London mum, aspiring writer and amateur illustrator. Hopes to navigate through motherhood without losing herself. 
I think I have never been as ecstatically excited and terribly terrified about one thing at the same time. “Project Book” is moving along rather nicely. Characters in place, plot divided into 30 chapters; set up, major disasters and ending defined. It should take me less than a day to finalise the outlining process and [...]
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About the book. Or: being high and low
Friday, Aug 20th, 2010 by Met Mum | 25 Comments
Filed under: Blogging, work | Tags: book, career, writing
Filed under: Blogging, work | Tags: book, career, writing
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
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 [...]
Liz Earle Naturally Active Skincare – Summer body pamper pack
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 by Met Mum | 3 Comments
Filed under: Beauty, Blogging | Tags: giveaway, Liz Earle
Filed under: Beauty, Blogging | Tags: giveaway, Liz Earle
We have a winner! It’s Tish @ A femme d’un certain age. Dear Tish, I hope you will have lots of fun scrubbing and buffing and creaming and pampering yourself. Prends soin de toi! And don’t forget to email me your mailing address.
Papa Frost
Sunday, May 9th, 2010 by Met Mum | 13 Comments
Filed under: Blogging | Tags: baby, motherhood, movies, mum
Filed under: Blogging | Tags: baby, motherhood, movies, mum
Let’s say you are in your mid to late 30s and Mr. Right is way out of sight. Let’s also say you had a very strong desire for a baby, but the idea of a partner to share this with seems far-fetched. Your biological clock is ticking mercilessly. What would be the Plan B? Is [...]
Vote!
Of course, I have been at the polling station today to vote in the local election. But it doesn’t stop just here. Thanks to you, Metropolitan Mum has been shortlisted as Best Looking MAD Blog 2010. Yay! Who cares that you rate my blog’s looks over my – ahem – accomplished writing? Go, show some [...]
Cookie love
Sometimes I find myself full of longing for a tiny bit of Lilly Pulitzer, college friend of Jacqueline Bouvier (better known as Jackie Kennedy), fashion designer and Queen of Preppiness. But this side of the pond there is just no getting your hands on a “Lilly” shift dress; as far as I know they are [...]
Occupation: Mum
Friday, Apr 23rd, 2010 by Met Mum | 23 Comments
Filed under: Blogging, Mummy stuff | Tags: motherhood, mum, rolemodels, work
Filed under: Blogging, Mummy stuff | Tags: motherhood, mum, rolemodels, work
Surname, first name, address. Post code, telephone, occupation. Occupation? The worst bit of my recent and otherwise lovely course at St Martins was filling in an A4 form. Or this one little box, to be precise. Occupation. Occupation. Occupation. No matter from which angle I looked at the black little line behind the trigger, the [...]
Award nomination for THE MADS 2010
I could easily play it cool and pretend not to care whatsoever, but I do. Some very nice folks have nominated this blog for THE MADS 2010 blog awards. And now that I am on the list, I would really like to win. Or at least be shortlisted. So please, if you like my blog, [...]
Girl crush
The fabulous Lily Lemontree invited me to guest-post on her beautiful blog about my favourite style icon. This is flattering for multiple reasons. Not only is Lily Lemontree one of the most stylish blogs out there, but also is her series ‘Style Icons’ one of my favourite. So whom did I choose? Let me tell [...]