This is the home of my weekly ramblings - the honest, funny, and sometimes chaotic blogs about parenting, autism, ADHD, midlife wobbles, and emotional burnout.
Yes, if life feels messy, you’ll feel right at home here.

I’m officially 24 days (as of publishing this post) away from some family quality time. And by that, I mean my mother-in-law is coming to stay. Yes. That  mother-in-law. The one who inspired last year’s Dragon-in-Law Landing Game, where some of my lovely (and slightly unhinged) followers sent me random words to slip into conversation with her. You know, for emotional support. Words like Broomstick , raunchy , and bananas . And somehow, I managed to get a good few of them in

Living with autism is a bit like living with a housemate you didn’t exactly sign a lease with, but who turned up anyway and refuses to...

I saw an article a few weeks ago, I can’t remember where, but it was jumping on the unschooling bandwagon. Inciting more hate towards...

Mr Jones is currently working away in a very heated country , and by heated, I mean in both temperature and temperament. It’s his third...

Why is ' No' the hardest word in the English language to say out loud? (Well, apart from 'moist' maybe.) We twist ourselves into...

I used to think loneliness meant sitting in an empty room. A quiet kitchen. An untouched phone. Maybe some tragic backlighting and a mug that says #blessed  even though you’re crying into a gluten-free crumpet. But no. Real adult loneliness? It’s less obvious than that. It’s sitting in a room full  of people who don’t get it. It’s speaking, properly speaking, and being met with a shrug. A platitude. A well-meaning but completely useless “It’ll all work out.” which, to be hon

Last week, something unexpected happened. Not the kind of unexpected that involves my teenager planting 5 mugs, 2 glasses and a teaspoon...

They say a family trip is an opportunity to recharge. Only, I'm pretty sure those idealistic people don't have kids. Or at least not...

They say it’s not about the destination - it’s about the journey. Only those people have clearly never driven from Scotland to Cornwall...