My top lessons from 5 years of blogging

    This blog, unbelievably, has been going for over 5 years. In all that time, whilst I have continually reflected on it and wondered how I can improve it, I’ve never shared what I’ve learned, or what I would have done differently if I were starting out again.

Your 1950s housewife will not thank you for her hash tag

BBC News today featured a short film about the #TradWives movement: ‘Submitting to my husband like it's 1959': Why I became a #TradWife.’

The film features an extraordinarily tedious woman named Alena Kate Pettitt, who crows dreamily on about her life as a housewife, looking back with nostalgic fondness to a traditional England that once was, and explaining how, having grown up with a single mother herself, she rebelled and wanted a man to take care of her and to live as a housewife.