You may know that as well as Yellow Days I’ve also got a little blog called Political Mummy which I’m essentially using to keep all my ranty political posts together. I don’t spend much time on it especially since going back to work. I’m seeing it more as a project to the future. But then […]
Family Life
Work Experience or Slavery?
One of the hot debates of the week has been the government’s planned introduction of compulsory, unpaid work experience for job seekers. Is this a genuine attempt to help people find work or are the big companies involved just taking advantage of the free labour? I have to say I’m sceptical about the system although I […]
Footballers as role models: Asking for trouble
I’ve been a bit surprised by the flaring up of the ‘Racism in Football’ issue this week. Not that it wasn’t horrible, it’s just that it doesn’t come as a surprise to me. Time after time these over grown, over paid schoolboys behave atrociously and there’s a little outcry, a slap on the wrist and then everything […]
Speak Up and Speak Out
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. Usually I would have known it was coming up but this year I’m ashamed to say I had to see it trending of Twitter before I remembered. The pressures of working and looking after a young family especially in this period of economic uncertainty tends to distract us from […]
What changed in 2011?
Now Christmas is over it seems like I should stop and take stock of the year before it’s gone. 2011 has whooshed by in a flash (is that just me getting old?) but, when I think about it, life this New Year’s Eve is very different to the last. Last New Year’s Eve I watched […]
Where next?
Today’s guest poster is Corinne who blogs at A Journey Through Motherhood. You can also follow her on Twitter. She is a stay at home mum of three boys with a passion for environmental issues and today she is telling us about the job she used to have and what she would like to be doing next. I was […]