“Nora Ephron, the famous screenwriter, once said – ‘When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh.’” Writer and editor Anniki Sommerville shares five excellent writing tips to help get you started…
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Work Life
Anniki Sommerville had spent nearly two decades working for a market research company but after maternity leave, found herself questioning whether there might be more to life. She quit, went freelance, continued as editor of Selfish Mother and wrote a book. Here’s her story…
Sleep
Baby naptime is potentially the only break a parent will have throughout the day. A day that may start at 5am and last until 7pm. It is precious ‘free time’ to catch up on housework, paid work or sleep. So it must be protected… but how? Annie Ridout offers a suggestion…
Mornings
With the pressures of being a work-from-home mum, Frankie Tortora – of Doing it for the Kids – needs to regularly remind herself to slow down, breathe… and then continue. Here, she shares her start-of-the-week thoughts…
Family
For the mothers (and fathers) who’ve found a sudden rise in productivity levels since kids came along, Annie Ridout has it all worked it. Here’s why you are a whole lot more productive now than you were pre-children…
Work Life
It’s enough of a challenge juggling one child and working freelance from home – but what happens when a second baby comes along? Annie Ridout finds herself struggling so turns to the Instagram community for their wise tips and advice on freelancing with kids…
Work Life
She left her online editor role at Tatler after maternity leave and joined Shoreditch-based tech startup Tantrum. We interviewed Lisa Williams about mornings, feeling empowered as a new mum and women in tech…
Work Life
Husband to Instagram favourite Mother Pukka (Anna Whitehouse), Matt Farquharson is now also snapping pics, blogging and vlogging about #parentingtheshitoutoflife. We talk fatherhood and freelancing…