At The School Gates: I Can See Clearly Now…
Our urban mum Gia discovers just what it’s like to give up the smart phone… I can see clearly now, the email is gone. I can see all the possibilities…
Gia de Picciotto
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Gia de Picciotto is a blogger, mother, and lifetime journal keeper/storyteller. Gia has been documenting the trials and tribulations of mothers entering the new world of parenting for the past five years. Formerly the Director of Communications for Warner Music, and Double Click Inc (Google) and associate producer at ABC News, Gia has spent her career writing and telling stories to the media. Married to an Italian, with whom she has two cheeky sons. Gia has been living in London for 11 years and can’t be without green juice and a martini. In her next life she will be a rock star.
Forever Crazy About Paris
Are you ready to be seduced? Crazy Horse Paris, the most avant-garde cabaret that has been seducing a Parisian audience for years has arrived to tantalise Londontown. Forever Crazy is…
At The School Gate:Jetting Off On Holiday
School’s out. Finally! Sports day tick, birthday parties done, picnics over, packing up? Hope so. “Mom, are we going on holiday tomorrow?” “No darling, next week.” These days it’s not…
At The School Gate: Competitive Parties
Do you remember your third birthday party when the theme was third birthday party? Will Jack remember his, ‘I am three, welcome to my bakery?’ Today birthday parties are a…
At The School Gates: School Run Chic
Our new series looks at how competitive it has become to be a fashionable urban mum. From what you wear and what you give your children to eat at lunchtime…
First Cut: Your Child’s First Professional Haircut
A trip to the hairdresser has never been straight forward in our family. I have been known to send my husband to a different hair salon each month over the…
Mummy Paranoia
Holding the front door open with one hand and blowing kisses with the other, I feel an all too familiar sense of panic as I leave the flat to meet…