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Policy & influencing at @_GoodPolicy • @Pandas_UK trustee • @FutureVCSE cofounder • Coeliac • Fan of equality, health & care policy & potatoes

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Holly Cameron

4 years

What was it like growing up with two mums in the 1990s? As Pride month closes, I want to share some reflections by way of saying what I hope is different for kids of LGBTQ+ parents these days - including what we can all do to help make sure of this. 👇 #LoveIsLove #Pride

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3 years

My husband was in charge of dinner tonight and just presented me with this

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VERY happy 2 year old with his outfit based on his favourite book, the Highway Code, for World Book Day…

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3 years

A piece entitled ‘Hedgehog in the Grass’

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Flowers from my husband accompanied by this incredibly moving message 🥹

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3 years

If any pregnant women are unsure about getting the covid jab, I had both my doses whilst pregnant & here is my happy and healthy (and yawn-y) 10 week old! I found ⁦ @RCObsGyn ⁩, ⁦ @PregnantScrewed ⁩ & ⁦ @VikiLovesFACS ⁩ very helpful for info.

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3 years

@Mrs_Malteser I’ve just shown the husband this for future inspiration. He loves it.

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4 years

One definite perk of working from home is that I never have to make tea with a fork or knife unlike in every charity I have ever worked in #WhereDoTheSpoonsGo

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Holly Cameron

3 years

The CEO of a charity I once worked for complained to my manager he’d seen me leave work ON TIME. Not only is presenteeism toxic, but you never know what’s going on in you team’s lives & their own time must be respected. In this case I was leaving to go to therapy.

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Holly Cameron

3 years

5 years since I graduated from from the @OpenUniversity having spent 7 years on a psychology degree alongside full time work. Every time you see the OU on a CV, know the vast majority of students are balancing study around other big commitments & that qualification is hard won!

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5 years

@davidmbarnett ‘Have a nice afterboob’ 🤦‍♀️

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Holly Cameron

3 years

Yesterday’s waiting for the baby activity was quite literally that - the little breech boy would not turn so entered the world bum first via c-section. Little Lewis, a chubby cheeked, 6lb 9oz, very special rainbow baby ❤️🌈

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Holly Cameron

3 years

I’m really excited to be rejoining the cancer sector today in starting at the brilliant @TeenageCancer as it’s interim Head of Policy, Public Affairs and Campaigns. I’m looking forward to making a difference and reconnecting with colleagues in the sector!

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3 years

@mncarson We’re lucky wives 😁

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Holly Cameron

2 years

Dear service providers, if you’ve now been experiencing ‘unprecedented high demand’ for two and a half years since the pandemic started, it’s now your usual demand and you need to up your resourcing to meet it.

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Holly Cameron

8 months

He’s been obsessed with “Code” since I did my theory test last year. It’s regular breakfast reading. The road sign pages are his favourite, he says they are “beautiful” & has his own names for all of them 😄

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1 year

Yet another morning of my almost two year old insisting we read his favourite book to him

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1 year

Well pals, today I turned 40. People keep asking me how I feel about it like I’m turning 100, but genuinely, I think every year of life you get with people you love is a privilege and so today I am just grateful. And especially with my new tiny person!

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3 years

This feels like quite a vulnerable thing to say, but I’ve been surprised at just how lonely I’ve found parts of my maternity leave to be. And how this is common but something no one really talks about. Finding people on your wavelength to spend time with can take a while.

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Holly Cameron

3 years

I wish we would all start say covid ‘protections’ instead of ‘restrictions’. It’s ultimately protections being lifted. Words matter, and I wonder how things may be different if we’d got this right at the start.

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Holly Cameron

4 years

After recently experiencing something hard, I’m restarting counselling this week with my brilliant former therapist. Why am I telling you this? Because we need to normalise talking about - and looking after - our mental health and I want to play my part in this #mentalhealth

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3 years

@toria_jay Proposal was ring strapped to the cat, lured in with cat treats, so equally creative 😁

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3 years

@realcnl I mean, with this calibre they may as well just crown him the @MasterChefUK winner now and save the other contestants the hassle.

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1 year

Baby Fraser has arrived! He’s a small but perfect 5lb 13oz and so far we think we’ll keep him.

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Holly Cameron

4 years

I’m so delighted to have joined the brilliant @SEAresource team today as Head of Policy and Influencing - quite a time to be starting a new job! I can’t wait to get stuck in and support @nicolajanesharp and the team in continuing to transform the response to economic abuse ✊

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Holly Cameron

2 years

Someone said ‘baby brain!’ to me yesterday after a very minor mistake and I’m still fed up. I hate the implication that once a woman’s had a child her brain doesnt work so well. Human error is a thing!!

