Conor’s grandma had driven him back to her house when his mum had fallen asleep after not eating her dinner. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“My mum said we need to make allowances for you,” Lily finally said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Only by fightin' for everythin’ he loved, see, me, my mum, his family, our home, the lot, only then could Dad take the pain. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He was talking about my mum and dad dying.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“If your mum weren’t the president and you were just a normal bloke living a normal life, what things might be like? What you’d be doing instead?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He could see his mum’s hand, still outstretched, her eyes still closed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He’d barely turned out the light when his mum had very apologetically—and very groggily—come in to kiss him good night. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

We ended up with more fabric than we could carry out ourselves, and Holly gave us two yards of the mum fabric for free. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Hello, mum, no charge for the little one, but if he starts to squawk you’d best give him the tit quick or take him outside.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My mum wanted Albert to tell you sooner, she really did, but you know Albert. He’s so stubborn.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now, mums are so heavy that they have to be worn around your neck. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

‘I know what’s my duty to report and what’s my duty to keep mum about. Take military secrets. I don’t tell them.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Marcus’s mum is outside in a squad car, with another officer, waiting. She wanted you to hear his story too. When he’s done, we’ll take them home.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First her mum gets the sickness, and then when draggers take her mum to the Field? And her pa go to watch the spirit?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you go and put the kettle on for me and your mum?” she said, making it sound not like a question at all. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You’ve had breakfast?” his mum asked, leaning against the kitchen doorframe. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Your father may not notice how tired your mum’s been getting, okay?” she said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I tried to save things but it’s mostly all burnt. Just your cott, Kira. Not like when there’s a big sickness. This time it just be your mum.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother was mum, bored and neutral on the subject. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Conor,” his mum snapped, so harshly it seemed to surprise them both. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It is something I saw my mum do when she took care of a baby whose mother had died, until she could find a wet nurse. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Your mum’s taken a turn, Con,” his father said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

"There's those as would be unhealthily interested in such information. Better keep mum. But never lie." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a huge digital clock on the wall of the dining hall, bought sometime in the seventies as the latest in technology and never replaced, even though it was older than Conor’s mum. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

They carried off young Colin and his mum and dad, but try as they would there was no laying claws on Ambrose Spike, no sir. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He thought about calling her himself, but she’d already yelled at him once when her ringtone had woken up his mum. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His grandma’s house was cleaner than his mum’s hospital room. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

‘Dad says it was full of drugs and needles and suicidal mums. And cockroaches.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the time Conor and his mum had stayed in a bed-and-breakfast one summer in Cornwall. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“But,” his mum said, voice still thick but smiling again. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, her mum taught her, and to make the colors from them.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I gave my order as soberly as I could, and slamming down the door, with an “Aye, aye, mum,” the man made his horse walk, as if going to a funeral. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, Thomas, the tyke below—Jo? She was crying. Sobbing. She wanted her mum, she said.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“AIDS. Princess Diana even came last year for a visit to show people you can’t catch it just from being near someone. My mum met her.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Are you being a good boy for your mum?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you to wake my mum.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His mum didn’t move, though she looked a little worried at what he’d said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Our mum, she thrashed Matt so hard he was horrid bloody, and so him and Branchie, they goed on a journey and they not be coming back, not to the Fen,” the tyke announced. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A domed planter of rust-colored mums sits on either side of the steps. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s the smile I love,” his mum said, reaching for the kettle as it clicked off. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“When my mum was sick,” he says slowly. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“She be an orphan now. Her mum and pa, they died,” he explained. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The best mums are homemade with giant artificial chrysanthemums on cardboard backing with huge streams of ribbon hanging from them. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Conor saw it was Lily’s mum calling and let it go to voice mail. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

On the weekends, after Baba cycles along the river, the two of them tackle the garden side by side, planting mums and seeding new raised beds with beets, radishes, and garlic. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Luckily, my mum hardly ever comes in here.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Your mum’s waiting,” she said, pulling the front door shut behind her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I sit down for second period next to Mitch, there’s a huge blue, yellow, and white mum spread out across my desk. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And so Conor looked back down at his mum, at her outstretched hand. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“What? My — my mum and dad weren’t famous, were they?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Who everyone’s sorry for because of his mum. Who swans around school acting like he’s so different, like no one knows his suffering.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

My mum threatens us with weird punishments sometimes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is he talking to your mum and dad again?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Next he cruised past where his mum was sitting having coffee and she looked straight at him and didn't recognize him. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are a witch. I’ve been watching you for a while. But there’s nothing wrong with that. My mum’s one, and I’m a wizard.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you can believe it,” his mum continued, not noticing, “this drug is actually made from yew trees.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Diana Turbot’s mum screamed as a string of whopping pearls unstringed themselves and bounced under hundreds of feet. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

My mum, she softened him a bit, but when she was gone he turned to stone. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He listened for a moment, but nothing stirred, no sound from his mum or his grandma. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, sweetheart,” his mum said, smiling at him out of view of his grandma, still inviting him to join with her against her mother. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

A gallery like my mum's would snap it up, I reckon. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Made m’ mum buy me one of those godawful outfits with the skinny black leggings and the oversize jackets —” “Bandanna?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He really began to cry now, more than he thought he’d ever done, more even than when he found out his mum was ill. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Is he?” his mum slurred, not opening her eyes. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

When no one on the team brings up outer space or anything Russ said last night, I figure Coach must’ve talked to all the other team members and instructed them to stay mum. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except my mum teaching me how to read—that, I sat still for. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Only a couple of nights,” his mum said, as if she could read his mind. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I just wonder if your mum and me had stuck together, despite our problems, if things would’a gone better for Fox.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s what my mum does whenever someone’s upset,” Ron muttered, shrugging. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Salim went down to London with his mum on Sunday. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ha! Your church will keep mum till kingdom come,” Minerva was always challenging me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You and your mum need to like each other. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He hopped up on the garden table where his mum used to drink Pimm’s in the summer, and he lifted himself up and over the back fence. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His grandma had finally gotten his mum to bed and then had gone into Conor’s bedroom and shut the door, not asking if he wanted anything out of it before she went to sleep herself. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m here, darling,” his grandma said, still holding his mum’s hand. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

HARRY: Actually you’re more like your mum—bold, fierce, funny— which I like—which I think makes you a pretty great son. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost as good as my mum’s. My mum’s is thicker than what yours is. I expect you roll it harder.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

This ... is the last thing I had from my mum. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

It had been a surprise trip to the cinema on a school night, to a film Conor had already seen four times but knew his mum was sick to death of. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to see your mum and dad,” Ron said eagerly. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

But not 'cause Mum's Mum, only 'cause Mum's a mum. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A clock that was probably worth more than his mum’s whole beaten-up car. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mom hands me a bouquet of red mums, which I cradle like a Miss Preteen Sampaguita. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Their mums were friends from before Conor and Lily were born, and Lily had been like a sister who lived in another house, especially when one mum or the other would babysit. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I need to see my mum,” he protested. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

With a mum an’ dad like yours, what else would yeh be? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“My mum. My dad doesn’t live here. His flat’s above the bakery, remember?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, son,” his mum said, tears sneaking out of her eyes now, even though she kept up her smile. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Your dad’ll be here soon, and I’m going to see your mum.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

‘My mum gave it to me for going to New York. I wanted a digital one, but she says this kind will make a better photographer of me in the long run.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Shall we go down and help your mum with dinner?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She phoned my mum that evening and one week later I was taken to see Mrs. de Roo, the speech therapist at Malvern Link Clinic. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Your mum left your room exactly as it was when you ran away—you know that? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She had been thinking, My mum will kill me. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“I have to get back to my mum.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Your mum said the shop’s going well,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“The other reason your grandma was mad at me was because she doesn’t think me or your mum have been honest enough with you. About what’s really happening.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His mum had her own bread and cereal which she bought at a health-food shop in town and which Conor thankfully didn’t have to share. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a moment I was excited, when I realized time was different, a moment when I thought maybe my mum hadn’t got sick. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Joseph, get up! My mum’s at the clinic till five. We have the house to ourselves!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“My mum will have no other,” repeated the boy. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came camping here once with my mum and dad.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“What do you suppose your mum and Basil are up to, Sam?” asked the young fieldmouse, whose curiosity was aroused. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

HARRY: Just give it a go — come on — this is your chance to go nuts in Honeydukes without your mum knowing—no, Albus, don’t you dare. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“The day I met her, that’s what I call my birthday. The day I met my true mum.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I have to wear a frock belonging to her mum—outmoded and severe, a thing no self-respecting girl of my generation would be caught dead in. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He wears a small version of my mum around his arm. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Two days ago! I seed it too. His mum chucked a rock at him ’cause he tooken some food! Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my mind goes back further still, to a small fire in a friendly hearth and my mum bent over a pot, stirring. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I always thought that was odd, because on the two occasions when I’ve spoken to his mum she sounded so pleased to be talking to me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are plenty of good things I can think of about England: fields of heather blooming in the countryside; London’s busy, exciting streets; the chance to visit my mum’s grave. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“A sword for you too, Sam? Well, I don’t know about that. Your mum and dad might not want you going about armed to the teeth.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I know,” his mum said, her sad smile still there. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“My mum. On her deathbed. Her very last words were about you.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Won’t you come and sit down next to your tired old mum?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to let you know I don’t go anywhere without my mum’s magic seashell because if I do I will die, probably within minutes.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Wish my mum and dad had loved me enough to worry when I left home.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Anyway, what does he know about it, some o’ the best I ever saw were the only ones with magic in ’em in a long line o’ Muggles — look at yer mum! Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Did something bad happen to your mum and dad?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“And took the rubbish out,” his mum said quietly, looking at how neat he’d left the kitchen. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day, Miss Celia works in the flower garden, tending to the mums. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Course, with his mum and dad gone you’d have felt sorry for him, only he kept chucking goat dung at my head. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The stairs creak and groan on the other side of the wall—though Freddie stays mum—and I imagine the two pairs of massive feet tromping up to lead me to my doom. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s what my mum calls them,” Ron muttered, his ears going red. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The teachers in his new year were even worse because they only knew him in terms of his mum and not who he was before. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

"We're birds of a feather, then. I lost my mum when I was small, to the plague. And my da is—" He shrugged. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But his mum was awake, her bed in its sitting-up position. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lily and her mum came to visit on the weekend, too, but he made sure he spent the whole time they were there reading magazines in the gift shop. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Better not let your mum hear you talking about my school,” said Harry coolly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His mum had taken him to his favorite Indian restaurant and let him order as much vindaloo as he wanted. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was just over a year ago that Lily had told a few of her friends about Conor’s mum, even though he hadn’t said she could. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt was the first person I opened my heart to after it was closed up tight when my mum died. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I told my mum and dad. Oh, and he said—the gyptian man—he said he knew about you.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“My mum never really talked about Am, either, to be fair.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I took out his phone, meaning to call his mum and tell her what I knew. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mum’s mobile had gone off once, not waking her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Me mum, she slapped at me when I touched it. Slapped my head around so horrid hard I thought my neck would crack. It’s how I learnt about the oleander.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ask them about their mum,” Corporal Mace suggested. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Marcus’s mum had said he was on a day out with the scouts. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘No, no. My mother said it is a rising eye. But I was to keep whist and mum about it—unless even God has turned away His face. And Cilia ... you promised.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They mean it in Jest, but I told them still to mum up or we shall all Beat them silly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"My mum's not very crazy about mice," Bruno said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say, The only thing we stole was your eyebrow, but I kept mum as I swung myself feetfirst out the window. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Father said, “We all make mistakes, Christopher. You, me, your mum, everyone. And sometimes they’re really big mistakes. We’re only human.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad left my mum when I was a kid. I’ve got no proof he was a wizard, though.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As the monster’s hands gently but firmly guided him toward his mum, Conor saw the clock on the wall above her bed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His grandma burst into his mum’s hospital room ahead of him with a terrible question on her face. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s happy where he is, Ma,” his mum said, quickly, giving him another look. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t tell your mum where you got it.. . although she might not be so keen for you to join the Ministry anymore, come to think of it. “ Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just been crying my eyes out over my dead mum, and I’m just off to do a bit more. “No — it was just — you dropped your quill.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Now he made roses and mums and lilies, the repetitive, familiar motion soothing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh! Right! No, I don’t think that’s it. It would upset my mum too much, and my dad probably wouldn’t like it, either. Maybe Paddington!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She looked at Mrs. Potato Head, who was keeping mum on the subject. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” said Scarlett, “I was thinking that my mum is going to kill me. I got the wrong bus and I am already so late home...” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They be planning to turn you out, now your mum be dead. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He survived kindergarten by keeping mum, but in first grade, when he blurted out “Brutte bastarde!” at another kid, his teachers caught on. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I came because your mum asked me to.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Got away . . . my wand . . . did something funny. I saw my mum and dad . . . they came out of his wand. “In here, Harry ... in here, and sit down. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t let your mum and dad hear, or I’ll have the priest and constable after me both.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“So Kvothe knew the fellow had the hunger something fierce, and that meant he’d stab his own mum for a bent penny.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The nurse left them with her, and his grandma sat down in the chair on the other side of his mum’s bed, leaning forward to pick up one of his mum’s hands. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I got to watch them—you know—for a bit—your mum and dad. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have much of a yard anyway, even though her house was way bigger than Conor and his mum’s. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

