Well the tree is up, wrapping paper has been purchased and a steady stream of gift-order-confirmation emails are making their way into my inbox.

By the time this column comes out, both of my children will be in school. This fact alone is not particularly remarkable, but bear with me.

By the time this column comes out, we'll have just over a week of school left. I am both counting down to the holidays, and a tad apprehensive

I've got something a little different this week as we say goodbye to our favourite newspaper editor, Phil Creighton. What I have, is a big thank you

Maia and I recently took the train up to Lancaster for a post-birthday adventure, to visit my cousins.

We took the children to the beach yesterday for what has become our annual May Beach Day.

I did that thing again where I leave my family and fly off to a random city alone

We've had several adventures over the Easter holidays, the first being a trip to London with my cousins to see Matilda the musical.

Sally McIlhone, writer and founder of Every Other Mother (child-friendly events aimed at entertaining and inspiring mums) was a co-host down

A few weeks ago Maia and I took the train to Bristol to spend the weekend with my cousins.