Dispatches from the frontline of family life.

Writing about life with small children, and life beyond small children.

Cast List

Penny Alexander - I worked as a secondary teacher in South London for seven years, leading a successful Film and Media department and teaching Drama.  It was very rewarding, but all consuming, and after waiting a very respectable 29 years, I decided getting pregnant was my exit strategy out of the education system.  Mission accomplished, I took a career break to become a full time mum.  In that time I have gained a five year old girl, a two year old boy, an MA in Media and Culture, a Diploma in Creative Writing, a pile of short stories, poetry and life writing and two halves of a novel.  I have worked freelance as a writer, education consultant and an arts practitioner.  In this time I also experienced my greatest loss, that of my mum in January 2011.  My blog is my filing cabinet.

Mr A - Runs his own company.  Off the scale ‘P’ in Myers Briggs personality test talk, spontaneous and flexible.  I’m off the scale the other way ’J', a planner and organiser who likes things settled.  Go Team Alexander, wherever that takes us (I’ve got the babywipes, the nappies, the snacks, the map…)

Miss L – My firstborn, headstrong, determined and five.  Crazy blonde curly hair which she didn’t get from me. Freckles which she did.

Mr G – A very happy three year old camper who isn’t fazed by much, but aka as Am Dram for the amateur dramatic meltdown moments he took to performing on hitting the terrible twos (he may have got that from me).

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