Kate & Emily

We will be starting a once a month meet up group in Wandsworth on wednesday Feb 1  , which will be a chance to chat and think about some of the conundrums you may face. Low key and relaxed no pressure to show and tell ! just a chance to meet others and think about some single parenty thinks in a fun and useful way. 7.30 - 9 St Lukes community hall on Thurleigh road , either just tip up or contact us via the web site . I shall be writing up the session in the blog so that if you want to join in next time at the beginning of March you can get a good idea what we get up to

This wednesday we will be starting a meet up group. We know that getting people together is useful , energising and fun and we know 100 % that most single parents don't want to go !!! So the long and the short is that this is the toughest nut of the lot to crack . We know that there are literally millions of single parents and we know that every  one them could do with a bit of mutual support we also know that if we get into double figures turning up on Wednesday a miracle will have occured. This does not put us off !!

NEVER GO OUT WITH SOMEONE WHO'S DRUNK AT THE START. Hindsight's a wonderful thing and has taught me that as soon as you know your 'date' is pissed bale out, no need to be nice and stick around as they'll only fall asleep at the table - TRUE!!!! Luckily lots of sympathetic couples welcomed me to their tables for a chat while he slept, but still not my finest hour. I'm now off going out. Hopefully it'll pass....

I'm childfree this weekend - phew and hurrah! I'm planning on spending it lying in, flopping around, doing DIY jobs - anyone know how to mend a shower?? It feels like an expensive job to get done so I thought I might try and do something myself but all I can think of to do is to keep on turning it on and off in the hope that it'll change it's mind and work. BUT, in the evenings I'm out - I'm up West with an old friend (male, single, purely platonic!) and we'll go bar hopping and rub around with the great unwashed, have a sherbert or 3, and make a new friend or 2. I always save these 'paint the town red' nights for my childfree weekends so that I can start them early, get ready slowly, and then stay out as late as I want to and get home in any state that I want to!!

Happy New Year!!!!!!

Well, the year ended with a party and as I see it, it's the best way to continue. I don't mean spending every day slurrping champers and snogging strangers, I'm talking about the 'party in your mind'....

January is usually a time of contemplation, hope, regret and general feelings of failure (come on, how many of you actually stuck to the resolutions you made last year?), so I am not going to submit myself to a future of failure by making promises I don't intend on keeping. I know that the self help books make a killing in January too. Everyone is setting goals, targets and milestones and generally analizing every part of themselves. In my experience, this self help euforia is often short lived. I suppose it's like a hit to an addict. At first the high is unbelievable, and then you need more to feel the same, however with self help, the more you have, the worse you feel after a while. Lets call it 'self help overload'. After feeling indistructable for the first few weeks of January, ready to 'think positive', 'love thyself', and 'feel the fear but do it anyway', how many of us start to get a wee bit sick of all this positive energy? So I have come to the conclusion, that in order to keep my mind healthy, I am simply going to think of my head as a 'party zone', with rooms for dancing like crazy, smooching to love songs, chilling in the zone, spending time with loved ones, and meeting new and interesting people. So, if you're sick of self help and new year resolutions........ Come join the party!!