His mum’s treatments had carried on longer than they’d originally thought, first a second round and now a third. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The real story is dead boring. I grew up in London with me mum and dad, sister, brother, and a parakeet named Benny Hill.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

"My dad's dead," he said quickly, "and my mum." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There is much talk upon the Road of Boston & its Captivity, for Parliament’s Army hides within — silent — mum — & its Citizens trapped, while without, our Numbers grow. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The next day I told my mum I was off out for the day with the scouts, and she believed me and even gave me some money. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then his mum’s “little talk” had happened, and what came next was simple, really, and sudden. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She’s the older, more sparkly sister, but there’s no happiness in her words when she says, “Your mum is doing her best to take care of herself. Things are hard for her right now.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Miss McDaniels stays mum about how it’s part of my required community service. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Do stop whining, Colin! It doesn’t help matters, and keep your voice down. There may still be rats about. Try to be brave like your mum and dad.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His mum didn’t say anything, just reached out the hand closest to him. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was Dad, there was Kat, there was the mum and her two boys and her baby. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mums went off for coffee, just as we'd planned, and Salim and the two Sparks cousins joined the ticket queue. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well then,” said Harry, keen to discuss his theory, “what about information on Dumbledore? The second page of this letter, for instance. You know this Bathilda my mum mentions, you know who she is?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Conor’s mum was still too tired to cook herself, and though Conor could have made something, it didn’t seem to occur to his grandma that this was even a possibility. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The weekend arrived and was spent at the hospital, though his mum’s new medicine was taking its time to work and meanwhile she had developed an infection in her lungs. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“My mum used to make Yorkshire pudding at Christmastime,” I say. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Cornflower’s parents sat inside the cart, her mum helping Mrs. Churchmouse with the little ones, while her dad chatted away with John Churchmouse as they shared a pipe of old bracken twist. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Me mum hits too,” he added, with a sigh. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I loved my mum and wanted her locket back, so I was acting out of love,” I say. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

For Squelch, who came out of his mum too soon. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

His grandma was on the settee, holding on to his mum, rubbing her back as she threw up into a small bucket they kept nearby just in case. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Lots of people know already. My mum and dad know, and customers...They’ve all been talking about it.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“You know me mum? Can you bring her?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mum. I told her you didn’t expect any presents and — oh, no,” he groaned, “she’s made you a Weasley sweater.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

My mum and dad met your dad on their first Hogwarts Express, you know . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Hanging on the posts at the head of Mitch’s bed are his mum garters from freshman and sophomore year homecoming. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Look at me—I’m a dole bludger. I spend half my days at the betting shop. I still live with my mum and dad. . . .” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He said, ‘It looks like it,’ ” and told her to keep mum. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dean's mum got home from the old folks home on the Malvern road. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The filth and ash that had taken his mum was returning up the cliff face in tendrils of smoke, smoke that he couldn’t help but breathe in. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s one of them horrid telegraph things, mum,” she said, handling it as if she was afraid it would explode and do some damage. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask to please be taken up to heaven with my mum. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“My mum’s going to go spare,” she said. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“I heard Ron’s dad telling his mum. Mr. Weasley works for the Ministry of Magic.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And when his mum's flight had taken off to New York without him, he'd go and live with his dad and his dad would have no choice but to say yes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was also waiting for him every day after school when he left, taking them both straight to the hospital to see his mum. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Not to put you on the spot, but my mom’s been talking about making you a homecoming mum, and I wanted to make sure that wouldn’t be awkward or anything.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Think about what his mum does for him, every single day? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I love it. No one’s ever given me a mum before. Thank you. Really.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"It's the same colour as mum's only much dirtier looking." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alice considered that, and then said, “What about your mum and dad? Why couldn’t they look after her?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It stings. You gather the elder bark, over there. Your mum needs it for your brothers.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

HARRY: Voldemort is going to kill my mum and dad—and there’s nothing I can do to stop him. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Please, I want me mum,” the tyke pleaded. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally some ragamuffin troupe would mum a play on a street corner or I’d hear a fiddler in a pub. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cooking frozen lasagna had tired his mum out so badly she fell asleep five minutes into EastEnders. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“And your mum and dad are in on this plan?” asked Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You come for that, aye? Your mum did, and she was to teach you.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I envied Floyd, having already squared the day with his mum and dad. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t even let him say good-bye to his mum, who she said had had a rough night and needed her rest. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“His mum be yelling at him. I heared her. And she throwed a rock at him too, and he laughed at it and run off!” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry for telling everyone about your mum, read the first line. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

But he makes everybody keep mum about what he finds there on account he wants et tae be this greet surprise at the wedding.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But mate, you’re going to have to come round my mum and dad’s house before we do anything else, even Godric’s Hollow.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“She said she’d write to my mum and dad and I bet she never...” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“You must learn all the plants, all the colors. As your mum did when she was a girl.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his own mum talking, her voice so thick and low it was almost impossible to understand. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wish my mum could know, and I hope she does know, taking a peek down from heaven now and then. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He listened, straining against the silence, but all he could hear was the quiet house around him, the occasional tick from the empty downstairs or a rustle of bedding from his mum’s room next door. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“My mum’s home early. Go and hide in my room!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“My mum and I have been searching all over the flat for this.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Dad was dead chuffed . . . thought I migh’ not be a wizard, see, cos me mum . . . well, anyway. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They hovered in the air for a long moment, over his mum as she tried to scramble back. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Its edges are decorated with tulips in the spring, roses in the summer, and mums in the fall. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He glanced over at the clock his mum had put on his bedside table. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“This is the wand that tortured Neville’s mum and dad, and who knows how many other people? This is the wand that killed Sirius!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His mum didn’t look great, looked even worse after five days in hospital, but she was still hopeful about the new medicine she was being given. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Unless it was in a dream or something. And even if I did, it was obviously for my mum.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He stopped at a Giant Food supermarket and bought her a bunch of cut flowers, carnations and mums. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it wouldn’t work. But you better tell ’em anyway, like your mum says. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

His mum had been really poorly when they’d gotten to the hospital. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Your mum doesn’t read Witch Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?” she asked quietly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Your mum,” she said, looking at him full on. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Just as your mum needs these pieces of wood! Let s drag that big one over here and see if we’re strong enough to break it, shall we?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘If your mum does, you will,’ Dad said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mum saw him relax a bit, and she started rubbing the skin on his arm. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now I say, my dear, in our case, for lady, read——mum! a word to the wise.—I am in a fine flow of spirits, an’t I? Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

His mum was moving to New York and taking him with her. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Employees learned to keep mum on the work front even at the family dinner table. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

People would say, “I watched your show” but then add, “because my mum works with your mum.” How we made The Inbetweeners 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

Ware has had to fend off requests for tickets to Glastonbury, not least from her mum. Glastonbury festival: Jessie Ware's wildest moments 2013-06-29T23:05:17Z

Poor Solo is left running around in a right panic, looking for his mum. The Great Bear Stakeout – TV review 2013-04-25T06:00:00Z

It’s not just pivotal matters of illness, birth and transformation that suggest some stars can, indeed, keep mum in the age of blab. The New Celebrity Power Move: Keeping Secrets 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

From everything I know professionally, parenting concerns go to the top of the list for young mums with incurable illnesses. Who's afraid of the big C? 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z

While hardly Wildean, his response convinces me of his authenticity: "@jayirichardson My mum said you were rubbish in bed and had a tiny winkle." Can Twitter wit replace live comedy? 2010-08-09T11:57:00Z

Moss will play a mum who names her baby after Homer when he helps deliver the child. Radcliffe revisits The Simpsons 2013-08-02T11:48:43Z

“We are fairly mum on the topic. We would obviously never make a prediction for two competitors on each others’ products, but everyone’s data is going into improving the system.” Food for thought: will an era of hyper-personalized meals leave a sour taste? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

The estate hasn’t been settled yet, and Mr. Lagerfeld’s team remains mum on the subject. What Happened to Choupette? 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

The theme of "Cor, underwear!" was so strong I sat in the cinema feeling like a teenage boy furtively perusing the bra section of his mum's Kays catalogue. This sub-porn for ladeez is not my idea of erotica 2010-12-25T23:02:00Z

It's my mum's first ever festival and it's her 50th birthday, so she's going to be celebrating in style. Glastonbury: 11 acts to watch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

I've been brought up in a very realistic, quite leftwing way and there are a lot of things that my mum finds difficult about the pop industry. Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

My sister was barely 18, my stepfather quite unwell and spent his days making and receiving endless unbearable phone calls as the news reverberated around my mum’s sprawling network of friends, family and colleagues. When my mother died, I inherited her best friend – and she became family 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

She told my mum, “He finished first. He won the race.” Experience: I'm nine years old and won an adult 10km race by mistake 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

They met in 1952 in a place called the Coffee Pot, where my mum had a waitressing job. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

"I ended up sitting in my mum and dad's house in a really bad mood all day," he says. Spike Island: 'It's not about the Stone Roses, it's about loving the Stone Roses' 2013-06-04T19:00:01Z

My mum was an artist so I was aware that being a committed artist didn't mean you would earn any money. Rachel Whiteread: a life in art 2013-04-06T08:00:40Z

Honestly, I've come out for a night out with my friend Ida - we're new mums - I have literally come for a night out. Success for Argo at Golden Globes 2013-01-14T08:56:10Z

If people didn't recognise my father in a restaurant, my mum would sidle up and say: "This is Harryboy, creator of Sooty!" How we made The Sooty Show 2012-08-06T16:52:55Z

At Christmas I’ll chip in a few hundred towards a sofa, because my mum needs one. How I learned to make peace with supporting my parents financially 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

I'm not sure if it's particular to our part of north Yorkshire, or just to my family, but we have always eaten my mum's Yorkshire puddings as a starter. Family life 2013-01-05T00:06:02Z

She was fresh out of secretarial college; he worked for the Post Office in Aldershot, Hampshire, with my mum’s dad. Why didn’t I contact my father before it was too late? 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

“My father was completely distraught. My mum was 34 when she was diagnosed. I was exactly the same age. She died two years later.” ‘I was not willing to die for my breasts': the young women opting for mastectomies 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

I left her mum five years ago, and moved into a flat close by. My relationship with my daughter is now as bad as with my ex | Dear Mariella 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

My mum was by my side and said, “Darling, you’ve had a stroke.” Experience: I had a stroke while I was pregnant 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

And Asif's mum who won't be pleased about the direction in which her son's life is going – not just away from traditional Muslim family values, but maybe away from Glasgow too. Jamie's Comfort Food review – what does a dinner party have to do with comfort? 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

If he did give us some pocket money when we met, I’d just spend it on something for my mum. Why didn’t I contact my father before it was too late? 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

His mum, Betty French, had been an arts reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

Her “bio mum” reportedly gave birth to her in a psychiatric ward, then disappeared. Books Of the Times: ‘The Panopticon,’ a Debut Novel by Jenni Fagan 2013-07-15T21:25:07Z

Of course this makes his ghastly mum happy, as she trawls through the sales figures to find even the slightest evidence that her darling son isn't as popular as he once was. TV highlights: 08/07/2011 2011-07-07T20:59:01Z

She's grieving, and is angry that her mum seems to want to replace her father by adopting another child. New teen book club: How to Save a Life 2012-09-28T07:00:00Z

Harry's dad is always busy working, and his mum is a bit annoying, always calling him babyish names. Harry Hammer: Shark Star by Davy Ocean – review 2013-06-30T14:00:00Z

I was a mixed-race child brought up by a white mum – obviously it didn't impact very negatively on me, but it did bother me that people never thought she was my mum. Oona King: 'I couldn't resist Dancing On Ice' 2013-01-04T22:00:02Z

My mum was always pushing me because I struggled to read and write – it was never a natural process. Nicholas Parsons: My family values 2013-01-05T00:05:26Z

It hinges on a devastating, poignant view of a sensitive prince, modeled on a young Prince Charles, and his strained relationship with his ice-cold mum. Review | A ‘Swan Lake’ with echoes of ‘The Crown’ at the Kennedy Center 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Jimmy Turner, senior director of gardens at the Dallas Arboretum in Texas, knows mums. Guide to Mums 2010-09-17T16:13:00Z

My mum, Kathleen, was raised in Ireland, but you never heard her Irish accent – except when she was on the phone to someone in Ireland. Steve Coogan: my family values 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

But it’s kind of humiliating to be in a serious adult relationship where your mum still has to drop you off places and give you an allowance. 'Painful, exhilarating, overrated': 16-year-olds on being in love 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

“I think that’s why I have to put my objects out, because my mum is forced to keep them all in cupboards,” Wood says with a laugh. A Designer Who Lives With ‘Pickled’ Balloons and a Jellyfish-Shaped Lamp 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

"I've had your mum!" or "Sorry girls, I only date models". 40 Glastonbury sights you wouldn't have seen 40 years ago 2010-06-27T20:30:00Z

