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04/08/2021As I write this, we're slowly coming out of another national lockdown here in the UK. West Yorkshire, where I live, has been under lockdown regulations for roughly 3 quarters of the past 365 days, [...]
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02/11/2020This post is sponsored sustainable Swedish childrenswear brand, Newbie, as part of their 10th birthday celebrations. I've been a very happy Newbie customer for years (Rory even has a tattoo of Orla [...]
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01/08/2020I've been thinking a lot lately about what it takes to take something from the idea stage to an actual reality. We like to think it's simple - make a plan, follow the steps, achieve the imagined [...]
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09/14/2017This post is in collaboration with and sponsored by Lenovo, but all thoughts are my own, unchanged and unedited. My previous life in the NHS For most of my time working in speech therapy, I didn't [...]
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06/02/2017The mind of a four year old is a wonderfully unpredictable thing. Whereas with adults I can pretty easily predict the direction a conversation will take, with Orla I frequently land in discussions [...]
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02/01/2017I was relaying some of the amazing stuff that's been happening for me to my friend Hannah recently, and she said to me "you're flying!" And it made me pause, because I feel like I'm doing [...]
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11/12/2016What a year! The events of the last week must surely form the icing on a 2016-cake built of bullshit, bitterness and death. I'm increasingly convinced that David Bowie may have been the glue [...]
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10/12/2016A dried thistle flower. She hands it to me, sniffling, drying her eyes from some head-bang or dog lick, and tells me in a small voice, ‘it is a hedgehog’. And it is! It has two eyes and a nose, [...]
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09/02/2016Can we talk about small things for a moment? About the impossibly sweet and nostalgic accoutrements of childhood. A little blue cardigan hanging from a big hallway hook. Miniature shoes [...]
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08/06/2016I was raised on a diet of homemade cake & gingerbeer. Not literally, you understand, but of the literary sort - hours spent gorging on books by Enid Blyton and Arthur Ransome. The Famous Five, [...]
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07/22/2016Europe, I love you. I love Venice in October when the sun is low over the cold lagoon. I love the fantasyof living over Shakespeare Co, earning my keep by selling dusty old books in [...]
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06/12/2016Nobody talks about how boring parenting can be. It's this weird Western system we've created, where we all raise our children alone; sealed into our little boxes on quiet, orderly streets. Perhaps [...]
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