Tag: parenting

The End of an Era

Yesterday, my husband and I took the day off work (only our second since lockdown began) in order to take my eldest daughter down to pack up, and move out of, her student house in London. We didn’t want to, of course. We knew it was going to be...

Twenties, and living for motherhood

I moved through my 20s ferociously and at a speed which is at once blurry-fast and treacle-slow in my memory. With my husband by my side I finished university, got my degree, got a better job. My husband was promoted.   We bought a little house we could barely afford...