into your mother
It’s happened. Last week, when BB asked a question and my mum and I answered at the same time with the same words in the same tone, I realised there’s absolutely no getting away from it: I’m slowly but surely turning into my mother. Not [...]
Our 3rd blog birthday: WIN £150 worth of prizes!
Exactly three years ago today I wrote my first ever blog post. I was rather pleased with myself because I managed to steal adapt the opening line of my first ever post from the first line of my favourite novel, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. It seems such a [...]