“I’m publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer — and mum.” Canned foods helped her through poverty. Now Britain’s ‘Tin Can Cook’ inspires others with her budget recipes. 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

And my mum, bless her, who just died two years ago, she was very happy. How Mrs. Hughes served ‘Downton’ a nip of Scotch 2013-12-24T21:40:44Z

I realised I was drawing mums like they used to be, so I gave her jeans and trainers to make her trendier. How we made: Horrid Henry 2013-06-17T18:00:00Z

My mum has been a rock throughout this process, helped by the fact that my own approach to transition has tended to be slow and steady. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Even after “Natural Blonde” came out, Ms. Smith kept relatively mum. Liz Smith’s Complicated Relationship With the Closet 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

We are always doing our own tasks and since the string that held us together, my mum, is no more, my dad is unable to do his parenting. Mum has died, dad is weak… our family is falling apart 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

And while there is no appropriate age to watch their mum in a sex scene involving tampons and feather dusters, Davis’s comedy is filled with life’s universal horrors. Julia Davis: 'I'm worried there's going to be a backlash' 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

"Heartbroken for you @Louis_Tomlinson. Your mum Jay was an incredible person." Mother of One Direction singer Tomlinson dies from cancer 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

If my aunty was angry with me, invariably my mum would become angry too and vice versa. ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

It starts in familiar territory, with tales of Henry's taciturn dad, no-nonsense mum, and of a world in which Jamaica and Dudley were separated only by the Henrys' front door. Lenny Henry ? review 2011-02-21T21:45:00Z

Then like in all the interesting parts of our lives, tragedy struck and my mum died. Dawn French: 'I decided I'd pretend to be someone very confident' 2013-06-15T23:05:05Z

Towards the end, the only regret many of the kids had was that they didn’t get to spend more time “with mum and dad and my big brother”. What terminally ill children taught this doctor about how to live 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Whenever I see marzipan it takes me back to evenings eating with mum, while watching EastEnders. Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking' 2013-02-16T23:00:00Z

A hairdresser rewrites an unsigned billet doux to cheer up her dumped mum. This week's new films 2011-08-12T23:07:30Z

Our embalmer actually embalmed his own mum, as well as Princess Diana. Another view on Teen Undertaker 2010-08-22T21:15:00Z

Visiting West Clare in Ireland with my mum a few weeks ago was weird because my first night back in three years was marred by some low-key racism in a pub. Shedding my whiteness is a work in progress 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

Even before this, I told my mum, joking: “You guys seem to like each other.” My mum and maths tutor are flirting, right under my nose | Mariella Frostrup 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

"At the time I pretended it was a hard decision so my mum and dad felt like I was considering other options," she says. Rae Morris: The pop star who wanted to be a waitress 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

When we got back after the Christmas break, all the mums at school were asking each other: “Did you Marie Kondo?” Did Marie Kondo fans keep their houses tidy all year? ‘We’ve got rid of 20% of our stuff’ 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

She mentioned it often; my mum and dad discussed photography a lot. Snap happy 2013-05-19T18:30:00Z

There’s a scene where the mum is icing a birthday cake for her son’s 16th birthday. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

While the other boys would go quiet – a mum is enough to silence most teenage boys, Daynes would say, ‘Hey, Mum!’ and start some banter. I couldn’t save my child from being killed by an online predator 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

I was allowed a plus one, so I took my mum. Russell Brand: what I made of Morning Joe and Question Time 2013-06-28T19:06:09Z

The 23-year-old had been sleeping on the streets in Manchester after his mum had lost her council house. 'It's worse than heroin': how spice is ravaging homeless communities 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

My home-loving mother pursed her lips at the bright blond hair and confident up-slick of black eyeliner sported by a friend's mum who was into amateur theatricals. Glamour versus feminism? Just look at the images in the media we all adore 2010-03-21T00:07:00Z

Dad said, “Actually, I don’t,” and my mum replied, “Well, you do now.” 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

We sat in silence for a while after radio station signals faded away, then my mum remembered she had the soundtrack from Priscilla Queen of the Desert. My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

It looks like his mum just cut it against his will with a kitchen bowl and some garden shears. New band of the day ? No 922: Balam Acab 2010-12-02T16:43:00Z

The 21-year-old grew up fascinated by Disney's romantic soundtracks in a house filled with Stevie Wonder songs and small-time Manchester musicians who were friends with her mum. Singer Ren Harvieu's second chance 2012-05-14T00:52:15Z

It goes without saying that all mobsters all love their mums. Gangster dramas: the cliches fly like a hail of bullets 2011-04-07T13:11:36Z

Emily is a busy working mum, not a victim of civil war. Hollywood Me: like Changing Rooms from La La Land 2013-06-15T05:00:00Z

Our boat sank and my mum, dad, Bill and me were tipped into the sea. Experience: I survived a boating accident that killed my family 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

She doesn't get on with her mum and step dad, and she's being bullied at school. Finding Cherokee Brown by Siobhan Curham - review 2013-05-07T17:00:00Z

One day, she got upset with my mum and she locked her in the bathroom. Family life: My religious grandfather, the Beatles and Gran's Hungarian pancakes 2013-07-06T06:30:10Z

"I learned to cook with my mum Meena; she was undoubtedly my biggest influence," he says. Gymkhana: the best restaurant in Britain? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

I just hoped he wouldn't be put off that my German mum had made me learn the cello. I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson 2010-06-28T21:00:00Z

My mum and I are both very practical; we are real doers and we are both very creative, and any artistic ability I might have comes from her. Gemma Arterton: 'Our house was a bit Ab Fab at times' 2013-05-11T23:05:25Z

Dear Mr Clare, My mum showed me what you wrote and I was not very pleased. Libraries chief apologises to schoolgirl over cuts protest 2011-02-25T12:09:24Z

My mum tried to work out why but I was reluctant to tell her. Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

Her mum, looking on, also earns a mention. Laura Mvula – review 2013-03-05T18:18:30Z

On the way out, my mum said, and it was an almost throwaway remark, "By the way, we don't mind what colour the child is." How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

There will come a time, though, in a few years, when her boys might see all the stuff that their mum has written. Dark star: Julia Davis 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z

I was born in Enoch Powell's constituency, and he really did not like people like my mum and dad. UK soul: the sound of the Union 2011-07-07T19:59:00Z

Pelosi also stayed largely mum when her clothes drew attention in December. She may not acknowledge it, but Nancy Pelosi is a fashion icon 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

I went for three days with my mum and I was going totally insane by the end. Zooey Deschanel 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z

He immediately took on three more mouths to feed, along with my mum. Danny DeVito: I still miss my father 2012-06-15T23:05:18Z

But I know it's been hard for Mum as she had to be a mum and a dad to me. Looking after Les Dawson's legacy 2012-09-28T23:04:02Z

Her dad was a history teacher, her mum an accountant. Anna Kendrick: real girl in la-la land 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

My Mother is a Foreigner But Not to Me, meanwhile, serves as an implicit salute to her Scottish-born mum. Julianne Moore on Maps to the Stars: 'The longer you live the Hollywood lifestyle, the more empty you become' 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

“Here’s to unconventional relationships!” was how Jen’s mum put it in a celebratory toast to our engagement at a party, just when we thought we were doing the most conventional thing in the world. Our gay wedding: ‘Does one of us have to play the groom?’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

I grew up with my mum, Ghillie, and older sister, Yazzie, in the wilds of the Cairngorms, in a remote and sometimes inaccessible home, using cross-country skis to haul food and supplies to the house. Experience: I am 16 and live alone in the wilderness 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

She is, nonetheless, a proper British mum: In crisis, she immediately announces that she's putting the kettle on. 'Nanny McPhee Returns': Emma Thompson is back to work her magic 2010-08-19T22:57:00Z

My mum says she'll love me regardless of who I bring home. One last thing... Miss J Alexander 2010-10-08T23:06:00Z

This led to the latter being sent down and Takalobigashi, abandoned by his mum, left to look after his 13-year-old sister, until the authorities stepped in. New band of the day: Mic Righteous (No 1,445) 2013-02-04T17:09:49Z

Who will emerge from the playground power struggles as the new top mum? The Hive by Gill Hornby – review 2013-05-22T13:01:01Z

How many times will I flinch when everyone in the show says “ma” instead of “mum” in forced, rough, drama-school working-class accents? His Dark Materials: how many more fantasy epics must I watch before I die? 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Is that what she told her mum and dad? Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z

It was all I knew, but it is such a distortion of my own way of thinking because I am obviously not like my mum and dad. Brigitte Nielsen 2011-07-29T23:07:09Z

She was there, at the back, yawning, and she said, “What’s more important, being a mum or your art?” Two Pioneering Artists Discuss Motherhood and Machismo 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

“No one wants me,” seasoned lawyers would tell her, or “I’m just a mum.” Extreme loneliness or the perfect balance? How to work from home and stay healthy 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

“Apparently he was very upset. My mum told me he never sang again after that.” Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

To that end, and because I was flush with cash, I went to the florist and bought the most expensive, insane, elaborate mum of all time. It's not me, it's you: six comedians on their best and worst love stories 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

He only joined six years ago when he stopped talking after his mum died. The Last Wild by Piers Torday - review 2013-03-05T15:00:00Z

When I was a teenager I asked my mum why she hadn’t adopted children. How hard is it to be a chef and a mother with young children? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

One of the stories my mum and aunty like to tell most often about my childhood is the first family holiday I went on exclusively with my parents, age three. ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

"William has always been in our hearts, losing his mum so early as he did," she said. Sealed with 2 kisses 2011-04-30T05:15:58Z

“All of the mums at the school gate are doing some kind of Ironman or extreme boxercise or something.” 'Toddler twins, a demanding job... why not take on an Ironman?' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

Her mum was a sea captain's daughter, and her dad was the exotic stranger who stole her heart. Nadine Shah (No 1,366) 2012-10-05T08:00:06Z

At a young age, her mum introduced her to Saturday Night Live. Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z

I was 18 when I moved, and I didn't tell my mum and dad. Portrait of the artist: John Gordon Sinclair, actor 2011-01-31T22:30:00Z

My mum cried, but said she was just worried about me "having a harder life". Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

I see friends who have stay-at-home mums and they are still lonely. Teenagers on loneliness: ‘We want to talk to our parents. We need their guidance’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

After the concert Oran and his mum were outside hoping to see the singer leaving the stadium. Lady Gaga meets her little monster 2012-09-21T09:23:25Z

Your mum brought you up on her own in Hackney and you're very close – is she going to be watching you when you play the Big Chill today? Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

She said: "My brother and I were born with cancer of the retina. "My mum told us that only special people get cancer. Aherne: Humour helps deal with cancer 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

My mum takes her troubles into the garden and digs them away. Miranda Hart: this much I know 2012-12-22T17:00:01Z

At 11am on a Friday morning, Studio City in Los Angeles is full of mums. Annette Bening: ‘Women don’t have to do everything’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

His mum made little pastries to host us all for a meal and he said: 'Sweets for the sweet.' A Minute With: Vanessa Redgrave and "Letters to Juliet" 2010-05-13T12:50:00Z

Throughout the trip, I kept asking mum “What’s on your bucket list?” and she only ever gave me the same answer: “To see my grandchildren.” My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

My mum constantly nags me to pull my trousers up because my pants are showing. B.o.B: 'I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop' 2012-11-08T14:49:00Z

But if it's true to the letter, that means Sayle's mum and dad were cheerleaders for murderous oppression. Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z

I will always be thankful to my mum for giving me that way of seeing, for stopping me from seeing myself as somebody who was rejected. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

To get into the main chamber we had to show our invitation to the commissionaire and my mum got into a panic because she thought she'd forgotten it. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

I first watched Gilmore Girls around the same time I first saw my mum cry. 'It's sunny and safe': why Gilmore Girls is perfect comfort TV 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

“Even my mum doesn’t believe that I do work hard.” A Few Words With Kate Moss, Fashion’s Garbo 2012-11-05T18:07:07Z

But, upon exploring the UK Disney Store’s website with her mum, Rebecca, she was devastated to see that the outfit was listed as a “boys’ costume”. Darth Vader is for girls too: the young fan who forced Disney to change toy labels 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Paul's mum, Ann, cared for him while he was ill, but he stayed for two weeks in a home to give her a break, around Christmas 2008. Paul Weller: National treasure 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

His mum and dad are aspirational, moving up the social ladder just as Thatcher wanted the working classes to do. How I Killed Margaret Thatcher by Anthony Cartwright – review 2012-08-07T11:25:01Z

It’s funny that my father is the better-known actor, because my mum was the one who pushed him to act in the first place. 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

I splurge a lot of personal stuff on that, so I’m hoping my mum doesn’t listen to it. Vicky Jones: 'Fleabag felt like a tipping point for feminism' 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

“You can’t be a great mum and keep working all the time,” she said in an interview with the Daily Mail published Saturday. Emma Thompson Thinks Moms Should Take a Year Off From Work 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

My mum left Romania with her parents in 1970 to escape communism, but stayed friends with Ani. Family life: Sunday visits, Ella Fitzgerald and chocolate salami cake 2013-04-20T06:15:02Z

