So there's another book about adoption doing the rounds.  I haven't read it yet, but I probably will, armed with a stack of those l...

So we are still here. It feels pretty complicated. On the one hand, I need to - and I want to - maintain all the family relationships we h...

You're small enough for a piggyback... from an eight-year-old cousin.  Playing with fountains is genuinely thrilling ...

This is the only part of jetlag I like:It's 5am and I'm sitting by myself, drinking a coffee and waiting for the sun to rise. We...

You guys? I've finished my book! It still needs copyediting, layout, checking, footnoting, ISBN-ing, and all that extra stuff, but aft...

He wishes he had been born from my tummy - it's as simple as that. I think he would get under my skin if he could. He tries to crawl u...

They just keep letting the pigeon drive the bus.   This is probably their favourite book at the moment. Actually, okay, it's mine,...

What kind of person does it make me if I would rather shut myself away and write a book than raise another child? Because sometimes I woul...

Here is a video of me trying to teach the twins my favourite song:  ( yes, I make them sing. They'll be glad one day. Also - list...

Earlier this week I was in Paris (which was fun) and then later in the week I caught some kind of cut-price bubonic plague (which was not fu...