A Mile in My Shoes

When my son was first born, he would easily get through about 10-12 disposable nappies in any 24 hour period. I used to have palpitations...

A shocking stat I recently learnt is that 1/5 of all ocean plastic comes from menstrual hygiene products. On average, a woman will use 11...

When we were expecting Rudy, I had the very romantic notion that we would only let him play with wooden toys. I didn’t like plastic toys ...

PLASTIC FREE JULY // KEEP-CUPS You don’t need me to explain how a keep-cup works. But you might not know that single use cups from many t...

Has it really been one hundred days? One hundred days of being inside. One hundred days of hand washing, of daily briefings, of wearing m...

Yesterday was a year ago since my son’s due date and all those feelings of waiting and wondering and the nervous roller-coaster belly flu...

On Friday night, I cut my finger whilst making a salad. And not a fancy salad either; a token side salad to go with a pizza. The cut was ...

We can talk to our children about white privilege. Not to make them ashamed of who they are or to make them apologise for being white But...

Something occurred to me recently, whilst I was out for my daily walk, slaloming through the silent streets of Walthamstow. I looked arou...

Happy International Day of the Midwife! When our son was born, the stars were so aligned that after a hot curry on Drummond Street and se...

Kate is from Manchester, but she now lives in Toronto with her boyfriend, their roommate, a cat called Ted and a dog called Franklin. She...

We might all be facing a storm right now, but we must stop pretending we’re all in the same boat. Some people are faring this storm in a ...

Amongst all the chaos and all the fear, we must stop and acknowledge the beautiful things too. This will all feel harder if we don’t. The...

On every street in every city, the people clapped and cheered and banged their pots and pans and came together for the first time. They h...

History Teacher, Siobhan, shares her experience of how living with a chronic health condition helped her to prepare for life in lockdown....

The youth of today don’t get much credit, do they? People are quick to write them all off as being self-obsessed snowflakes who can name ...