It's the new year and it's the new me.If the new me is exactly the same as the old me but slightly podgier due to the excessive amounts of food I have eaten over the last few weeks.With no exercise.And wine. Much, much, wine.But it's okay - I have new year's...

Being a self-confessed bleeding heart lefty with socialist leanings (that works non-ironically in the field of brand and marketing), I have schooled my daughters to recognise advertising with more vigour than I have schooled them to eat their vegetables. This has...

I love Christmas. I love birthdays. I basically love everything that means we get to celebrate positive things so sometimes I even like to celebrate Wednesdays, the occasional Tuesday and at a push Monday mornings about 10am.I even love the wrapping of gifts, the...

Blood is thicker than water. That's what they say isn't it?You can always count on your family. They say that too.What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. That's a particular favourite isn't it?Am I allowed to cry bullshit on behalf of those that can't?I have friends...

There is no difference between 'online' and 'IRL' anymore.Who you are online is exactly who you are in real life. So if you threaten violence against women (or men) online, those are thoughts that exist in your head in real life. They are a reflection of your...

This year we have cheerfully bought into conspicuous consumption and have introduced 'Elf on a Shelf' into the family home.This is Mary.  Named by the girls without intervention. Personally I liked Rosie-Sparkle-Boo-Butt better but they decided Mary was the best...

So Charlie Sheen, man of a thousand memes, lover of 5000 women, yadda yadda yadda is HIV positive.And the judgement has begun. And as you know, the internet is full of judgemental little fuckers just baying for his tiger blood. The righteousness! The fury! The...

I've got a secret.And I'm ready to share it with people. I'm not a single parent.I KNOW!I'm married to a guy who I respect and who I love and who drives me completely insane at least once a week.We have two children. Gorgeous children. Mad. Totally bonkers the pair of...

Is there anything that is true about yourself that you're not entirely comfortable with?In fact, doesn't fit with your general view of yourself?Mine is the D word.Depression.Depressing isn't it?  In this last week, after a tough few months, they added PMDD to my...

You know that time that you did that thing and it played on your mind endlessly. It was the rock in your chest, the nauseated feeling in your throat, the words of recrimination spewing poison into your mind.And you finally came clean with somebody and they laughed.Or...

I got asked yesterday why 'somebody like me' wasn't commenting furiously about the European refugee crisis, Cameron's concession to public opinion, Iceland's brilliance and the heartbreaking pictures of Aylan Kurdi, who died along with his mother Rehan and his brother...

It's true. My beautiful first born turns five today.And in all that time she has never sworn. Despite the prolific profanity from her mother, the closest my baby girl has come to swearing is when she misheard her father and yelled 'Sausage' instead of...