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Vicky Charles

Vicky is a single mother, writer and card reader.

Book Review: The Mumsnet Book of Animal Stories

  S and I were very lucky to be sent a copy of The Mumsnet Book of Animal Stories to review. The books I normally review are either adult ones, or kids’ ones where they can sit and read them themselves. This is a proper, old-fashioned story book that you sit Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years7 years ago

Moving House & Dealing With the Fallout.

  For those who don’t know, we moved house last week. In the week or so before the move, I was trying desperately to juggle my workload (oh, the joys of being self employed) with caring for S, and packing. My mum had S a couple of days so that Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years8 years ago

Weekend Blog Hop 2014-10-18

Happy Weekend Everyone! Just 9 more Fridays until Christmas!! Eeek! I’m quite looking forward to it this year as S will be old enough to appreciate it. First up, I must apologise to everyone for not commenting on blog posts this week. I moved house, and everything has gone to Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years8 years ago

The One Where Vicky Goes on Telly

Last Sunday, my mum had S for me so that I could sort out some important things at home. I spent the whole day upstairs sorting through piles of junk, and just as S was due to come home, I popped onto the laptop to check my emails. As usual, Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years5 years ago

Why I Spoke About My Breakdown

  I went on national TV and talked about my breakdown. In the days following, I received numerous messages of support – from friends, from family members, from people I’d not seen for years or was only really vaguely acquainted with in the first place, and from perfect strangers. Comments Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years5 years ago

What Happens When You Have a Breakdown?

  I make no secret of the fact I had a breakdown in 2010. I think it probably stuns a few people when I talk about it, but it was a year or more of my life; I can’t just pretend none of it happened. I think a lot of Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years5 years ago

Fancy a Cruise?

I’ve been chatting to a few people lately about holidays. I’ve not been on holiday since well before S was born, and I’m hoping next Summer we’ll be able to get away for a break. When I’m looking at holidays I like to browse around a lot – day dreaming, Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years ago

Stop Telling Me What To Do!

  Parenting is probably the one thing in life where people aren’t really open to each other’s approaches. I mean, in theory, yes: we’re all different, we all raise our children slightly differently, and the world marches on. In practise though, if you’re doing something very differently to how I Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years8 years ago

Talk Talk Kids’ Boost: Perfect for Lazy Weekends

As you may or may not know, I am a TalkTalk ambassador and have been lucky enough to sample their services for the last few months. TalkTalk have this great thing where you can add a Boost to your TV package for a month, and pay a one-off fee. There’s Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years8 years ago

Book Review: Toddlercalm

  I have written before about how much I love ToddlerCalm, so I thought it was about time I wrote a review. I have a real problem with parenting experts; I dislike people who expound the correct way of doing things, who tell you what you should be doing. I don’t take Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years7 years ago

Long Term vs Short Term Parenting

I’ve been thinking lately, about the difference between short term and long term parenting. Or really, short term and long term anything. I think once you become a parent you tend to start thinking about the long term. Now that there’s someone else to consider we often find that we’re thinking Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years4 years ago

The #OctoberLetters Project

  Some of you may recall that I gave up social media for Lent. And for September, I’ve been experimenting with cutting out sugar. I decided it might be fun to have a challenge for October too, so I asked around a bit. Someone on Facebook suggested that I write Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years8 years ago
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Two Years

Seeing Kit this week has had me thinking a lot about the past two years. This time two years ago, I was just preparing to move into this flat. I had just gotten back together with S’s father for the last time. I thought I had seven weeks left of Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 8 years2 years ago
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Prozac Nation?

This is the next part of my story of my breakdown. The first part can be found here. This is something originally written in 2010/11…   At home, I sit and look at the Prozac. Do I want to do this? These little blue and green pills, they look so Read more…

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By Vicky Charles, 9 years2 years ago

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