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From Hobby to Full-Blown Business: How I Stopped Holding Myself Back and Built The Yorkshire Cake Company
How I went form hobby baker to business owner with a little help from my friends.
Adel Gascoigne
Apr 25 min read


I am my own woman – What’s a girl got to do to get a name around here?
A woman's worth is more than her connection, marital status, and motherly connection. Women deserve their name.
Adel Gascoigne
Mar 166 min read


When life's a soggy biscuit: How to keep your cool when your about to lose your shit.
I’d like to say that I’m one of those people who gracefully sails through life. But if you’re reading this, you know better.
Adel Gascoigne
Feb 64 min read


Trading Tarmac for Tranquility: A Townie’s Leap to the Yorkshire Hills
Well, it’s official. After years of navigating town life with its ever-present hum of traffic, dodging the latest urban slalom of abandoned trolleys, and perfecting the art of soot-removal post-London train journeys, we’re packing up and heading north to the rolling hills and crisp, clean air of North Yorkshire. Now, let’s be clear—I am a townie, through and through. Born in a town, raised in a town, and bringing up my kids in a town. If there were a league table for urban co
Adel Gascoigne
Nov 25, 20243 min read


The Modern Women: A one-women orchestra in a world still learning to listen.
Picture this: a woman walks into the office, smooth as you like, fixes a crisis before anyone notices the panic in the room, rushes home to sort the kids' dinner, then still has time to console her friend going through a breakup. She’s basically a human Swiss Army knife—doing everything, for everyone, all the time. But here we are in 2025, and people still question whether women are “really cut out for it.” Spoiler alert: we are, and then some. Yesterday, I met a woman who ep
Adel Gascoigne
Oct 7, 20245 min read


Motherhood and the Echoes of Guilt: A Reflective Journey
Why do we do it to ourselves? We did the best we could considering the circumstances, and you know what - we all turned out pretty well.
Adel Gascoigne
Sep 24, 20243 min read


Mummy Guilt - A Silent Epidemic
The silent epidemic that is mummy guilt, can't live with it can't live without it. How it manifests and know you're not alone
Adel Gascoigne
Oct 19, 20234 min read


Living a life after kids - Embracing the Empty Nest and Surviving the Emotional Rollercoaster!
Living a life after kids - Embracing the Empty Nest and Surviving the Emotional Rollercoaster!
Adel Gascoigne
Sep 1, 20236 min read


Autumn survival guide for Parents: Keeping Kids, Sanity, and the Spirit of Autumn Intact
The Autumn Survival Guide for Parents: Keeping Kids, Sanity, and the Spirit of Autumn Intact
Adel Gascoigne
Aug 30, 20233 min read


Mothering vs Parenting
Society has its opinions on how you should parents, but there is no one size fits all. its an evolving skill learn then to be unlearnt
Adel Gascoigne
Mar 3, 20234 min read


Rediscovery - A life after Motherhood
We spend so long creating an identity as a mother that we often forget who we are without it, so what happens when they move on?
Adel Gascoigne
Feb 27, 20235 min read
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