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Holly Cameron

3 years

I just had my first vaccine at 29 weeks pregnant. Getting vaccinated when pregnant has felt like a big decision - whilst we can be vaccinated, the onus is on pregnant people to make that choice, weighing up benefits & potential risks, & getting advice from professionals.

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Holly Cameron

2 years

I was asked recently who my hero is & I replied ⁦ @Joeli_Brearley ⁩. Here’s just one example why. The work she’s led with the ⁦ @PregnantScrewed ⁩ team has been incredible in changing so many women’s lives for the better! 👏

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Budget 2023: Jeremy Hunt to announce £4bn boost for childcare in England

Exclusive: Chancellor will promise to provide extra 30 hours a week to parents of one- and two-year olds

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Holly Cameron

3 years

Thanks to everyone for all the good wishes on the arrival of tiny Cameron. I will reply properly when I am less sleep deprived 🤪😁

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Holly Cameron

3 years

Yesterday’s waiting for the baby activity was quite literally that - the little breech boy would not turn so entered the world bum first via c-section. Little Lewis, a chubby cheeked, 6lb 9oz, very special rainbow baby ❤️🌈

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3 years

Having channeled Worzel Gummidge for the past five weeks, today I had time to put on proper clothes and make up and it was quite the thrill! #Newborn

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Holly Cameron

2 years

I saw all these security protected boxes of formula in Sainsbury’s earlier and it made me so sad. Imagine how desperate you’d have to be to steal food to feed your baby. And how terrifying the prospect of not being able to feed your baby would be.

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Holly Cameron

3 years

I’m beyond thrilled that I’ve been appointed permanently to my role at the brilliant @TeenageCancer ! As I’ll be going on maternity leave in September I’ll be sharing details of recruitment for my cover soon so watch this space if you’re after a fantastic fixed term contract.

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Holly Cameron

5 years

This is how P asks to be stroked ❤️

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Holly Cameron

2 years

Tomorrow is national ‘it was nice thanks, how was yours?’ day.

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3 years

One decade ago today, I met my husband… 😁

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Holly Cameron

3 years

All hail the power of Twitter - I’ve just had my second covid jab a few weeks early & at almost 34 weeks pregnant thanks to the kindness of people who shared tips. Thank you ❤️ But so many pregnant women haven’t been as lucky as me - & it shouldn’t be down to luck to stay safe.

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Holly Cameron

3 years

I’d love to see specific train carriages designated for mask wearers (preferably with social distancing too) so that vulnerable people feel safer to travel come the end of restrictions. Public transport should be accessible and safe for all.

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Holly Cameron

2 years

Footage of public affairs and campaigns teams across the UK, trying to work out what this all means for their plans

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Holly Cameron

3 years

I am still masking. If it makes someone vulnerable feel more comfortable to sit near me on a public transport then that makes it all worth it to me and why I’ll continue to wear one.

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4 years

Really enjoyed this household’s self-awarded Ofsted rating:

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3 years

Today was my last day at the brilliant @TeenageCancer ahead of my maternity leave 😱 Feels so strange to be clocking off for almost a year! I will miss my ace colleagues but am excited about the next adventure with my new tiny person.

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4 years

9 years ago today, I met my husband... 😂 (and forgive me for the sort of posts I did in my mid-20s...)

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3 years

Four months of this little guy! I am more tired than I could ever have imagined but he is such a bringer of joy 😊

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Holly Cameron

5 years

Please everyone, don’t buy from the free from aisles at the moment if you don’t need to - people with allergies and and conditions like coeliac disease means we rely on these products to be able to safely eat.

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4 years

Pandemic observation: I’ve never done so little at the weekends and yet felt so completely not ready for Monday every time it comes around.

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Holly Cameron

3 years

Instead of calling him Uncle Duncan, all our nieces and nephews call my husband Duncle and it brings me disproportionate amounts of joy.

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Holly Cameron

2 years

Went for a walk, found a stowaway #NotMyCat

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Holly Cameron

2 years

Wow it was emotional moving out our flat. I’ll miss the beautiful parquet floors that saw so much life. It was our first owned home. Where we got engaged & had a huge party after our small wedding. Where we brought our baby home & lost two others. Here’s to make new memories ❤️

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Holly Cameron

5 years

My life as a coeliac summed up in a sentence that I uttered to a colleague today: “Can I sniff your biscuit?”