Still only 25, she has been performing and recording for at least a decade, having first been one half of a folk duo with her mum called Generations. New band of the day ? No 1,072: Skylar Grey 2011-07-28T16:05:26Z

None the wiser, my mum said yes, and was seven months pregnant, in London, in love, when she learned that her lover was two women's husband and promptly went into labour. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

My mum told me shortly before she died that her parents couldn't decide whether to flee to England or France. Family life 2013-03-02T07:15:01Z

He’s Hispanic, good-natured and often hilarious, even when he’s informing Ant-Man that his mum died and his dad got deported. Ant-Man’s Agent Woo: do superhero films have a sidekick race problem? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

That summer, Fri’s mum was so worried that she took Fri and the kids to the Lake District for a holiday. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

On one occasion, when he almost destroyed it, Bob recalled getting a severe telling-off from his mum, who "stood it up again, bandaged it up and it took off again." Hidden women of history: How "Lady" Williams founded a great Australian apple 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Colman thanked her husband, her first drama teacher and her "mum and dad for babysitting". Bafta TV awards: Olivia Colman wins twice on otherwise unpredictable night 2013-05-12T21:51:37Z

“You look healthy and toned well done! For any mum who is at six months and not like this, you too are doing well and are an inspiration,” another wrote, complimenting all moms. Instagram influencer praised after transforming postpartum body with keto diet: 'Just wow!' 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

“My mum is a very hardworking woman who nearly killed herself to pay for my education,” she says. 'We are offering something people didn’t get before': inside gal-dem 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

There's something going on, with the mums and the boys. TV review: My Child's Big Fat Birthday 2010-07-20T06:59:00Z

With his mum, because, as we learned last time, she goes along on his dates with him. The Landscape Man and The Autistic Me: One Year On 2010-04-22T23:05:00Z

The show is about a young mum who, “tired and uninspired by her life”, walks away from her kids. Fleabag’s Vicky Jones: ‘Porn was the thing that kept coming up ’ 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

His dad left his mum when he was 10 months old, and she brought him up with her doting parents' help. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never 2011-02-17T22:48:00Z

I showed him to the toilet and went back in to hurry my mum up. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

“I got my mum to tailor them,” he said, gesturing at the jeans. Jimothy’s Flex Looks a Little Different 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

People in the background couldn’t resist giggling, and one playfully asked: “Is your mum remarrying Frank today? Is she redoing her vows?” Woman says mom wore bridal gown to her wedding, shares clip on TikTok 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

My managers have always been very honest with me and put me in my place, just like my mum would. BBC Sound of 2014: Ella Eyre 2014-01-09T08:07:16Z

“I hate the whole ‘I was born to be a mum’ and ‘I was put on the planet to be a mum’ and ‘children are a gift’ thing,” says Cordal. Growing up fast: why parenting in your 20s is the new punk 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

My mum always tells me to be proud and well turned out. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

His mum, who he adored, died; dad took up with the cleaner, who Nigel didn't adore at all. TV review: Toast and Christmas Shooting Stars 2010-12-31T08:00:05Z

Mark and I fought – my mum said I would jump on him unmercifully, as older brothers are wont to do. John McEnroe: ‘Mum only came to my tennis matches if she thought I was going to lose’ 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

She paused, and said in her gentle mum sort of way. ‘Where do you think you’re going?’ Coronavirus is making millennials fearful for our parents 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

I could hear my mum saying 'smile' and there was another flash but I didn't look at her. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

Or darker times, such as when my mum died and you genuinely couldn’t understand the depths of grief to which I was dragged. A letter to … my husband, who has a mind all of his own 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

Given the amount of work and time my mum devoted to my sister, it left me a lot of time to play on my own. Alex Kingston: 'Lady Macbeth freaked me out' 2013-06-19T18:30:05Z

My last bag went to two teenage boys; I hope their mum was pleased. ‘I bought 16kg of flour by mistake’: online shopping mishaps in lockdown 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Norbert Lightowler had torn my blazer trying to get ahead of me in the dinner queue and even though my mum had mended it, it was still a bit scruffy. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

Here was a character who got off on doing well in school and hanging out with her mum. 'It's sunny and safe': why Gilmore Girls is perfect comfort TV 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

When my mum called to tell me he had died, there were no tears from either of us. Why didn’t I contact my father before it was too late? 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Though the streaming site is notoriously mum about ratings, estimates suggest 1.5 to 2.7 million people watched “at least one episode the day after its release.” You really can’t peel yourself away from “Making a Murderer”: The twisted psychology behind your binge-watching 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

My husband is, unsurprisingly, mum about this when we talk to our friends about how school is going. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: But he brags at a postdoc level 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

Sometimes it's only done in fibre-tip pen or poster paint and the kid'll say 'Sorry it's not done properly, I'm waiting for my mum to embroider it.' Saxon: 'Metal fans are the most loyal in the world' – a classic feature from the vaults 2013-01-16T12:54:39Z

I always love my time at the gallery and so do my mum and brother. Family-friendly museums for half-term 2011-02-15T14:18:00Z

Issues of class figure into her judgments; but the movie feels oddly mum about race. ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ Review: Pleasure Principles 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

On the morning that Dad died, my mum, my sisters and I were there with him, along with the saintly carer, Cathy, who had looked after my parents through their darkest times. How Alzheimer’s took my brilliant dad, Lord Goodhart, in increments 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

“In a way for me,” she added, “it’s honoring my mum, who left Jamaica in the ’50s to come to England to forge a new way for us in a society that didn’t want them. For Sharon D Clarke, a ‘Big Sing’ and a Big Broadway Moment 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

I told him that I grew up with my mum and dad in Scotland. How a Mancunian taxi driver taught me the true meaning of friendship 2010-12-26T00:05:09Z

At the end, all you're left with is the sudden urge to sidle away and get a lift home with someone else's mum and dad. This week's new singles 2011-08-19T23:08:37Z

My mum was just on a show called Long Lost Family. Sara Pascoe's favourite TV: The Voice, Sherlock, Arrested Development 2013-07-29T11:00:00Z

Jozan remained mum all his life about Zelda, so Taylor’s account must rely on well-worn biographical sources and Zelda’s fictionalized descriptions in “Save Me the Waltz” and her unpublished novel, “Caesar’s Things.” Review | Did an extramarital affair inspire ‘The Great Gatsby’? One book tries to make the case. 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

I'd go upstairs to my bedroom while she and my mum would go into the kitchen. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

Smithereens is a gripping modern-day hostage drama, albeit one with a moral that’s basically your mum telling you off at the dinner table. Out of tune: why Miley Cyrus' Black Mirror episode hits the wrong note 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z

So I associate this song with having to leave my dad and go back to my mum's – it was always a sad time. Kevin Parker: soundtrack of my life 2013-04-27T23:04:04Z

I've got two big sisters and a brother, but it's just me and my mum and sister at home. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

After his dad's death, he was brought up by his mum, Anne, with his older sister, Tracey. Guy Pearce: The Rover returns 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

I visit my mum and Bob in the summer. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Lansbury’s film breakthrough came as the villainous mum in the 1962 political thriller, “The Manchurian Candidate,” earning her a third Academy Award nomination. Angela Lansbury’s road, from ‘Murder, She Wrote’ to Noël Coward 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

I was 21, newly returned to Manchester after a year spent studying at an American university, and I was, as my mum would say, “full of it”: overflowing with excitement and not shutting up. 'It's sunny and safe': why Gilmore Girls is perfect comfort TV 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

I was with my mum and dad when official confirmation came through and it was a complete shock to us. Karen Woo: a tribute by her brother 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

You're up early.""I was thinking about walking over to your parents' house.""Were you?""Your mum could do with the extra pair of hands, couldn't she? Fancy dress by Kate Horsley 2010-12-26T00:05:12Z

Adam's under pressure to bring his girlfriend to a family wedding and mum's excited about Auntie Val's imminent arrival with a new dress. Tonight's TV highlights: Unreported World 2011-03-25T00:04:01Z

My mum and my uncle used to put on events at the Africa Centre. Shingai Shoniwa: 'The Noisettes have always been a rainbow tribe' 2012-08-25T23:08:58Z

She said she was “happier than ever” and that “I’ve achieved a sort of perfect balance. Right now life is good. And being a mum is the best part of it.” Peaches Geldof’s cruel inheritance 2014-05-01T17:58:00Z

His mum, 33, explained, “I think he is quite tired and hungry.” Princess Kate: I Feel the Baby Kicking! 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

The show’s title is “Public Secrets,” but these works are keeping mum. The truth is out there, or is it? Conspiracies and secrets in the art of Abel Alejandre 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Born in Los Angeles to an English mum and an American father, Mr. Garfield was raised from toddlerhood in Surrey, England. Andrew Garfield, Spiritual Ghost in the Hollywood Machine 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Their son Dhani, dad's spitting image, reads George's letters to his mum. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-05T14:20:00Z

“It is so important and prematurity takes it away. Now I do anything I can – the washing, nappy changes, feeds. I am their mum.” ‘I never knew whether I’d take my two premature babies home’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

When I ask how their mums reacted to the film, both crease up. Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

“I grew up asking my mum why people with burns were bad,” Knight says. 'I hid my scars for years ... I thought I was only good for horror movies' 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

When she looked at the mums, she felt she wasn’t dying fast enough. Allegra Goodman: “Apple Cake.” 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

A couple of years after they adopted my brother, my mum had a call from the same woman at the adoption agency. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

“My Boo-Boo provided me with the comfort and security I craved. I wanted it with me, a bit like I wanted my mum with me all the time when I was little,” he says. Still have your childhood teddy? The psychological power of the toys we keep 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Some of the days, I still go over when I was really bad at being a mum and I can share that with everybody. Q&A: Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley on sharing Leda 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

It is not all one-sided: my dad does get to speak for himself, as audio interviews with him and my mum have been woven into the script. Comedian Mark Tomas: why I wrote a show about my dad 2012-08-06T17:35:04Z

“I don’t think Dad bats an eyelid anymore, he usually just asks mum how much money we need for the day,” she said. Mom defends spending over $1G a month at beauty salon with 3 daughters: 'We are fabulous' 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

And the one thing that kind of speaks, to my mind, was I rarely saw my mum because she had so many jobs. Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z

But my life split again when I became a mum. 'I didn't realise he was dying' - losing my fiancé, and then his family 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

“When Jude saw her mum, she said to her, ‘I am upset with you Mama.’ A worthy, necessary Nobel honoring the Arab Spring — and much more 2013-01-11T01:00:00Z

“My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can’t deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.” Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

My mum had a son from her first marriage and lost custody of him so I didn't see much of him growing up. Nick Moran 2013-02-08T13:30:01Z

“My mum would take him to the park for a few hours, so we’d plan it for then.” Sex schedulers: meet the couples who diarise their love lives 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

My mum was a hearth mother, she loved to gather us all around her – Sunday lunches were a big thing. Damian Lewis: ‘We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

It was 1943, the year of his marriage to my mum. Family life: Dad at 21, a bully-boy uncle and fried cornflakes 2013-02-02T07:15:19Z

Years later when I first worked with him I told him this and he remembered meeting me and that my mum had been driving a scooter. The comedians' guide to the Edinburgh festival fringe 2011-07-29T23:04:00Z

"Our mum's kept a scrapbook ever since we started playing music," says Caleb. Broods: New Zealand's next pop export 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

On the rare occasions anything was mentioned, all I ever heard, not surprisingly, was my mum’s side of the story. Why didn’t I contact my father before it was too late? 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

The best piece of advice my mum has ever given me is to be proud of myself and what I am doing. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Now local mums are to hold their own bonny baby contest and there are complaints about "political correctness gone mad". Why does Judy Murray have to take these punches? 2013-07-13T23:06:05Z

“My mum said: ‘I don’t agree with what you’re doing, but I respect you and will support you through it.’” ‘Everyone thought I was mad’: how to make a life-changing decision – and stick to it 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

They sold the Norton and my mum put me on her lap. Tony Parsons' top 10 troubled males in fiction 2010-05-26T12:22:00Z

Destiny's mum thought that it was time that Destiny met her dad. Little Darlings by Jacqueline Wilson - review 2011-08-24T08:00:00Z

I didn’t get my mum’s love as much as I wanted. ‘People just want a bully’ - director Mike Mills on how the US picks its president 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

My mum said she ran for the camera to capture the moment, which reminded her of those television programmes where you see chimps preening each other. Family life 2011-01-15T00:05:55Z

For me – even my mum would back this up – I was always very meticulous with how clean my room was, even if the outside of my flat was a mess. Craig David: 'You know what? I have admiration for beautiful women' 2013-05-09T15:35:29Z

His dad was gone, his mum fell in love with a crackhead, and home life was fairly dysfunctional. Plan B: 'I love directing. But does my art change lives? I don't think it does' 2012-06-07T19:00:08Z

In fact, Maya’s mum calls me her “London mum”. ‘Anyone else would have kicked him out’: celebrity flatmates reveal all 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

“My mum didn’t have an easy life,” she said. How Poly Styrene Broke the Mold 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

