Description: Men write columns in Sunday supplements about their ‘walk on parts’ in family life and how exhausted ‘the Mrs’ looks on a Friday night in a house looking like it has been subject to a Viking attack. I hate these smug men. I burn their columns quite ceremoniously in the wood burner, watching their faces…
Men write columns in Sunday supplements about their ‘walk on parts’ in family life and how exhausted ‘the Mrs’ looks on a Friday night in a house looking like it has been subject to a Viking attack. I hate these smug men. I burn their columns quite ceremoniously in the wood burner, watching their faces crinkle to ash while I empty the dishwasher, cook a meal, answer the phone and moan bitterly about the cliché that men are unable to multi-task. I have watched friends and Brigit my partner, receive honorary
I left my job to live a ‘different life’. Chloe, our first daughter was born, followed by the twins Ruby, Emma and then Ollie. I was yet to write the great novel or grow the huge carrot. Armed with ‘The Complete Guide to Childcare’ and a fantasy of blissful, puke-free days, I stepped into a world the Sunday supplements described as ‘the new nirvana’; -full-time fathers and families turning the traditional roles on their head. I felt my self-esteem sink like the Titanic, realising that ‘The Complete Guide to
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