So I could couch this in all sorts of domestic and parenting terms. I could tell you a story about the challenging day I had last Thursday; dashing home at 3 o'clock to make a curry, make school lunches, and supervise baking for the school cake-sale. I could tell you about the kids insisting on making ...
Category: blogs & social media
The time blogging changed my life
17 from 17
It's that looking-ahead-while-looking-back time of year, and since I'm still in pyjamas and eating the last of the Butlers chocolates, I'm staying firmly in looking-back mode. And I'm taking the lead from Sadhbh of Where Wishes Come From again this year and joining her annual linky to round up my favourite 17 blog-related things from 2017: 1. My favourite post The post I most ...
15 from 15
It's that irresistible round-up time of year, and I'm jumping on the bandwagon - taking the lead from Sadhbh of Where Wishes Come From, and joining her linky to round-up my favourite 15 blog-related things from 2015. Well, mostly blog-related - there's a bit of slippage into real-life too. 1. My favourite post The one that meant most to me ...
Motherhood, Friendship, the Internet and Me – a Guest Post from Kate Gunn
I'm delighted to introduce a first ever guest post on Office Mum this week; Kate Gunn is a mother, blogger and freelancer. She spent her 20's travelling, her 30's getting married and having babies, and is now hitting her 40's newly single and back living in her old home town in Co. Wicklow. You can find her ...
14 from 14
Why writing is like dating
Today, just today, if I wanted to write about a topic that really interests me, the truth is, that would be on writing. Not parenting, not women in the workplace, just writing. I'm not sure it's all that interesting for anyone else, but if you'll indulge me for just one day, that's what I'd like to do. Writing is like ...
Smarter
Standing in the queue for a sandwich at lunch-time, I notice that everyone is looking at their phones. I don't mean that I just noticed this today - it's the same every day. I stand in the queue, looking at people looking at their phones, wondering idly what they used to do before they had smart-phones. Then I wonder ...
Pesky Ponies and Image Blog Awards Short-list
Friday morning was not going well. Our final day off both work and school so it was supposed to be perfect, but kids don't really get the whole "let's do everything possible to make this a good day" thing. By 8am, the six-year-old was downstairs crying because nobody was helping her to get her breakfast (what ...
Net the Leveller
Once upon a time, there were people who became artists and writers and entrepreneurs, and then there was everyone else who watched from the sidelines. People who worked in banks and hospitals and estate agents and supermarkets. People who made career decisions at sixteen or seventeen; who put aside creative aspirations or entrepreneurial tendencies in ...