So every time I make a yellow-bellied retreat under the guise of work, am I dragging the kids backwards to the grief of their mum’s death? My kids are more important than my career – so to hell with the job 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

“Both healthy, both strong, happy and blessed, as was mum throughout.” Richard Gere’s baby is well and truly blessed – and it’s all thanks to the Dalai Lama 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

So, stay-at-home mums – look kindly upon the sudden influx of men clogging up the Starbucks aisles with their Bugaboos. Joanna Lumley meant well – despite her words on rape 2013-01-27T00:11:19Z

I’m a mum for the rest of my life. Anne Hathaway: ‘Male energy is very different from toxic masculinity’ 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

She comes across as very tough and brutal with her son, but it's all because she would do anything to protect him, which as a mum I totally understand. Kate Dickie: 'I've been angst-ridden all my life' 2010-12-02T23:00:00Z

He was born in Ipswich, an only child with a Nigerian father and a Norwegian mum. Richard Ayoade: Mr Modest 2011-01-15T00:03:59Z

The fun begins when Horrid Henry tries to earn some money by selling dad’'s old tennis racket and mum'’s expensive perfume. Horrid Henry gets rich quick by Francesca Simon - review 2013-01-01T09:00:00Z

“My mum called me and begged me to come over for dinner with this man so she could have an even number of guests,” remembers Mary Moogk. How we met: ‘I was checking out the men in the theatre. He looked lovely’ 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

My dad was in the British judo team when he was younger and my mum's an estate agent. One to watch: Sunday Girl 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z

Then my mum as well, you know, she continues to be the most supportive person in my life. Phoebe Waller-Bridge: ‘I felt strongly there was no such thing as a slut’ 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

It could be that you omitted to mention them, but a 12-year-old boy may not be comfortable talking about this to his mum. He’s 12 and he’s just discovered internet porn 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

Over the next two years, my mum and I watched all seven seasons together. 'It's sunny and safe': why Gilmore Girls is perfect comfort TV 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Cyril was going to ask Sarah's mum to marry him, but he never got round to it. Who Do You Think You Are?; The Cafe – TV review 2013-07-25T06:00:05Z

Emanuel was mum on the specifics today as his administration regroups. Union: Emanuel police department cuts 'a stunt' 2011-08-31T19:09:00Z

The mum and the dad are in there and their faces are missing because the picture has been burned in a fire. Author of latest 007 novel lambasts recent Bond films 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

When Lyndsey Marshal told her mum she was going to be in a play about at the National theatre, she wasn't impressed. Lyndsey Marshal: 'Clint? Such a sweet man' 2011-01-26T21:31:00Z

One recent Sunday morning, my mum and grandma drove me to a 5km race not far from where we live in St Cloud, Minnesota, in the US. Experience: I'm nine years old and won an adult 10km race by mistake 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

I'd press the phone between my shoulder and ear as my mum would walk me through a simple yogurt marinade. Far from home, Dad’s egg curry is the one thing I didn’t know I’d miss 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

And I kept thinking about my mum I’m letting down.” Sergei Polunin, Ballet’s Bad Boy, Has a Change of Heart 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

I'm always calling mum and saying, 'I don't want to go to this party, do I have to go?' The Saturday interview: Pearl and Daisy Lowe 2011-04-01T23:05:38Z

“My mother struggled, working and raising me – and I could be wild,” says Ekin, with no disagreement from her mum, who rearranges trays of food in front of us. ‘Art is my weapon’: meet the Turkish artist taking on Erdoğan 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

It was thanks to my mum that we started having conversations again. 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

KJ is a college dropout who lives with his New Age mum, drinks tea laced with psychedelic mushrooms and has vague aspirations to song-writing. Review 2010-09-20T23:53:00Z

When I wrote Mantelpiece I was pretty fearless because I didn't really expect anyone except my mum to read it. Annabel Pitcher: 'Nobody wants to write about a perfect family' 2011-08-19T10:56:01Z

To tell you the truth, my mum is softer than my dad – my dad is more scary – but I'd still rather be told off by my dad. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

And as Jackie’s own “mum,” Hilary Tones anchors with a rueful awareness of life’s regrets a clipped narrative that seems peculiarly divorced from the decades it traverses. Theater Review: ‘‘Elegy,’’ ‘‘My Mother Said I Never Should’’ and ‘‘The Suicide’’ 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Tales related by my mum and her sisters paint a picture of an emotionally awry, often unpleasant parent. Family life 2012-10-05T23:05:03Z

The chicken recipe is based on the first dish my mum has ever taught me how to cook – the Georgian poussin tabaka. How hard is it to be a chef and a mother with young children? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

He is now nearly blind, can't walk, can barely talk, can't swallow properly, has diabetes and dementia, and last week my mum, his carer, was told she could add gout to the list. Comedian Mark Tomas: why I wrote a show about my dad 2012-08-06T17:35:04Z

Remember when that French teenager came to stay in your house, nicked your boyfriend/girlfriend, crashed your dad's car and made your mum cry by refusing to eat any of her cooking? Clubs picks of the week 2011-03-19T00:06:36Z

My mum wouldn't pick another baby; she'd become attached to the idea of me in the months of ghost pregnancy. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

I pestered my mum for a bra long before I needed one, because everyone else had one. How to stop being a people pleaser 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

It reminded me that my mum couldn't really afford books, but always wanted me to read. Choppers, Muffin the Mule, The Famous Five … icons of the great British childhood 2012-10-07T18:00:00Z

My mum is an incredibly smart woman, and like every other mother it was just about protecting me and wanting me to be happy and my life to be easy. K.D. Lang Doesn’t Have to Indulge Your Constant Cravings 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

I think I was about 13 or 14 when I was first inducted, courtesy of my mum's battered copy of Polo. Jilly Cooper: Queen of the bonkbuster 2010-08-09T14:22:00Z

What is your earliest memory?I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby. Q&A: Olivia Colman 2013-05-11T07:00:03Z

Haddish’s mum had been in a car wreck that had left her unable to speak, walk or eat. Tiffany Haddish: on Girls Trip, saving the Hollywood comedy and the Dickensian horror of her life story 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why?My mum and dad, because they're both dead and now I see how hard it is to be a grown-up. Q&A: Tamsin Greig 2012-08-03T21:59:08Z

It’s not your responsibility as an adult to be compelled to present a fictional life in order to maintain the status quo with your mum. My mum loves me, but doesn’t really know me | Dear Mariella 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z

I'd been to the continent only once before: to Nigeria, at seven and without my mum, whose painful adolescence in London and Lagos had left her with no love of home. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

The "baggage" of the title is the monster Grendel's mother issues, and the alarmingly intense duets between mum and son are the highlights of the show. Beowulf: A Thousand Years Of Baggage - review 2013-03-12T02:06:03Z

Anna Maxwell Martin stars as Julia, whose overwhelming schedule causes her to rely on a group of other mothers — known as the alpha mums — for help. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Big Bang Theory’ and ‘Safe’ 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

“It’s in the DNA. My mum wasn’t a businesswoman but should have been. A frustrated business person, all 5ft of her.” Ridley Scott on erasing Kevin Spacey from his new film: 'He's a very good actor. It's a pity' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Perhaps because she got thrown so far so fast – from a childhood in Gravesend with a welder dad and a cleaner mum, straight to Hollywood, Arterton is only now starting to take control. Gemma Arterton: ‘It’s easier to conform and shut up’ 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

The truth is that there are countless reasons why people can’t tick one “mum” and one “dad” box. ‘Mum’s day off, is it?’: what adopting as a same-sex couple taught us 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

I remember telling my mum that I felt happy. Pushed to the limit: six birth stories from around the world 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

In fact, I might – my mum has got a brilliant front gate for that sort of thing. Kate Beckinsale: ‘Austen’s Lady Susan is like Emma on steroids’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

She was in her buggy, my mum was pushing her as she had me, in my buggy, on marches in the 1980s. Five things I learned on the Women’s March 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

The shops update their collections all the time and my mum doesn't understand that you have to have the new look. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

My mum smiled too, though I think mostly out of relief. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

After a week of documenting the end of Edie, yesterday I took a photo of my daughter curled under my mum’s arm as she read her a story. How do I explain death of our cat to my two-year-old? | Eva Wiseman 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

My mum gets upset if people think it's her, because it's really not. Queen of uncool 2010-12-02T08:00:00Z

Then one day, Tiffany's life is turned upside-down: her mum is imprisoned for using a stolen car. Shine by Kate Maryon - review 2013-06-04T11:00:00Z

I had a phonecall from my mum who was gushing about how thoughtful and kind I was and how I made her cry. Drunk online shopping: readers’ regrets 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

So, months before my birth mother gave birth to me, my mum knew that she was going to have me. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

Some of them had kept mum for decades. ‘Scout’s Honor’ Review: Uncovering a History of Abuse 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z

Gunnell remembers playing the show to a grand total of three people on the second night: "My mum, his mum, and my girlfriend." O Duo: 'It's not just music. It's visual, too' 2010-09-30T22:25:00Z

Then there was the friend who admitted that her sons tended to be all, “There goes mum, banging on about feminism again, yawn.” A feminist's guide to raising boys 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

She is desperate to be a cool girl despite being branded a freak and a weirdo and her mum is more than willing to help Maya be cool. Secrets, Lies and Locker 62 by Lil Chase - review 2013-04-26T11:00:00Z

As our conversation wrapped up and Machado and Mark eyed their doggy bags of empanadas, they were mum on whether a second season was in the works. In ‘The Horror of Dolores Roach,’ the Empanadas Are to Die For 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

Instead, her mum gives a filtered idea of the response and no doubt Bawden gets the gist of it, facing monster ovations every night. Wouldn't it be loverly? Behind the scenes at My Fair Lady in Sheffield 2013-01-13T00:05:36Z

Not that I wanted to get there quickly – I wished we didn't have to go at all – but I didn't want my mum to get charged too much waiting time. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

My mum slept in my hospital ward, slumped in a chair, as I kept falling in and out of sleep, in a state of drugged wooziness, shooting pain, and persistent nightmares. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

And in the manner of all starlets everywhere, Miss Piggy was not mum about her choice. The Carpetbagger: A Puppet Dog Wants Some Respect 2012-02-10T21:30:43Z

There was one that no one else seemed to talk about except me and my wife, called Motherland, which was about mums. Insiders’ TV: writers and producers share their tips 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

“When I lost my mum 23 years ago, you took me under your wing,” Harry said at a dinner in London for Sentebale, his Africa-based charity supporting youngsters with HIV. Prince Harry: ‘Powerful media’ is why he’s stepping away 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

“But I mean, I say this. Me, my dad, my brother and my mum were still up at 6am drinking champagne,” she laughs. Jodie Comer: 'Mum and Dad took my Bafta on a pub crawl' 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z

Many of the funniest moments in Growing deploy this gift for physical expressivity like the canoe-paddling mime when navigating her mum’s “bush”. Growing: Amy Schumer is the daddy of carnal standup 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z

Within a couple of years I was watching as many productions as I could convince my mum to take me to. Shakespeare and me: Thea Sharrock 2012-06-30T23:05:28Z

“As I got older, I think people thought Joan was my mum,” says Anne. The sisters of Battle Road: ‘We didn’t need anyone else as children, or now’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

When I go out, my mum worries far too much – she wants to know all the details, who is going to be there, exactly where we are going. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

"There have been many times when I've cried myself to sleep," she said of the insulting tweets, Facebook comments, and a death threat against her mum. Cher Lloyd pelted with bottles of urine at V festival 2012-08-20T08:49:24Z

Mike on the other hand was tormented and beaten up by his dad until him and his mum decide to leave home. Tell Me No Lies by Malorie Blackman - review 2013-04-20T17:00:00Z

“My mum, for example, told me she’d like to hear what she’s not supposed to do here. For example, that she can’t park the car anywhere she wants to like in Ukraine,” she said. New radio station helps Ukrainian refugees adapt in Prague 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

I would stay home and be a mum at home. Carla Bruni: Sarkozy and me 2013-06-01T08:00:00Z

I also question whether this would still apply in the case of Kerry Katona's mum, but who knows what floats Bobby's boat. Big Brother's return 2011-08-18T19:25:00Z

"I could never understand why your mum didn't write, and when she finally did, the handwriting didn't look right. I told Harry and Father, that's not Joyce's handwriting, but they said I was imagining things." The secret sister my father kept hidden 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

Drake’s camp is so far staying mum, which is only fueling the fire and creating more excitement. Drake Drops Surprise Album 'If You're Reading This It's Too Late' 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Ten years later, I held her tightly as my mum showed me how to put on a nappy, having first cut a hole out for the tail. How do I explain death of our cat to my two-year-old? | Eva Wiseman 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

He murders his own mum, kills his friends and stalks his pretty neighbour like the worst kind of incel freak. Why Joaquin Phoenix's Joker must be kept isolated from the rest of the Batman films 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Before being handed the trophy Nicole walked the festival's red carpet and talked about juggling award ceremonies with a hectic home life after becoming a mum for the fourth time just five weeks ago. Film festival honour for Kidman 2011-02-07T17:39:07Z

