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Returning to Blogging and Being a Housewife

Shockingly, it has been over a year since I last wrote anything for this blog. Since then a few things have happened. Firstly, I am pregnant again. Secondly the middle class job I was humble-bragging about in my last post (never underestimate the element of humble-bragging in any left wing acknowledgement of privilege) has gone completely tits up. With the result, that I am now, once more, a housewife. And, true to stereotype, I am returning to Mummy-Blogging. So far today, I have got up with my 2 and a half year old, gone to toddler group, come home again and put him down for a nap. Now I am pissing about on some feminist facebook pages and writing a blog post. This is my life now. It is the kind of gentle existence that is just perfect for someone still licking her wounds after failing disastrously to hold down a job. I fully expect it to be stultifying boring in about 6 months’ time. So, just to break the blogging inertia, here are some observations on my current situation. First