Work life merge aka the merging of our work and home lives – part one…

Posted on January 2, 2013 by cambridgemummy

Work life merge – yes there’s now a “term” called work life merge. If you’re not interested in anything to do with this, I won’t be offended if you leave now. But if you are someone who juggles between work life and home life, read on :))

I read a really interesting article on the Guardian yesterday, about the “merging” of work and home lives. It gave me another added dimension to my thinking about how I’m putting myself on my own to do list. But rather than just spout off on one about it, I figured it would be a good idea to ask some other people I know to comment on it as well.

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A month of … putting myself on my to do list

Posted on January 2, 2013 by cambridgemummy

What’s on your “to do list”? Mine’s looking pretty interesting at the moment because my to do list is a special one – it’s focussed but not specific. It’s all come about because I had a really interesting conversation and debate with one of my clients last month. It started after I heard a quote from Michelle Obama:

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Cambridge Mummy on … can we have it all? (2)

Posted on July 3, 2012 by cambridgemummy

After so many people read the first blog post on this topic, I’ve decided to start a series of blogs on it. Heck, they’ve even got their own category!
Here’s a contribution from a close friend of mine…

“Can women have it all? What is this “women” you are talking of? Not the 12 year old girls who are married off and have their first children. Not the young women in the sweatshops in the majority world. So, let’s narrow this down a bit. We’re really talking about whether Western women can have it all. Actually, that’s a bit broad too. We’re not talking about upper class women with money; we’re not talking about working class women who are scraping by. So, narrowing it down even further this comes down to middle-class hand wringing. It comes down to those who have “enough” but have a sen

Cambridge Mummy on… whether we can have it all…

Posted on July 1, 2012 by cambridgemummy

Can Women Have It All?
This was a People’s Panel debate, conversation, whatever you want to call it, in the Guardian newspaper this week. And I joined in. Thousands of people were active in the conversation and then, a few were chosen for the actual page. For some reason, my contribution was chosen to be part of the follow up:

Chuffed to be chosen, I took to twitter and Facebook, to ask other people what they thought and the responses came flooding in, so I decided to make this part of my blog – an ongoing conversation about whether Women Can Have It All. Whatever All is!

So without further ado, here’s one of the posts, that someone pointed out to me, as being something that really resonated with them.

What do you think of it? Is life a buffet? Can you have some bits at one point and then go back for something else, or seconds?

The Cambridge Mummy blog on: Shifting the flubber

Posted on August 10, 2011 by cambridgemummy

Swimming for Liz Weston Cambridge Mummy Marketing Communications Expert

This is not me ;)

The one thing I don’t write about, anywhere, is my weight. Lots of other people do, and write really well about it. So for now, I just want to put it out there. I’m tired of being fat, of having problems with my tummy being so big, of having a horrible muffin top that keeps leaping out of my jeans. I know that I’m not that big, I know I could be bigger, I know I should be grateful for being who I am and looking like I do, but I want to feel better in my body.

So I’m fixing it. I’m eating less crap. And I’m swimming. And tonight I’ve done my best swim to date. 101 lengths, which are half of proper lengths, but involve lots of turning around, so I think they should count for more ;) And now I’m going to bed. Sweating. And in need of a shower in the morning.

I’ll write more positively about it tomorrow but for now I’m putting a marker in the sand. I’m going to kick my flubbers ass.

PS. If anyone could quote some research, true or otherwise, saying that if I lose weight my hair will grown quicker. There’s nothing like motivation!!!!

PPS. Image courtesy of arzunsushii.blogspot.com

Liz Weston is Cambridge Mummy, a self employed, full time working, mummy blogger and mummy to two lovely boys and wife to Lovely Bloke. They live in Cambridge (I know, but it’s good to be clear) and have a lovely life together. Most of the time.

Wellbeing of Women

Posted on April 18, 2011 by cambridgemummy

Wellbeing of Women is a charity that you are going to hear me talk about more regularly going forwards. Why?
Because I know the Chief Executive, Liz Campbell and I think she is a smart bird
Because I like what they are doing
Because their corporate relationships include the likes of Hobbs and Vitabiotics. I worship at the temple of both of these brands, so it makes sense for me to like Wellbeing of Women as well.

I have no commercial relationship with them or agenda per se. I just think they are working so hard right now, for the benefit of so many women and their families, that I’m marking myself here as being a supporter :)

I’ll get off my soapbox now and carry on with my regular stuff..