The obvious fall bloomers are the ubiquitous mums.There are so many varieties that it's hard to make a choice. The very best flowers to plant in the fall 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

Beasts of the Southern Wild won the Camera d'Or prize for best first feature at Cannes "That's not supposed to be in my brain, but my mum thinks about that!" she adds. Could Quvenzhane Wallis make Oscar history? 2012-10-18T23:43:45Z

When I was a teenager, my mum sat me down to give me the sex education talk. Portrait of the artist: Sharleen Spiteri, musician 2010-09-20T21:30:00Z

“My boyfriend’s mum would help make them. I didn’t do collections and didn’t really have an email. I would just whip something up.” Hotel Life Without the Hotel 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

A TV future probably beckons, perhaps in sitcoms like The Wrong Mans, in which Dawn French – it's just been announced – is to play James Corden's mum. Should standups write their own jokes, and who are the 50 funniest people? 2013-01-29T14:36:09Z

He still visits regularly, because his mum lives in the south Wales former mining community once described by Dylan Thomas as an "ugly, lovely town". Gary Owen: Bridgend and beyond 2010-04-07T20:45:00Z

In this story Tiffany's life is "perfect" apart from the fact that her mum is a thief: "Her mum steals anything, especially things that shine - just like crows." Reader reviews roundup 2013-06-07T08:46:18Z

Someone and Their Mum is self-explanatory and a fine idea: first guest is Miranda Hart and her mum. Christmas radio highlights 2010-12-24T08:00:03Z

Oddly, I probably saw more of them when I was on the tennis circuit, and my mum impressed upon me to see them as often as I could before they died. John McEnroe: ‘Mum only came to my tennis matches if she thought I was going to lose’ 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

What that schism is, Marvel was mum, but it involves the fragile and frayed relationship between two of the best known X-Men, Cyclops and Wolverine. APNewsBreak: Marvel's Uncanny X-Men ending in Oct. 2011-06-09T07:06:11Z

“I knew we would be bringing you up together,” Pauline says of when she found out my mum was pregnant. ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

“My mum was 10 when Algeria became independent, and she was like, ‘I would never know if he would come back or not.’” In ‘Little Birds,’ Anaïs Nin Erotica Gets a Revolutionary New Context 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

Where early photos depict fresh-faced young men anyone could take home to meet their mums, they now boast tattoos on almost every exposed patch of skin. Bring Me the Horizon – review 2013-04-03T17:45:54Z

Then my mum was really into great songwriters. Snapshot: Paloma Faith Releases ‘Fall to Grace’ in America 2012-11-29T15:22:41Z

So I went back home and interviewed five women who had lived in Stockport all their lives – relatives, old friends, friends of my mum. Simon Stephens: Stockport state of mind 2013-01-23T20:00:01Z

As a single parent, aware of her son’s racial identity, my mum rallied, and founded Mosaic, a support group for mixed-parentage families. My dad said I wasn’t black enough. At last, I know what he meant | Raven Smith 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

It's as clunky as ever, but Anna Chancellor is a steadying influence, and Scarlett Alice Johnson plays the frazzled new mum with aplomb. TV highlights 08/01/2013 2013-01-07T20:00:02Z

My own mum came to see it at the London Film Festival and she took a big sigh. Q&A: Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley on sharing Leda 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

“What haunts me the most is that, as their mum, I wasn’t there for my sons when they needed me the most,” says Claire, 45, who works as a teaching assistant in Penistone, South Yorkshire. ‘He saw our children as possessions': my husband killed our sons 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

Harvey and his cohorts are keeping mum about that right now as they focus on this year's movies, which include Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in the Oscar hopeful My Week With Marilyn. How The King's Speech got an outside edge at the Oscars 2011-03-01T14:41:18Z

Her mum played tennis, her dad played baseball and her maternal grandfather was a quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles. Elle Fanning: ‘It’s a job, but it’s also about dressing up and pretending’ 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Whenever I get told off by my mum, she gives me these really long lectures. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

My mum understood as she had a gay brother and my dad came round. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

In a spotless basement kitchen the differences between good and bad mums are illustrated by such sports as whipping up a quick bolognese for 10, and chopping a finger off while cutting frozen cheese. why its ok to be bad | Eva Wiseman 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Usually mum, dad and I went to Sunset Beach together. Your stories: The Soldier's Story by Butterfly Rainbow 2012-12-22T08:00:00Z

They were both wearing hats – my mum had the royal blue on and Auntie Doreen was wearing the black velvet. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

What is it like to be the mum of a rock star? How to raise a rock star, by Dave Grohl's mum 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

My mum whispered to me I’d be talked about for marrying a Catholic, but I didn’t care. Love across the divide: couples on Brexit, politics and religion 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Another young mum called Lucy abandons her son, Solo – not just for the evening, for ever – because she fancies a shag. The Great Bear Stakeout – TV review 2013-04-25T06:00:00Z

Wolfhard thinks his energy comes from his mother, who was an artist and is now “just a great stay-at-home mum”. Finn Wolfhard: ‘I have so much crazy energy’ 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

My mum sent me to an open audition for Notes On A Scandal, so I could see quite how many other girls wanted to do this. Juno Temple: 'I’ve finally hit puberty on camera. Woo-hoo!' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Mary is a retired teacher who lives in Whitburn, half a mile from Leon's mum, Wendy, and still wears an expression of mild shock when she recounts the story. Susan Boyle: What happened to the dream? 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

He has violent mood swings and an irrational hatred of his mum's lurcher, Spider. TV review: My New Brain 2010-08-26T06:00:00Z

My mum particularly enjoyed the working penny slot machines. Family-friendly museums for half-term 2011-02-15T14:18:00Z

Three young girls and their mum stand next to me, wet-eyed and dumb-founded – and there are many more people like them. The Big Chill 2011-08-07T11:53:31Z

My dad wore all black leather and my mum wore all white. Tony Parsons' top 10 troubled males in fiction 2010-05-26T12:22:00Z

I think my mum quietly thought, 'Oh well, let's just get this one over with and move on to something else.' Polly Morgan's wings of desire 2010-07-17T23:08:00Z

Every mum I’ve spoken to says I’m more likely to regret the time I didn’t spend with her, and I think they’re right. I thought I was career-driven, but I can’t bear to leave my baby | Dear Mariella 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

"My mum sounded very alarmed and distressed and told me to lock the doors." X Factor winner's stalker fined 2012-09-11T17:13:31Z

My dad had been working in Canada for a year and my mum, my seven-year-old brother and I were due to emigrate and join him. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Seeing a mum’s relationship with her child blossom, watching her learn to love and care for it, and seeing that baby thrive in return, makes it all worthwhile,” she says. ‘Only about half the mums who come through my door leave with their baby’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

My mum says what I accomplished was miraculous. Experience: I had a free birth 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

From the age of 10, her mum and dad would drive her the five and a half hours to theatre auditions in New York. Anna Kendrick: real girl in la-la land 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

I’m now doing the same with my mum’s old photographs. Snap happy 2013-05-19T18:30:00Z

My mum had invited Mr and Mrs Carpenter but thank goodness they couldn't come, they'd had to go to a wedding in Doncaster. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

I remember asking my mum when I was 13: "Why are they so much older?" Ricky Gervais: 'I've left behind the veil of irony' 2013-02-02T20:00:01Z

She was a very capable woman, and my mum suspected that she was practically running the hospital by the end. Jocelyn Pook: inspired by mental illness 2012-11-23T22:55:11Z

My mum was working on the garden while Aunty tiled the bathroom and Dad prepared to knock down a supporting wall. ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

There’s an uncomfortable silence before my mum eventually gestures to her sister. ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

“I don’t know why my mum popped out three,” he says. ‘I liked going to New York as a drug trafficker’: Duane Jackson 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

And finally, up the road at Lakeside, where mum Jodean loves her son Anton "more than all the stars in all the skies". TV review: My Child's Big Fat Birthday 2010-07-20T06:59:00Z

Well, he still lives at home and his mum feeds him tandoori chicken while he waits for wife Roxy to give birth. TV highlights 22/07/2013 2013-07-22T06:00:14Z

My mum was a very good cook and without consciously doing so, she taught me a lot about using fresh, quality ingredients. Family life: Dad's adventures, Manchester City FC and Mum's chicken stuffing 2013-06-29T06:15:01Z

My mum asks me: "Have you met any nice boys today?" 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Or is keeping mum about sexual yearning for another person just basic kindness, or tactfulness, or good manners? Monogamy, without the “-ish”: A humble and definitely not cool defense of the closed relationship 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z

But actually my mum was the one saying: “Go for it, do music.” 'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

The only thing that Sunday's results show proved is that Tyler James's mum might be the only woman alive with access to a telephone. The Voice: does anyone really deserve to win the final? 2012-06-01T15:13:17Z

So with my mum passing, suddenly I'm in the front rank, I'm the oldest in the family. Billy Bragg: Barking's Woody Guthrie on 30 years of songs and activism 2013-03-26T17:00:32Z

Whitehouse’s campaign against that particular bum ended with her having to pay libel damages to Potter’s elderly mother, for falsely suggesting that he was dramatising his mum’s lovelife. Flashing the flesh – a history of TV nudity 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

In many ways she was more like a friend than a mum…. Summer Encounters 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

As an author and mum, I've written books and have a daughter, like her. Readers' panel: What we think about Madonna 2012-02-10T15:51:39Z

This was a quick, easy and cost-effective dinner for my busy mum to prepare, which became a regular on the weekly menu. Family life 2013-03-23T07:15:01Z

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, who died on Thursday, remained resolutely mum about her political leanings throughout her time on the throne, as her role in her country’s constitutional monarchy decreed. Queen Elizabeth II and the Shape of 20th-Century Power Dressing 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

I’d always known my mum as an absolute god who worked hard and did what she wanted, and my stepdad treated her like that, too.” Maisie Williams: ‘I was covered in blood and gnawing on pizza’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

Raising exhibition mums doesn’t cost a fortune, but it takes method, time and the simple presence of their grower. The hidden world of exhibition chrysanthemums 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

The Perezhilton.com mogul will also be launching a new website, but he was mum on details about that venture. Perez Hilton announces music countdown radio show 2010-03-23T00:24:00Z

"It's so orange, it's orange orange like oranges," says mum Suzanne, proudly. TV review: My Child's Big Fat Birthday 2010-07-20T06:59:00Z

The end results are unlikely to propel you to the top of the charts, but, to borrow an idea from the King, your creation would still make a nice little present for your mum. Click to download: LaDiDa's portable studio 2010-05-06T21:30:00Z

When Caine arrived in Hollywood, he brought his mum and she marvelled at all that “hysteria growing up the wall.” A Night Out With ... Sir Michael Caine review – relaxed, charming, and faintly bemused all by the fuss 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

His mum, he says, has always had mixed feelings about his career: "Embarrassed, worried, proud." Rufus Sewell: almost famous 2013-03-30T09:00:00Z

There’s that, but on a personal note, I spent my life with a very, very strong mum, working mum, feminist mum, wore the trousers, brought home the bacon. Emilia Clarke Knows Exactly Who Daenerys’ True Love Is on 'Game of Thrones' 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Or are you still there, stuck in a mud-swamp and crying for your mum? Reading and Leeds festival 2011: How was it for you? 2011-08-29T13:00:01Z

But all was not lost: Drummond's mum was in the audience, and when a son needs a helping hand a mum can't refuse, can she? Edinburgh festival: day four at the fringe 2012-08-09T12:33:16Z

Morrison worked in the shop as a teenager before moving to London; he bought Drift in 2003 with his mum and dad, who also work there. Independent record shops: 10 of the best in Britain 2013-03-24T00:06:02Z

When I think about it now, I cry not for what happened to me, for the bruises on my neck and on my thighs, but for my mum, having to hear about it. 'I feel I might die any waking moment': can I escape the grip of PTSD? 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

And since he is a pathologist and not a therapist, you were quite right to keep mum. Sorry, but Those Kids Are Terrible 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

She had a complicated relationship with her father and, tellingly, the film doesn’t give us a Manning family reunion, although Hawkins interviews her Welsh mum, who speaks with difficulty after a stroke. Chelsea Manning director: 'She's a kind of punk rock figure for me' 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Their mum was in a band called Hot Water who sang jingles for a living. New band of the day (Millers Daughter No 1,539) 2013-06-24T14:12:00Z

My mum and my Auntie Doreen do voluntary work for the old folk. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

My late nan must have bought it at some point in the 80s – she gave it to my mum when she moved in with my dad, and they’ve had it ever since. 'I bought this mixer when I was pregnant. My son is now 35': Guardian readers on the appliances that just won’t quit 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Many of the kids had made peace with their fates but wanted to protect mum and dad from additional heartache. What terminally ill children taught this doctor about how to live 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Eventually I saw the finish line and spotted my mum. Experience: I'm nine years old and won an adult 10km race by mistake 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s a familiar dynamic to me – playing people’s mums,” she says. Annette Bening: ‘Women don’t have to do everything’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

When my dad was in jail in Cuba it was very stressful for my mum. Gloria Estefan: My family values 2013-07-12T12:00:01Z

