Business mums

I was feeling rather lonely last week. My coach suggested finding a networking site for other mums in the same position. She suggested the website above to me. Seems good so far.

Friday cheer and hello mum and dad

Is Friday ! Yeah! 5 days of the week finished with, the kids are in bed and roll on the weekend. This Friday has been different however my parents have popped over from Chicago for a week. We have a fun packed week ahead, the plans are : Saturday afternoon we are going to The First Emperor at the British Museum , Sunday I'm planning on using our EastEnd markets walk and show my parents the best of London markets . On Wednesday we are planning on going to the Royal Academy to see From Russia . That doesn't include taking Maya and Ben to the dentist on Thursday and ofcourse work, exhausting but just so nice to see mum and dad.

London talk show

On my many nursery runs I've started to listen to Robert Elms show on BBC London Radio. He's really interesting, you can find out some mad things about London. For example, I found out where the smallest ever police box was. Do you know where? Someone phoned in and told us avid listeners that on the south east corner of Trafalgar Square there used to be a police box which is now used for storage equipment. I find these little facts interesting - the fact that I have walked past there so many times and not known that it was used as a police box!
The other day people were phoning in to tell people about hidden tunnels under London. A cabbie (London Cab driver) called in to tell us listeners that there is apparently a secret tunnel running from Buckingham Palace to Windsor!! We'll never know if that's true but its interesting nevertheless ..

moving

I write this as I am surrounded by big brown boxes. Removal men are traipsing up and down my flat and all my worldly possessions are being carried into a huge van.

We've been here 7 years, had our formative marriage years here and had two little babies here - strange to think it now moves on, to someone else.

We're moving to a lovely house just around the corner. A little house for me, my family and my worldly possessions, if they get there after being in a van all night long ....

childcare

last week I dropped my son off with my new child minder Sharon. It was wierd I didn't feel as bad as I had when dropping off Maya for the first time and she was almost a year old. He's only 4 months! I'm so happy and relieved to be back at work , am I strange? am I a bad mum?

A new baby and Green Street

I'm restarting to write this. I have been very busy recently as little Ben was born in August. He's great , cute and giggly and just gorgeous. I've been really enjoying having a new born the second time around.
I started work again last week and discovered the most amazing place in London. We're creating an audio walk for Newham council and we walked around this very interesting, diverse area last week. One area we walked was Green Street, "The Bond Street" of East London. I'd never been here before but its well worth a visit. Its full of Asian superstores, fashion and shoe shops as well as a plethora of speicalist restaurants catering for the local community. There's also some fantastic architecture and at the end of the walk we took you get to look around West Ham's football Ground "Boleyn Stadium" which is very impressive itself. Its called the Boleyn grounds because there used to be a supposed castle here which was either owned by Anne Boleyn's family or she stayed there. We also went to a fascinating book shop next to the West Ham grounds which was full of books on the East End of London, football and also had a great childrens section.

In memory ...

My friend Sharon died last week of a horrid illness. She left behind her husband Fergal and cute son Rory. I wanted to remember her here. She was full of life , bubbly and happy. So tragic to have her life taken away so young and for her to miss out on so much left from life.