I feel like people who have sleeping babies / children who sleep through the night are having a totally different parenthood experience to me. It’s relentless.

Back on my (boiled eggs and harissa butter) bullshit

High street shop with red postbox outside. Blue skies. Empty road. Sign reads The Old Post Office coworking space.

Bluest of skies over my coworking space this morning. I had 45 mins baby free after the school drop off so popped in. Home now and already nap trapped!

If you’re local and know anyone who needs a break from working at home (or is that you?) you might like to consider coworking in Stirchley 😎

REGISTER TO VOTE DEADLINE IS TODAY. You NEED to vote in the May local elections and TODAY is the deadline to register. It only takes 5 minutes. Do it here:
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No please do take me to the Vet for a break 😆

Drama in the street WhatsApp group. Someone’s taken a ‘dishevelled and lost looking cat’ to the vet to see if it has a chip. It very much has an owner, wasn’t lost, and is dishevelled because it’s 18! 😆

Child in oversized clothes helps decorate a cake with raspberries - flowers and party food on a pink table, with bunting on the wall.

My biggest bab helped 🌷

Not the first time I’ve hosted a party and someone’s said they’re lactose / gluten intolerant, so I’ve spent extra on a whole different cake, sandwiches and snacks etc (£20?) and they ate the other stuff anyway 😂

Because I like neat numbers and small targets precisely 4 more pre-orders would make me very happy. (It would mean I've beaten the pre-order total for the last collection, 'Intervals of Darkness'.)

Buckets of flowers at a wholesale flower shop

It has been a while since I’ve played florist (I used to freelance for my pal’s shop) and today I’m buying flowers for a special baby shower party tomorrow!

Shop window front with house plants. In the middle an aloe vera has a tall yellow flower

Never seen an Aloe Vera plant in bloom before (at a curry house in Cotteridge)

A pilea plant with one leaf.

Person holds up a droopy cactus

I’ve been given these two sad plants and I’m going to try bring them back from the brink. Stay tuned for updates. A summer project!

Box arrived today while I was there 🎉

okay, well we serve small plates here. I'd recommend three or four small plates per person, or maybe five if you're feeling a little naughty! Great! Now if you'll just follow me to your teeny tiny wobbly table

Person holds up poster that reads: We will vote for Safer streets for our children We back Better Streets for Birmingham's ten practical steps to address our city's road safety emergency: betterstreetsforbirmingham.org/2026 Get a poster for your window: betterstreetsforbirmingham.org/poster (E1.55 postage)

We will vote for safer streets for our children! @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

Throughout the day I make a mental note of all the things I need to do after I put the kids to bed, then it gets to that time and I’m incapable of it through sheer exhaustion. (THE DAYS ARE LONG BUT THE YEARS ARE SHORT)

It is absolutely incredible that HMRC thought (and still thinks) that it is acceptable to tell every sole trader in the country that they have to file digitally, but that HMRC isn't providing any means to do, that you probably need to get some software from somewhere, and that it sucks to be you.

Two baby wake ups and one 5yo wake up since 7pm. I know the days are long and the years are short etc, but COME ON 😆

It’s worth it for the novelty and 3 minute thrill haha! Though nothing beats the 11 from the corner of your road obviously 😅

Train board displaying one train

It wasn’t on the display board when we got there 🤷‍♀️

Train showed up! Even though we were told it wasn’t running 😅 Ghost train!

No 9:54 train on the first Sunday service on the Pineapple Ring! Thankfully made snacks so my 5yo isn’t too devastated.

I asked if his grandparents had said that to him this week and he said no, that his 5yo friend had said it when we went to theirs last week. Pahah. Imagine!

‘It’s a pleasure having you in our house.’

- My 5yo to the cat.

Is today the day we can get to 2000 signatures?

We want a public inquiry into section 28 to understand the impact it had on LGBTQ people

Please share widely and in your networks. The algorithm is strong to not help good things to happen

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

That’s me, in emoji form!

Wide brimmed, practical, washable!

I’ve ordered an allotment hat. It’s only taken me 13 years. I think this means we are committed.

Yep only the one! Whoops I wonder where that’s got to then!

I bought one a week or so ago - do you happen to know if it’s been posted? 🙏