My faith was tested when I lost my mum, but I found small pieces to hold on to. Frank Lampard: ‘I was starstruck when I met Will Ferrell – he’s a closet Chelsea fan’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

I was playing these songs around my mum so I could never be vulgar. Craig David: ‘Bo’ Selecta! was a blessing in disguise’ 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

The song leaked on Saturday, but the artists did their best to keep word mum until Monday morning. Listen: Britney Spears, Iggy Azalea join forces for 'Pretty Girls' 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

The surface of Majella’s experience may be an endless cycle of repeated actions — bring mum tea, re-watch “Dallas,” clean the kitchen — but there are subterranean shifts taking place. Review | Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

Recently, Allen's half-sister Sarah Owens said Allen was "determined to be a mum", and that she and Cooper would begin trying again in 2011. Lily Allen gets engaged 2010-12-29T10:54:17Z

My mum is the one who dares to say the things I wouldn't say as myself. Stephen K Amos: 'I used to joke I'd have to wait for Lenny Henry to die before I could get on TV" 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

I was outside the dentist with my mum and I went up to him to say hello. The comedians' guide to the Edinburgh festival fringe 2011-07-29T23:04:00Z

An Indian mum in New York finds her feet thanks to her multicultural English class. This week's new films 2012-09-28T23:05:52Z

My mum wanted to be near the front so she could get a good photo of me receiving my prize so we sat in the third row. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

My friend and I remain close, but your mum is very antagonistic towards me. A letter to … my son, who doesn’t know that I am probably his father 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

I am so pleased my mum never let me pluck them as a teenager. What I see in the mirror: Paloma Faith 2010-04-23T23:10:00Z

I was sitting in the middle, between my mum and my Auntie Doreen, and I could see the driver looking at me in his mirror. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

I was quite nervous anyway, and I'm thinking, 'thanks a bunch, mum'. Dermot 'never wants to dance again' 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

This week's victims are single mum Sasha and Surbhi, who was left paralysed in one arm after a motorbike crash with her husband. TV highlights 16/01/2013 2013-01-15T20:00:01Z

Jennifer Lawrence has been missing from action for far too long; this is her ball-busting comeback, as a New York mafia mum who becomes an FBI informant. The most exciting movies of 2020 – crime films and thrillers 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

My mum was a photographer – and Laurie is someone who names what she sees in bold language. Antony Hegarty: 'We need more oestrogen-based thinking' 2012-05-19T23:04:35Z

But determined to get better, the mum from Helsinki, Finland, followed the specialist's advice, incorporating meat and eggs - which she once referred to as "miscarriages of chickens" into her diet. Vegan blogger eating meat again, claims diet caused 'early menopause' 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

“Ideally, if you’re my mum and you’ve never smoked cannabis, seeing a photo of a woman your age with a joint might make it seem less intimidating,” says Case. 'I don't think I look like a stoner': the women changing the face of the cannabis industry 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

My sister reluctantly agreed to be tested with me and if it’s negative, I’ll be confronting my mum this weekend,” she says. Who do you think you are? Now you can find out with a do-it-yourself DNA test 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

I often wonder whether or not I'd have been that interested in being adopted if my mum hadn't been so fascinated by it all. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

The mums did most of the talking, perhaps because between them they harbour the most more regrets. Child Of Our Time; Lightfields – TV review 2013-02-28T07:00:12Z

Work, autism, bicycles, The Archers, and Jane’s mum relocating from Manchester to live with her. Blind date: ‘I asked if she’d ever been taken up the Shard before’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

She dedicates the lovely All for You to her mum, who's in the audience, and forgets to change a microphone setting so that when she speaks she sounds like Minnie Mouse. Little Boots – review 2013-05-15T17:21:35Z

Photograph: Jim Wileman My mum is concerned about me wanting to be an animator – what with the credit crunch, she wants me to get a more secure job. Interviews with 18-year-old boys 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

My mum has no understanding of the class system in England and is totally American culturally. Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z

She became wildly angry that her brother had cleared and rented their parents' house, and with it all traces of her boys and Steve, and her mum and dad. The tsunami survivor who lost her whole family 2013-03-09T23:00:01Z

But it's not all macho posturing: the plaintive cries of a young whale abandoned by her mum to fend for herself will break your heart. BBC Proms 2010-07-23T05:44:00Z

Her campaign this summer released a letter from her physician with the results of a recent physical; while attesting to her good health and fitness, it remained mum on the topic of height. Is Hillary Clinton getting taller? Or is the Internet getting dumber? 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

I said to his mum he would be my number one candidate for my next movie. Filmmaker Damien Dematra On Obama's Young Life In Indonesia 2010-07-01T08:05:00Z

She was my mum, I was desperate to see her,” she says. Britain’s child migrants: ‘I was told I was going on a picnic’ 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

Then: “I should turn this down so my mum doesn’t hear.” Why turning on the TV in the bedroom is a big turn off | Eva Wiseman 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

I was in year seven, on my computer, when my mum and dad came to talk to me about it. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Over and over, he was initially mum or monosyllabic, unable to explain his actions and obvious mistakes. Chicago News Cooperative: ?Celebrity Apprentice,? a Primer for Blagojevich and His Prosecutors 2010-04-09T03:30:00Z

I remember walking through the park with my mum one day and saying it was going to be OK. Is perinatal anxiety a bigger problem than postnatal depression? 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

I didn't know how to tell my mum. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

An anonymous mum navigates the first few years after her young daughter comes out as transgender. The 50 best podcasts of 2016 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

“The strangest thing is — I don’t understand this and never will — they keep calling me ‘mum,’” she tells TIME. Cher Lloyd Goes Behind the Scenes of Emotional “Sirens” Video 2014-04-29T17:11:07Z

Well, I come back eight or nine times a year and my mum’s here and my best friends are here. Kate Beckinsale: ‘Austen’s Lady Susan is like Emma on steroids’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Even Caroline Flack's mum thinks you two should be an item. Olly Murs: 'The fastest I've ever driven naked is zero miles per hour' 2012-12-19T12:25:00Z

These are songs that I grew up listening to in the car with my mum. A Minute With: Clay Aiken, from "Idol" and beyond 2010-06-01T06:24:00Z

In a prehistoric age, when my mum was a girl. Season's readings: The Night Before Christmas by Clement C Moore 2010-12-13T15:23:00Z

“My mum’s supportive, always, but as a mother – especially when you’ve left your culture behind, your religion – you’d be worried about what your child pursues,” says Ali. Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

My mum went up to the lady who was timing the race. Experience: I'm nine years old and won an adult 10km race by mistake 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

"I loved my mum madly, but I had a lot of prohibiting, inhibiting things around," Brand has said. Russell Brand: messiah or very naughty boy? 2013-06-15T23:05:40Z

When I was bullied, I talked to my mum and dad, and it got resolved. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

I believe I was closer to you than your mum. A letter to... my estranged adult children 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

Her only friend in the world is mad at her for lying and her mum is raging. Alice in Time by Penelope Bush - review 2013-05-08T14:00:00Z

A man picks up single mum in a bar. Readers recommend: songs about royalty 2010-12-10T00:01:00Z

My mum was gone a great deal, working several jobs. John Goodman: ‘I’ve broken all kinds of laws’ 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

I often went to their house if my mum was going to be late back from work or anything like that but this was the first time I'd gone to stay all night. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

When I graduated, my mum and dad gave me £50. Britain's Next Big Thing 2011-04-12T21:00:00Z

The “home-made”, the “natural”, the “organic”, and the “farm-raised” play on fantasies of our own ecological responsibility in the food we buy, or nostalgia for meals just like your mum probably never made. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

I see lots of my acquaintances who regularly go out with friends, or other mums, and I think, “Why haven’t they invited me?” Ask Alanis Morissette: I have no friends – what’s wrong with me? 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

My mum heard nothing more about this rumour until many years later, when my uncle Andy referred to my dad’s “other son” during a conversation with my aunt Judy; she later told my mother. ‘I gulp back feelings of regret’: how I found my long-lost sibling 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

Crazycats" brings to mind a "down with the kids" mum trying to ingratiate herself with her teenage daughter: "You guys were up until 11.45pm last night? The rise of the Twitter tribes 2011-04-01T23:06:07Z

My mum even knitted us waistcoats to look similar. Family life 2013-06-15T06:15:01Z

It was at Wembley Arena and I went with my best friend and our mums. Six Songs of Me: Kele Okereke 2012-08-14T09:37:00Z

A strings-attached apology is, as my mum would probably say, a rubbish apology. What happened when my flight was invaded by ants 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

To my mum that sounded a lot like socialism. Lenin, mum and me – my communist childhood 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

My mum’s mum had 13 children, so I had lots of cousins to play with. 'Think about the bigger picture': life lessons from Meryl Streep and other successful women 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z

I told my mum about the house a week before because I didn’t want the shock to be too big. John Boyega: ‘I’m very direct. I can’t lie’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

Both my parents, but only my mum has published. John Lucas: 'Two people I knew had been murdered...' - interview 2012-08-14T14:06:02Z

But there was this huge deep middle drawer in the kitchen, once the extension was done, which mum completely stocked with multi-packs of crisps, Maltesers, mini-Mars Bars and Milky Ways each week. Lisa Snowdon: I ate a jacket potato with beans and grated cheese every day for two years 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

My mum hosted an engagement tea for us, and there was a moment when my fiance’s 89-year-old grandfather took my hand and said softly: “You have no idea how happy this day has made me.” When weddings attack: adventures of a modern bride 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Theo's mum is a divorce lawyer, and always represents the wife. Theodore Boone: The Accused by John Grisham - review 2012-07-28T08:00:00Z

Obsessed with the show The Six Million Dollar Man, he had asked his mum for a pair of red-and-white trainers like those worn by the programme's bionic man. Simon Pegg: 'I measure life by my feelings for Star Wars' 2010-10-16T23:05:00Z

It’s thought to be linked to the rise of “mama” as an identifier for strongminded, progressive mothers who reject “mum” as too old-fashioned and suburban. ‘Daddy’ not cool: why hipster dads want their kids to call them ‘Papa’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

I begged my mum to send me to stage school and she was like, “No.” Florence Welch Thrives on Horror. And She Still Wants to Smell You. 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

“I don’t want this job, I don’t want to be here, I don’t want to be doing this. Look what it did to my mum,” the 36-year-old Harry said. Prince Harry thought about quitting royal life in his 20s 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

Her curiosity as to why she rarely met other rock mums at such shows and festivals led to From Cradle to Stage. How to raise a rock star, by Dave Grohl's mum 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

But since she’s just a young mum working for her in-laws, there’s no way she could justify such an extravagance. If Kate Middleton Were a Disney Princess... 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

"My mum was always writing letters to the council about problems, and so I think I owe that to her." Olivia Newton-John: sweetheart, sex idol, rock chick, radio star 2013-03-11T18:01:58Z

Our mum has it too, but hers is more vague. Experience: I taste people’s names 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

My mum and my Auntie Doreen turned towards me with great big grins on their faces. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

The "Star Trek" star was extremely mum about her pregnancy, even when her baby bump overtook her slender frame on many a red carpet. Zoe Saldana confirms twins' arrival, names them Cy Aridio, Bowie Ezio 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

The only thing I’m sure of is that asking either set of children to stay mum on the subject practically guarantees that Santa will become the main event. Social Q’s: Hoping for a Silent Night, and Other Christmas Miracles — Social Q’s 2012-12-20T20:05:37Z

There’s every reason to believe your mum’s account and, controversial though it might seem, the same expectation of veracity is due to your dad. My birth mother’s terrible accusations are tearing me apart | Dear Mariella 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

After Dallas knocked off the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round, Cuban decided to stay mum during Dallas' second round series against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Mavs' Big Winner: Mark Cuban's New Image 2011-06-17T09:15:00Z

“You have to pay the bills when you’re a single mum.” Rosanna Arquette: ‘They said I was a pain in the ass. It’s not true’ 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

I think my mum thought I was being brave because she spoke in the same sort of voice she put on when I had to have an injection at the doctor's. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

Matt's mum does all she can to keep her family going by storing supplies and growing her own vegetables. Children's fiction prize book club: After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross 2013-07-09T13:00:57Z

My mum was an NHS receptionist, and I was at a working-class comprehensive, but my dad was in the movie business. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre 2011-01-31T00:05:02Z

In the 1970s, when I was nearly nine, my mum decided that we should all become vegetarians. Family life 2013-03-23T07:15:01Z

The premise was simple but hilariously effective – an aspiring suburban pop star who still lived at home with his mum, and whose chirpy ambition only served to magnify an innate lack of talent. Chris Sievey obituary 2010-06-22T14:16:00Z

I lost my mum in March, which was a spiritual experience beyond anything I’ve ever had. Boy George Loves His Deeply Flawed Heroes 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

The Dancing Bear by Michael Morpurgo I read this book in about 10 minutes quite recently when my mum bought it for a younger cousin and I wanted a little peek. My top five secret reads 2013-05-08T08:01:00Z

"Don't fiddle with anything," his poor mum says to him in the car. TV review: My New Brain 2010-08-26T06:00:00Z

