It almost feels like yesterday that I removed my Motorola razr phone from my school trouser pocket and tried my hardest to flip it open with one sudden movement of the wrist to answer my mum’s phone call, or received my LG chocolate slider phone one Christmas morning.

I remember my first period sat in a Year 7 Geography lesson, I felt a warm surge between my legs and quickly excused myself. A little unexpected, I was one of the first in my friendship group to start, I remember looking down at the blood on my underwear, stuffed some toilet paper into my pants and slipped back into class to whisper into my friend’s ear that the time had come with a smug look on my face as if I’d graduated the ranks.

The arrival of these Tree Dasher 2’s from Allbirds was the motivation I needed to get back to moving my body for the first time really (minus the failure to see Joe Wicks workouts through as part of my new year’s resolution in 2021) since I’ve had the kids.

Activism has been brought centre stage with the intensity and pressures of the past few years. With the tragic death of George Floyd, the release of David Attenborough’s ‘A Life on our Planet’ and the Netflix ‘Seaspiracy’ documentary to name a few things, our news feeds were full of petitions, crowdfunds and marches signifying a group of people wanting change. I too wasn’t satisfied with my black square or my repost of something that had moved me in the moment, I really wanted to really make a change that would last but, I didn’t know-how.

The majority of us have just spent the past two years indoors, but do we have any idea how clean the air is we have been breathing?

Poor air quality can be caused by a number of things. We may automatically assume poor air quality is a result of pollution from factories and cars but the truth is it can be from what we clean with, the nail polish we choose and the candles we’re burning.

Let’s face it, we’ve heard lots about bamboo and it’s being heralded as the world’s most renewable material, but is it really that good? Join me as I take a look at why so many companies are using bamboo, ask if it’s really sustainable and take a look at why Boody really are top of the class!

Back in mid- April just before Hephzibah’s second birthday it suddenly crossed my mind that lockdown was the perfect place to potty train.

Hephzibah had shown zero signs that she was ready to potty train. She hated having her nappy changed, seemed unaware of when she needed a poo or wee and would have happily hung out in a diaper with either of those in all day!

6 weeks into lockdown I committed to the thought that was flying around my head to start potty training Hephzibah. There had been no real signs that she was ready to potty train I just thought it would be worth a shot because we were at home all day with no where to go and liked the idea that there was very low-expectation so we could just see how it went.

Elvie pride themselves on bringing women’s technology out of the dark ages, wanting to improve women’s lives through smarter technology. Elvie is only their second product so far, standing alongside a Kegel trainer, that helps women to improve their pelvic floor. Earlier last month they released their new silent hassle free breast pump and everything kicked off!