# callie (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover callie. Page: Feed: --- ## [I’m hiding in the kitchen. Eating sugar snap peas straight from the packet.](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/im-hiding-in-the-kitchen-eating-sugar) _2026-08-21 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ (Makes me think of Cassandra - “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink” - brownie points if you know the book 📕) ## [Even if it was flying far too close to the wire - We are on our way 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/even-if-it-was-flying-far-too-close) _2026-08-19 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ Toby sent this photo from his window in the new house this morning. It all looks so green! ## [Beehives over fillers and botox - any day.](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/beehives-over-fillers-and-botox-any) _2026-08-17 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ I feel a little bit like I’m stuck in a time warp where I am the only one ageing. I’ve never had a filler or botox. I don’t use photoshop or facetune. And I look like the middle aged woman that I am. ## [Someone came to the house yesterday and laughed when they spotted 'Mummy’s Commandments' but I stand by them.](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/someone-came-to-the-house-yesterday) _2026-08-16 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ I want them to be good humans. I want them to read books and offer to do the washing up. I want them to look you in the eye when they’re talking to you. To open doors for people. ## [Sleepless Nights](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/sleepless-nights) _2026-08-15 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ I manage to sleep at first and then, boom, I’m awake at eleven and then that’s it. Wide eyes. Staring into the night. ## [Schadenfreude](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/schadenfreude) _2026-08-13 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ I think she had it in for me because I was not remotely smart. I wasn’t clever. I wasn’t even particularly sporty. I definitely wasn’t well connected. ## [In a nutshell…](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/in-a-nutshell) _2026-08-12 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ A little recap. Just in case you have no clue who I am. I am Callie. I’m a mother to three boys. A wife to Toby. I’ve just published my first novel, Tangled Webs. It’s part of a trilogy. Next book to be published in July. The third in July 2028. That sounds like such a long way away. I have no doubt it will creep up on me though. ## [We have all had our heads buried in the sand a bit.](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/we-have-all-had-our-heads-buried) _2026-08-08 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ T - 3 weeks ## [God Bless America 📚♥️](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/god-bless-america) _2026-08-03 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ In January this frazzled Englishwoman asked for your help on the other side of the pond. ## [I am fairly certain I am going to give birth to our fourth child in the footwell of my car…](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/i-am-fairly-certain-i-am-going-to) _2026-08-02 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ I am in my seven month of pregnancy. I am wildly superstitious. I’m not very practical. Where do you think the line can be drawn in the sand for beginning preparations? ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5LVsYxaN3ICI) _2026-08-02 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [Pub Day! 💚🌱📚](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/pub-day) _2026-07-16 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ Good morning, ## [Spilt milk 🥛, War and Peace; Books and spinning plates 📚](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/spilt-milk-war-and-peace-books-and) _2026-07-11 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ I’ve never really worried about the heat before. I always just thought that I was cold-blooded. Piscean through and through. However these past few days have been brutal. I had to take my husband’s 40 year old Land Rover into town yesterday with the children. Toby is away. I feel like a spinnaker that has lost its ropes. Wildly lost at sea. ## [Sticks and Stones](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/sticks-and-stones) _2026-06-26 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ I’ve had that thought - but ten times worse ## [The Father’s Day conundrum.](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/the-fathers-day-conundrum) _2026-06-17 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ Hopefully solved 🙏🏼 ## [I thought you were moving house? You look far too produced these days. I’m so disappointed that you’ve put make up on. Your life looks fake and like an advert.](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/i-thought-you-were-moving-house-you) _2026-06-16 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ I thought I’d address a few of the outraged comments I received on my Instagram account over the last few days. I have more space to do it here but it is probably fruitless as I doubt the real cross patches will bother to read more from me. However, it has been bothering me - so I will answer them - even if it’s only helpful to restore order in my own mind. ## [He wanted to be called Grumpy Grampy. I couldn’t manage that.](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/he-wanted-to-be-called-grumpy-grampy) _2026-06-10 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ Gobbi Gobbi it became, and stuck forevermore. ## ['One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time.'](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/one-table-spoonful-to-be-taken-at) _2026-06-06 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ My trigger this morning. Another wet, tangled towel abandoned on the floor in my husband’s dressing room. Does he still not know - after YEARS of relentless nagging - that they don’t dry in a bedraggled heap on the carpet? ## [A tangle of words and emotions](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/a-tangle-of-words-and-emotions) _2026-06-01 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ I lost my second grandfather last night. I hadn’t seen him for ten years. I’m overflowing; full of complicated sentimentality. ## [How do you quantify a great person? How do you measure a disaster?](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/how-do-you-quantify-a-great-person) _2026-05-30 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ (How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?) ## [A few thoughts about making an average week - a bit better…](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/a-few-thoughts-about-making-an-average) _2026-05-16 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ I know it sounds so obvious but I’ve been struggling with life a bit. I’ve felt so rubbish that common sense kind of flew off out the window recently. But. Eating well. Every day. Is so important. I read a book a few weeks ago that changed my standard pregnancy survival MO (eating boost bars, rye krisp and marmite 24/7 as many times a day as possible to keep the chronic nausea at bay for 40… ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/0JUxUFOtDHnn) _2026-05-16 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [Walking, breathing, living on eggshells…](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/walking-breathing-living-on-eggshells) _2026-05-05 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ My 12th pregnancy. ## ["Didn’t your parents love you?](https://calliecoles.substack.com/p/didnt-your-parents-love-you) _2026-04-25 · Callie Coles · Callie Coles_ I remember people saying to me, in fact, it still happens.