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Can a Tinder-like app for mums really help find new friends? Mush says yes. It's the new app founded by Katie Massie-Taylor and Sarah Hesz that will help you connect with local mums with kids the same age as yours. If you're used to doing everything else with your smartphone (like working out how to solve night-terrors, looking up weaning recipes and free-shopping on Pinterest) then why not use it to connect...
Here's a story about one of the most beautiful families I know. They live on the stunning Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, where I'm from. Georgie and Pete have two beautiful girls, Anna 2 and Lucy 1. It's a lot to be envious of. But it's one of those stories that makes you check yourself, and leave judgments aside, because as with us all, you just don't know what other people...
When you mention Grace Woodward to fashion people, the response I often hear is "OOH, I love her." Grace is the kind of strong, stylish mum whose name is synonymous with guts, style, grit and honest determination - all traits I could do well to draw from at least once or twice a week. Grace is renowned for being a stylist by trade, but she is also a survivor and...
Fellow magazine hoarders will remember beautiful, collectible Amelia's Magazine well. One of her early notebooks is still on my desk, so it is a delight to finally have a reason to interview Amelia Gregory, now a mum of two little peaches. Amelia has moved on from publishing her illustration-rich print magazine to her website, books and a new book; Amelia's Colourful Colouring Companion: Adult Coloring Book. She's funding this latest...
Helen Edwards has that magic number, 15. That number crops up so often when I talk to creative mums. It seems that 15 years of gathering expertise, working for other people is about the right time for lots of people to then have families and launch their own thing. Helen put 15 years into artist management and print art production, and five years ago she launched her own thing. Helen's...
Fount London is the kind of nursery you wish was around every corner. Sweet, considered and engaging for kids, it has only just opened for business in Westgate Road in Hackney - right opposite the Netil market. Nestled under railway arches, alongside a pop-up shop space and the delicious Italian deli and bar Il Cudega, it's a welcome addition to an area with a shortage of nursery spaces, and certainly...
Sometimes your inspiration as a mum is close to home. Or close at least to your original home, which might be on the other side of the world as it is in my case. Nicole Kovacic is my bessie from primary school, and she has gone on to not just being the baddest scrunchie wearer of the late 1980s, but the bad ass mum of two boys with autism and...
What I love about blogging is finding out about careers and hobbies I would never have considered for myself. Lucy Branch has one of these careers. 39 year old Lucy is a director of her family’s firm Antiques Bronze Ltd, one of the UK’s leading conservation and restoration companies. She works on landmarks like Nelson’s Column, Cleopatra's Needle, Eros, St Paul's Cathedral, The British Library and Selfridges. Her family firm...
You might have noticed the colourful new paint job on this Shoreditch landmark (above), or heard of the monumentally moving photo series One Day Young. Jenny Lewis, photographer and person who makes things happen behind them both. The One Day Young project captures mums and babies on their first day of life together, and came to my attention when I was pregnant with my baby, and before the Mumspo blog...
In the pre-George era (PGE) I was never really one for spa breaks. To me they sounded like a naff affectation found in chic lit and the realms of small, suburban dreams. I couldn't imagine anything worse than having to chatter to someone while sat in a soggy robe drifting from one underwhelming "treatment" to another where teenage facilists tell me that I should ditch my established skincare regime. And then,...