London mum, aspiring writer and amateur illustrator. Hopes to navigate through motherhood without losing herself. 
It all started rather harmless. When my friend Monique* handed me a tattered, pink paperback, I was a tad bit surprised by the cover. The photograph of a girl and a boy in a tight embrace, apparently joyful smooching away, made my cheeks burn with embarrassment. And desire. Desire to open the book and plunge [...]
Archive for July, 2010
My dirty little secret
Friday, Jul 30th, 2010 by Met Mum | 28 Comments
Filed under: Blogging | Tags: guilty pleasures, romance, writing
Filed under: Blogging | Tags: guilty pleasures, romance, writing
Stockholm
Monday, Jul 26th, 2010 by Met Mum | 27 Comments
Filed under: Travelling | Tags: big M, friendship, girlfriends, Stockholm
Filed under: Travelling | Tags: big M, friendship, girlfriends, Stockholm
Stockholm always has a soothing effect on me. Surrounded by clean water and crisp air, decorated with beautiful buildings and healthy looking people who smile at you with their big, straight white teeth, beach blond hair waving in the wind – Sweden is reliably fulfilling its clichés. Sweden gives me an instant holiday feeling. And [...]
Grandma
Friday, Jul 23rd, 2010 by Met Mum | 17 Comments
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: family, grandma, grandparents
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: family, grandma, grandparents
Every time I picked up the phone to call my grandma during the past months, I dreaded that she’d fall asleep on the phone again, that she’d again confuse names, that her speech again was slurred and that again, I would feel her health and her spirits deteriorating. I found excuses not to visit her [...]
It’s your birthday, it’s your birthday…
Go shawty, it’s your birthday We gonna party like it’s your birthday We gon’ sip Bacardi like it’s your birthday And you know we don’t give a f***, it’s not your birthday Well, darling Fiddy, it IS my birthday. It’s your birthday, it’s your birthday…
Complaining against an NHS midwife… result!
Friday, Jul 16th, 2010 by Met Mum | 29 Comments
Filed under: Mummy stuff, Pregnancy | Tags: complaint, midwife, NHS complaint procedure, UCLH
Filed under: Mummy stuff, Pregnancy | Tags: complaint, midwife, NHS complaint procedure, UCLH
About three months after I handed in my complaint, I received a letter from the UCLH Trust Headquarters, telling me that they had completed the investigation and informing me about their findings. Without further ado, here is what they said: Complaining against an NHS midwife… result!
My lovely (lady)garden
I am not sure I got the message right here. Please tell me it’s not just me. My lovely (lady)garden
The end of broodiness
Thursday, Jul 8th, 2010 by Met Mum | 42 Comments
Filed under: Mummy stuff | Tags: family, little L, motherhood, parenting, pregnancy
Filed under: Mummy stuff | Tags: family, little L, motherhood, parenting, pregnancy
Already as a child I was sure about wanting to become a mother one day. I always had a very distinct wish to become pregnant, give birth, care and love for the fruit of my loins. Even if that would have meant sleeping with my gay best friend or buying some Papa Frost sperm. Aged [...]
Occupation: Mum?!?
The unthinkable happened. I have been asked to write something. And I have been paid for it. My first piece of paid writing in almost ten years. And my first ever piece of paid writing in English. Of course I am proud. Proud enough to have spent the cheque three times, to be exact. An [...]
Four weeks in Saint-Tropez
And plenty of things have been going on… There’s been lots of driving. Four weeks in Saint-Tropez