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1 year

I love seeing this pop up on my Facebook every year as reader, I married him…

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2 years

Fellow coeliacs, these are DELICIOUS.

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Holly Cameron

4 years

Are you looking for any charity policy, campaigns or public affairs support, short or long term? If so, get in touch for a chat! A job I was due to start Monday has fallen through at the last minute, and so I find myself unexpectedly free...

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Holly Cameron

4 years

Today’s my birthday. These past few months have been some of the toughest but today I’m celebrating the privilege of having had another year of life, loving, and being loved ❤️

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Holly Cameron

3 years

I popped down to my local vaccination clinic to see if they’d flex policy & give me my 2nd covid jab a few weeks early given I’m in my third trimester of pregnancy & in group 6 & so have 2 risk factors. It was a no. I cried a lot. I’m tired of being scared for me & my baby.

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Holly Cameron

2 years

Women looking out for women - waiting for a taxi home from the station as it’s late: one appears and the woman ahead of me offers to share it so I’m not alone and then insists on paying as it’s my first proper evening out after becoming a mum. Strangers can be lovely!

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Holly Cameron

2 years

We’re so incredibly lucky to be moving from a flat into a house and it feel so exciting and fancy that we’re going to have INSIDE STAIRS 🤩

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Holly Cameron

5 years

@CCriadoPerez Telling them science, but getting back the fabulously irrelevant response of “I’m the mother in this relationship!” Clearly family hierarchy trumps science 🤷‍♀️

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1 year

@lisavquigley Might get him to read it to me aloud tonight so I can feel all the emotion.

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4 years

My husband’s trying out his new power washer on the patio and he genuinely looks happier than he did on our wedding day

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5 years

@notgavin Splendid. We involved our cat and it was great.

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1 year

I have officially signed out of work and now hopefully have a couple weeks of just being a human egg in front of me before the tiny boy arrives

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Holly Cameron

4 years

This is the only item of clothing I’ve bought in ten years that my husband’s explicitly told me he hates. And I don’t care because it that special kind of ugly-fabulous and 2020 needs sequins 💁‍♀️

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Holly Cameron

4 years

Finally, if you are kid in an LGBTQ+ family reading this, I hope things are different for you than they were for me in the ‘90s & that, like me, the love in your family gives you the strength to overcome anyone who treats you differently. And either way, I’m your ally 💪

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Holly Cameron

6 years

Best tonic to Brexit before bed 🥰

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6 years

Guy biking across the world finds a kitten he can't leave behind 😻

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2 years

I wish the end of the working year was like at school where your teacher would wheel in the tv trolley and you’d watch the same VHS film about 7 times before the term ended and it was wonderful.

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2 years

My first and only interior design tip is to alway buy carpets the colour you make your tea or coffee.

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2 years

Once again national donut week and coeliac awareness week cruelly coincide.

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Holly Cameron

3 years

I’ve just taken every single ‘maybe I’ll fit into it again one day’ item of clothing I own to the charity shop and wow it feels good. I would heartily recommend.

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Holly Cameron

4 years

This whole combining a household ‘bubble’ thing for people living alone means that my mum is finally going to have declare which of us is her favourite child.

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Holly Cameron

6 years

@CalumAM Err, Round the Twist, obviously!

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Holly Cameron

7 years

It's #mactakeover day! If you see @macmillancancer folk around London with green buckets please donate and help us support #lifewithcancer 💚

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Holly Cameron

3 years

My dad chose not to be in my or sister’s lives so every year on his birthday my sister and I buy ourselves a present instead and then natter about what we’ve picked as our own sister tradition. Today self gift is a ring and a sharing bar of Galaxy I won’t be sharing 🙂

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Holly Cameron

4 years

Three years ago, my husband proposed to me by strapping a ring box to the cat’s back and putting her in a bow tie for the occasion.

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Holly Cameron

3 years

Today’s the start of Pride month & so I’m re-sharing this - a thread about my two mums which remains the most important thing to me that I’ve ever posted 🌈 #PrideMonth2021

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Holly Cameron

4 years

What was it like growing up with two mums in the 1990s? As Pride month closes, I want to share some reflections by way of saying what I hope is different for kids of LGBTQ+ parents these days - including what we can all do to help make sure of this. 👇 #LoveIsLove #Pride

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Holly Cameron

7 months

News! After several great years at @TeenageCancer I’ve decided to embark on freelance policy and influencing work when I return from maternity leave in September. Details to follow but do bear me in mind if you need support from late summer! 👇

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2 years

I thought I had a pretty good immune system until my child started nursery and bringing home illnesses that sounds like they’re from the Victorian era.

