Seven Books I Haven't Read Since Becoming A Mum
My name is Alison Perry and I haven't read a whole book since becoming a mum. This wouldn't be so bad if I was a mum to a three month old, or even a nine month old. But I am, in fact, a mum to a two-and-a-half-year-old. I haven't Read more
The Secret Reason I'm Obsessed With Pinterest
Back in April, I had a meeting with Lauren Michaels from Pinterest. She'd come over from Pinterest HQ in San Francisco with a team of others, to meet with UK bloggers. When she contacted me, asking to meet with her, my inner geek exploded. It was fascinating to Read more
30 Things My Toddler Refuses To Do
It's a DAILY BATTLE. No, not between good and evil, but between parent and toddler. Our toddler - and I imagine every single toddler who ever toddled - just loves to say "no". The things she says no to? They're not consistent. There doesn't seem to be any Read more
WIN A Personalised Mug For Fathers' Day
Is it just me, or has Fathers' Day crept up, out of nowhere this year? I'm usually so organised with some carefully planned gift, like a photo book or a personalised leather travel card wallet. This year (oh, it's on 16th June, in case you hadn't realised) I'm Read more
When you’re pregnant with your first child, it’s not uncommon for someone to say to you “Make sure you go on holiday before the baby arrives! It’ll be your last relaxing break for 18 years!”
This is true to a certain extent, but what I’ve learned in the two years and five months since becoming a …
I can’t imagine having to walk 5 miles every day to get clean water. 5 miles! All I have to do is walk to the kitchen. But 5 miles is what some women and girls in developing countries have to walk every day (the average is 3.7 miles) in order to survive. This often means …
I think it’s fair to say that most mums discover one or two kids’ clothing shops that they just love and go back to time and time again. Mine are split into budget buys (Sainsbury’s TU, Mothercare) and pricier (Boden, Polarn O. Pyret) depending on how healthy my bank balance is looking.
Looks like celebrity mummy …
Before I was a mum, a shopping trip would usually involve a potter around one shop, a meandre around another, a quick pit stop for a coffee somewhere and then a mass trying-on session in a shop changing room. Oh how those days have gone! Now, I very rarely go shopping and if I do, …
This Valentine’s Day, my husband and I are jetting to Paris for the day, where he’s planning to wine me and dine me in a top restaurant before a quick spree at Chanel.
Ha! Not really. What we’ll actually be doing is exchanging cards with an ‘Oh, Valentine’s Day again eh?’ eye roll. We’ve been married …
My house ‘to do’ list is as long as my arm. My excuse is that we moved into our current house, did a few things like wallpapering, buying of furniture and three months later, I discovered I was pregnant, so all house jobs (apart from creating a nursery of course) went on the back burner. …
At the start of every year, I always want to do two things: 1. Book a holiday/weekend away 2. Reorganise my home and buy new bits. At the moment, I’ve got my eye on a kids’ toy storage unit from IKEA and I really want to put up some shelves in the alcoves on either …
Bathtime can make or break an entire day, can’t it? In a matter of mere minutes, a perfect day that would go down in history (you know, sunny morning in the park, tantrum-free lunch out, painting and telly watching in the afternoon…) can all disappear as your child does one of the following:
a) Refuses to …
Comic Relief’s big fundraising event Red Nose Day is just around the corner and this week, bloggers Penny, Tanya and Annie have been doing an amazing thing – they’ve been over in Ghana with Comic Relief visiting some projects that benefit from the money raised by the charity. Oh and did I mention they were …
Have you ever seen a toddler throw an iPaddy?
Toddlers are amazing at lots of things – identifying colours (“red bus!”), counting to ten (mine can count to 15 and then it all goes wrong by way of 18 then 16 then 20), and reciting episodes of Peppa Pig (“Zuzu and Zaza crying!” – …
Hello, I’m Alison. My day job is working as a chief geek for a women’s magazine. I started Not Another Mummy Blog while I was on maternity leave in 2011 and it was quickly named as Netmums Blog of the Week. I also won the Best Mummy Blog Writer gong at the 2011 Gurgle Blog Awards…
