(Reader's note : This is not actually an ode. I just liked the title.)This is the Winter of the Onesie. They are everywhere, unavoidable. Just like Uggs and Crocs, the [...]

Well, as the old year comes to a close and I wonder whether I may drown before the new one really gets going, my mind turns to resolutions as it [...]

I haven't written anything here for ages. I would love to say that that's because my life is so busy with other writing and to a degree that's true. There's [...]

Oooh! What a fuss the Asda Christmas advert seemed to be causing. If you haven't seen it, it suggests that mums do Christmas and for the rest of the family Christmas [...]

When my eldest was three and I took her to Maureen Williams School of Dance to enrol, I had no idea what I was getting us into. Now, thirteen years later, dance [...]

I'm tired of Father Christmas.Am I allowed to say that or am I committing some huge maternal faux pas? I have been embracing his funny little ways to the best [...]

So it's starting to get tricky now.  I'm just over two weeks in and so far I have managed to write the 1,667 words a day to keep on track [...]

I'm afraid that my life is being totally dominated by attempts to complete a novel in a month and so, somewhat self indulgently, I'm going to witter on about it [...]

"Are you doing NaNoWriMo this year?" someone wrote on Facebook."What?" I thought.I had no idea what NaNoWriMo was or whether it was something that I wanted to be doing. A little [...]