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Holly Cameron

3 years

Reminded of the time my husband sweetly sent me flowers with the following touching message from the heart

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Holly Cameron

3 years

Twitter analytics, keeping me grounded in the face of a popular tweet 😆

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2 years

It was when packing this into a suitcase before going on holiday that I realised the transformation into my mother was complete.

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Holly Cameron

3 years

In case your timeline needs brightening this Monday, here is a photo of me rocking an 80s mullet as a small child. Thanks, mum.

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Holly Cameron

4 years

It’s fitting for my upbringing that pride month coincides with Father’s Day. My dad chose not to be in my life & I have two brilliant mums instead. Families come in all shapes & sizes and not all of us have dads who give us reason to celebrate today #LoveIsLove

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Holly Cameron

4 years

My main take away from this tweet is that there should be more investment in developing a contraceptive pill that poses less risk to women 🤷‍♀️

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3 years

Yes, Teams, I know I’m on mute. It’s because I’m eating biscuits.

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Holly Cameron

5 years

Who said romance is dead? Here’s the heartfelt message my husband included with some flowers...

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Holly Cameron

6 months

I don’t tweet much about having coeliac disease but with awareness month i thought I’d share my story. I was diagnosed at 21. I’d been in a great deal of pain & discomfort for some time & I couldn’t manage a full day at uni due to pain. It really impacted my life.

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Today we launch our month long campaign to drive awareness of coeliac disease. Did you know that an estimated 500,000 people in the UK are living with undiagnosed coeliac disease? That’s why this year, we’re doubling down on our mission to find those individuals and guide

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6 years

@OCDUK I cooked for 12 people today despite a history of contamination ocd and it felt like such a big win for me! I hope others have had a good day and those who’ve struggled have had the support they need 🙂

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3 years

Wearing in our valentines threads…

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2 years

I can’t believe the littlest Cameron turns one today! 🤯

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3 years

Unexpected pen pals: My great aunt (84, upstate New York) got a kitten this year, and my husband (34, London) writes snail mail to it as our cat, Pepper, and she replies to Pepper as the kitten…

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Holly Cameron

4 years

I was thinking the other day how much I wanted some lovely cheering flowers & how I wished my husband was a mind reader & would buy me some. Then I realised I was a grown woman who deserved a treat now & again & so I ordered myself some with a card & everything 💁‍♀️ #LoveYourself

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8 months

@72Scopley I just showed him and he keeps saying ‘I want to wear it mummy!’ 😊

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3 years

Home after an unexpected two day stay in hospital (the baby & I are thankfully fine). Very knackered but cheered by the fact that the baby’s cheeks are so noteworthily chubby that an obstetrician pointed them out on a scan 🙂

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4 years

Well done to all my domestic abuse sector colleagues who’ve briefed Lords ahead of today’s Second Reading of the Domestic Abuse Bill 👏 special mention of all of you who live tweeted throughout the full 7.5 hours of it! 💪 great work on behalf of women everywhere.

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4 years

Today’s my last day at @SEAresource before I head off for pastures new. It’s been such a privilege to be part of this small-but-mighty charity working to improve the lives of women experiencing abuse, & amazing to work w a group of such inspiring women led by @nicolajanesharp .

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2 years

The amount of geography I learn from the Go Jetters is frankly embarrassing.

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2 years

Today is my absent dad’s birthday - the day I buy myself a present and celebrate myself instead

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7 years

A couple snaps from my lovely wedding day ☺️

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3 years

Re-sharing this in light of the awful stats published today on the number of pregnant women who’ve died of covid. Being double jabbed in pregnancy may have saved both my and my son’s lives. And we’re off to get my booster today!

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3 years

If any pregnant women are unsure about getting the covid jab, I had both my doses whilst pregnant & here is my happy and healthy (and yawn-y) 10 week old! I found ⁦ @RCObsGyn ⁩, ⁦ @PregnantScrewed ⁩ & ⁦ @VikiLovesFACS ⁩ very helpful for info.

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3 years

After 5 months of new mum life, going for my first haircut in almost a year, with a HOT coffee, was such a treat. And my poked eye looks less terrifying!

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2 years

I’ll be Chancellor at Christmas at this rate.

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1 year

Yet another morning of my almost two year old insisting we read his favourite book to him

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