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I’ve run in the snow, the sun, the sleet an the sludge (Picture: Getty Images) It’s not often I say this, but I am unbelievably proud of myself. Absolutely over the moon, if I’m honest. For the first time in my life, I have completed a New Year’s resolution and I am so blooming chuffed! …
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Every night, we’d giggle away as we arranged him into different situations (Picture: Alamy Stock Photo) ‘Look at what your elves have brought you!’ I gasped to my two children, Theo, five, and Immy, three. They’d just got out of the bath on Christmas Eve last year and, as is our tradition, there was a new pair…
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Friends and family thought we were bonkers (Picture: Lorreta Besong) Reaching the top of Ben Nevis and catching sight of the spectacular views over the highlands took my breath away and, for a moment, I felt quite choked up. It was the last of the Three Peaks that my husband Alfred and I had climbed…
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My son is nearly 15 months old and still at home with me (Picture: Catherine Hufton) It feels like yesterday that I dropped my eldest son off for his first day at nursery in 2019, tears streaming down his face as I handed him over to a relative stranger. I needed a couple of dedicated…
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We created something truly unique (Picture: Getty Images) As my fellow founder and I opened the doors of our new co-working nursery, I felt like my dreams were coming true. Watching our first customers arrive, pushing prams laden with laptops, nappy bags and little children, I had no idea at that moment that we would…
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I’m always fascinated when the ‘most popular names’ lists are revealed each year (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto) As Shakespeare’s Juliet once famously pondered, ‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’ And while that may be true, it certainly doesn’t feel like it when you’re a…
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Pink proved you can have it all as she rocked the American Music Awards red carpet alongside husband Carey Hart and their children. Donning a yellow and black fringed mini dress, the artist flashed her smile and…
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Brooklyn, you won’t regret taking your time to expand your family (Picture: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) At the ripe old age of 23, Brooklyn Beckham has declared that he would have children ‘yesterday’. He and his now-wife, Nicola Peltz, got married in April this year, after getting together in October 2019 and he is already planning the next…
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Would you be happy to swap? (Picture: TikTok @annalyncook) When it comes to plane seats do you swap or not swap? The debate has fiercely divided the internet, but one mum thinks she had cracked the code. Typically the plane seat debate centres around mothers or families with young children who ask people to swap…
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High-conflict splits can negatively impact your children’s wellbeing (Picture: Getty Images) Separating with a partner is never easy – especially when there are children in the mix. All the animosity needs to be pushed aside for the sake of the children’s wellbeing. A bitter divorce – and the impact it has on a family –…
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