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I feel like I need to start with a disclaimer: I am not vegan. I am however a lifelong vegetarian and the mother of six children, all of whom started life omnivorous and all of whom have chosen at one point or another to be vegetarian. One made the decision after coming face to face with a hogroast, one after ...

Here’s an idea to run up the Brexit flagpole… The EU have said there is no further negotiation to be had regarding how the UK might leave. Talks are over, no further concessions are to be made. Plan A – that is to retain trade, abolish EU legislation and shut out migrants – is shut down. Plan B is Theresa ...

***This post was quoted in The Independent and Report UK… here’s Kate’s outraged post over the loss of her free Waitrose skim lattes…. (was meant to be a bit of a joke…) ‪#‎Waitrose‬ ‪#‎freecoffee‬ — Oh Waitrose. I have loved you since I first moved to the UK, your wide, uncrowded shopping isles packed with lots of organic and Fairtrade ...

I gave up Diet Coke, wine and smoking for my unborn children. I gave up control of my body to mother nature as she masterfully constructed whole humans inside me. I gave up fear as they came urgently pushing out, tiny curled bundles which completely salved the pain. I gave up sleep, preferring to hear hungry calls, little toothless mouths ...

It was a good thing that The Sun removed topless women from its page 3. Boobs aren’t news and they don’t belong in a so-called “family newspaper” for ogling purposes. The idea is as ridiculously out-of-date as pinching a good looking stranger on the bottom while winking and saying, “hey foxy lady”. No. You just don’t do it. It’s lecherous ...

Radio 4’s series, The Value of Failure, has really got me thinking. Apparently, failure is a good thing. Who knew?? Personally, I’ve experienced plenty of failure: failed friendships, failed pregnancies, failed romances, failed jobs… and my kitchen failures are verging on paranormal! (Which is why I post recipes here – I get so excited if something works out well that ...

This post was the Mumsnet Blog of the Day on May 14th, 2014… thanks for the support Mumsnet, we consider it an honour! — Oh Gary, how could you? You were my favourite boy from a boyband… who turned into my favourite man from a manband… and then went on to be a lovely husband and dad who showed himself ...