They have known each other since primary school, their mums were both social workers in south London, and they started going out when they were 18. Glastonbury festival: Jessie Ware's wildest moments 2013-06-29T23:05:17Z

One evening, we were driving home after dropping my mum off for her night shift in a local hospital. 'She'll never realise the impact she had': life-changing conversations 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

Only we knew mum’s idiosyncrasies, her need for Egyptian cotton bedsheets, a clean house, and cappuccinos that she always pronounces “car-pacino”. The power of six: what I've learned from having five siblings 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

“People always assume we can read each other’s minds but most twins are just really, really good friends,” explains my mum. ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

I knew it wasn't my mum because I had spoken to her earlier, and so I thought it must be either Jazz or my dad. Our dad, Joe Strummer, remembered 2012-07-27T23:05:09Z

His mum never smiles at me and conversations are short. My boyfriend’s parents don’t like me. How can I win them over? | Dear Mariella 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z

As she was double-locking the front door my mum started going on about keeping my best suit clean. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

Photograph: Ho/Reuters Instead of her bow, she wears a red crown, firmly establishing this look as "queen mum of cartoon rodents". Minnie Mouse: the queen mum of cartoon rodents 2013-03-25T16:21:16Z

I was 16 when I wrote 7 Days, and I was still living at home in my mum’s house, so it wasn’t like I was living the life. Craig David: ‘Bo’ Selecta! was a blessing in disguise’ 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

A shy, petite, thirtysomething mum dressed in a smart shalwar kameez, she makes an unlikely pop star. Cornershop on their new album, six years in the making 2011-02-17T21:30:00Z

The other day she walked past my house with her mum, so we talked from each end of the driveway. Love in the time of corona: 'This wasn't how I planned it, but she said yes' 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

My mum in 2007 was invited by some Australian friends in London to a fringe theatre play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called The King's Speech. 'I'd like to thank...' 2011-02-28T10:32:48Z

“What are you all looking so sad for?” my mum asked us. My mother was dying – but my best friend brought happiness to a brutally sad day 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

This, you see, is Sarah's big moment, her chance to be "the name on everybody's lips", to vindicate the praise lavished on her by her mum and dad – videoclips of which she shows us. Toby: Lucky 2011-08-16T18:15:02Z

Surprisingly, freezing is associated with better outcomes for babies and their mums than IVF with freshly fertilised eggs. Our twins were born two years apart 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

"We knew at least that our mums and their six friends would watch, so we could garner at least 12 views," adds vocalist Sarah Fullen Gregory. Youtube if you want to... 2011-02-16T02:52:54Z

You get a clap at the beginning and "My mum used to like you!" and then there's nothing to do but roll your sleeves up. Lenny Henry: This Much I Know 2012-10-13T23:06:00Z

"Kids hooked on to it because it was a cartoon rabbit, the drunken populace viewed it as a party record, and mums and dads remembered the old tunes," says Andy. When pop goes bad: novelty records 2010-09-22T20:30:00Z

In the end, it came down to the fact that I didn’t think I’d be a good mum. I’ll never be a grandmother 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Out dress shopping, she stood in the fitting room in her underwear, and her mum remarked, “‘You can see you’ve lost weight.’ ‘I just want to cut it off’: the weight-loss patients who no longer fit their skin 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Would your mum understand that word, phrase or sentence? Gove's golden rules for writing: can you do better? 2013-07-01T14:30:59Z

When we told the boys their mum was going to die, he asked how old people were when they got cancer. ‘There will be an afterwards’: how a mother prepared her sons for her death 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

BBC Asian Network spoke to Naughty Boy at home with mum and dad in Watford and heard the unique story of his rise to the top. VIDEO: At home with Naughty Boy 2013-08-15T23:04:29Z

I used to pepper my conversation with anecdotes about my mum. A letter to … All the mothers lucky enough to have their own mothers 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Oh, my mum didn't half go on sometimes. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

Offer your mum an alternative type of safe haven where she can unburden herself about this proposed step, and help empower her to make her own choices. My father believes the world is ending – and is abusive to my mother | Mariella Frostrup 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

I asked mum what she thought of being bossed around by her own kids on Saturday. ‘Where do you think you’re going?’ Coronavirus is making millennials fearful for our parents 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

"Brady actually worked in the butcher's shop that my mum went to," she says. Myra Hindley: a new chapter 2012-06-19T19:29:01Z

I was left in the waiting room while my mum went to talk to a doctor for about half an hour. Experience: I killed my classmate with a javelin on sports day 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

Both parents were performers of sorts: his mum Jill taught dance while his father Ron came from a carnival family, and mixed public service with gigs as an actor and comedian. Shane Jacobson: 'I feel I’ve got to constantly prove myself' 2013-07-26T04:43:04Z

Not bad for a singer who still lives at home with his mum on a council estate in Nottingham. Jake Bugg: 'I have to pinch myself' 2012-10-15T07:12:17Z

Announcements like this from my radiant mum were the seed from which most of my childhood holidays grew. 'I got so sunburnt, I was like a piece of chorizo': comedians on their holidays from hell 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

The leggings are Urban Outfitters, the T-shirt I got from my mum and the jacket was from RePsycho in Bristol. Glastonbury 2013: best-dressed of the fest – in pictures 2013-07-01T07:00:00Z

My mum did the same thing, so in a sad way it’s quite normal for her. ‘I was not willing to die for my breasts': the young women opting for mastectomies 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

Her mum was involved with the Mobos and her stepfather used to DJ at Ministry of Sound. New band of the day ? Delilah (No 999) 2011-04-06T16:33:55Z

My dad was a plumber, my mum sold cards on the market: why am I making weird theatre in London? Fevered Sleep's old age playmates 2010-09-07T20:59:00Z

“The point of this must be that one can see things through it that would not be available otherwise. Or else I’d just film me talking to my mum.” Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Mia's Granddad has disappeared which means she has to spend a week with her mum comforting her Gran. North of Nowhere by Liz Kessler - Review 2013-05-07T08:00:00Z

The homey houses are for people, like my mum, who were homemakers; those who loved theatre and cinema are in the cultural houses. ‘Eventually I knew she was no longer safe alone’: how do we care for family with dementia? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

It's taken her time to look at me more as a friend and sister because, to her, I'm more of a mum than anything else, but now it's wonderful. Gloria Estefan: My family values 2013-07-12T12:00:01Z

This is a Compton rapper who gets told off by his mum, catches an STD, and vomits from too much drink. Kendrick Lamar: rise of a good kid rapper 2012-12-08T00:01:00Z

Once my mum saw it wasn’t a fad, she borrowed some money from family and friends, and bought me 10 lessons. Experience: I learned to play the piano without a piano 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

My mum rang and said 'the stalker is back and he's in Asda'. X Factor winner's stalker fined 2012-09-11T17:13:31Z

“My mum, on the other hand … I kept on asking her ‘are you sure you’re ok with watching this scene?’ American Gods' Yetide Badaki: 'Why can't a black woman be a love goddess?' 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

Of all the lessons motherhood has taught me, the most salient comes from my own mum: "It's always better to say 'Here it is' than 'Where is it?'" My number one parenting trick? Always save those two last bites 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

They helped me find my mum when I got lost at a vintage steam engine rally. The awkward years 2011-08-12T22:01:37Z

“My mum didn’t tolerate illness,” she recalls of her childhood, the first five years of which were spent in Australia. The secrets of people who never get sick 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. Jane Goodall: 50 years working with chimps 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

His life gets steadily worse when he moves into a new apartment block as his dad loses his job and his mum has to work longer shifts. Bullying tale wins children's prize 2013-10-24T11:17:56Z

I don’t want to end up a divorced single mum. I don’t want to have sex with my husband any more 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

"I'd pretend to be a waitress and get my mum to order something," she laughs. Rae Morris: The pop star who wanted to be a waitress 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

No wonder, perhaps, that the internal affairs guys think Lund has gone mad; no wonder her son, mum and boyfriend think they've lost her to her obsession with solving the case. The Killing: in cold blood 2011-03-31T07:00:00Z

“My mum was the early influencer in terms of food. We got taught not just to respect food, but not waste it. She always said eat with your belly, not your eyes.” Gordon Ramsay’s social media project culminates in cookbook 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

The mum show has been a rite of autumn for generations – the sort of small-town subject that would have appealed to Norman Rockwell – but how much longer it can survive is an open question. US flower growers fear bloom is off the hobby 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Your mum, dad, big brother and nephew are with us now, as is a doctor, who will examine your body to see when – and why – you died. The day I found my partner dead: ‘I touch your neck. It’s cold’ 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

I bring the audience into a surreal world, where I also play my mum, who's a recurring character, and we have guests and a great team of comics who also appear. Stephen K Amos: 'I used to joke I'd have to wait for Lenny Henry to die before I could get on TV" 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z

My mum loves you because you were in Four Weddings And A Funeral. One last thing... John Hannah 2011-02-05T00:05:32Z

One day at a playgroup I mentioned how amazing I found birth and the other mums dismissed me, saying it was because I was young. Pushed to the limit: six birth stories from around the world 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

Watch Super 8 home movies and you'll see mum and the kids, but not dad. Super 8 - review 2011-08-04T13:00:02Z

My mum, consoling me with a chocolate sundae as waiters nicknamed Cathy “Miss United Kingdom”: “Just be patient, love. In a few years, you’ll be fighting them off.” Operation smile: how jaw surgery changed my life 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

If that’s any part of your motivation to stay mum, then please reconsider. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to explain belt-tightening while maintaining your privacy 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

But it was Jack himself who inadvertently helped his mum carry on. ‘He saw our children as possessions': my husband killed our sons 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

My mum checks in on me when I'm with my friends, but it's only five seconds, and then she feels comfortable. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

There is for me, although my mum's more talking and preparing the sandwiches. Darren and Susan Pritchard: 'Working together has been a life-changing experience' 2010-05-08T23:08:00Z

While in high school, her mum wouldn’t allow her to work, but once she graduated and enrolled in Chicago’s Columbia College, she found ways to burrow closer to the film and television industry. Master of None's Lena Waithe: 'If you come from a poor background, TV becomes what you dream about' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

At some point, the tables turned and Breck must have thought, oh my God, my mum was right – and it would have been too late. I couldn’t save my child from being killed by an online predator 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

I strive for forgiveness and understanding in that area of my life, for the difficult times he put my mum and me through. 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

"Yeah, my mum," says Angelique, quick as you like. TV review: Jamie's Dream School 2011-03-02T22:14:01Z

I said, ‘It’s nothing personal. I just wanted to see my mum.’ 'You start getting bitter': what I learned from 43 years in prison 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

She introduced them to her nurse, who praised their mum and told them how proud Karen was of them. How do you tell your children you have cancer? 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

When my mum went to watch it, she was distraught. Sara Pascoe's favourite TV: The Voice, Sherlock, Arrested Development 2013-07-29T11:00:00Z

“She literally was the mum of the whole thing,” Clarke said. ‘Game of Thrones’: Meet the Woman Who Is the ‘Best Thing That Ever Happened to the Show’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

There are just so many great scenes: the Sumatran rat-monkey, the snobby mum eating her own ear, the hero cutting through all the zombies with the lawnmower. Zombies? Mogwai know the score 2013-02-18T06:00:00Z

Disney is staying mum on plot details and casting, though there’s no harm in praying that some—if not all—of the original stars will return. Disney Is Planning a 'Sister Act' Remake 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

“They made a great effort to strike a balance between time for us and time for their work, and I really appreciate, now, the example that my mum in particular set.” Zoe Kazan: ‘There’s so much sexual harassment on set' 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

The first is no disaster – its clutch of awards and the fact that my mum likes it is incontrovertible evidence of that. From Breaking Bad to Blackadder: the great TV shows with patchy first seasons 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

While the pasta was slightly al dente for Dad, the sauce, was – as always – relished, with mum asking for the recipe. Rachel Roddy’s Italian sausage with tomato and pepper sauce recipe | A Kitchen in Rome 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z

The public got to believe it too in January when, after staying mum for longer than the typical 12 weeks into her pregnancy, Stefani finally confirmed the news. Gwen Stefani debuts 6-month-old son Apollo at tennis' U.S. Open 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

If he didn’t call, and he was late, I would watch my mum’s nerves slowly shred. Authors Steve Cavanagh and Adrian McKinty: How growing up in Northern Ireland's Troubles shaped them 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

When my mum and I left home 45 years ago, I was 11. When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

"He's a hippy at heart, it's just that his mum keeps him in line," he said. Prince Charles goes to Glastonbury 2010-06-24T19:02:00Z

Set in a decadent pre-revolutionary France, it exposes the gap between rich and poor in its portrait of designer-obsessed ugly sisters and their mum, all of whom torment little Cinders with grotesque results. This week's new dance 2010-12-11T00:07:00Z

“When I was in high school my friend Pete’s mum belonged to this divorced people’s club that rented a house in Vermont every winter,” I tell them. Tim Dowling: I’m away, so my wife has time to decide whether to leave me 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

My mum starting seeing his dad a while ago and we used to hang out all day, then he would sleep in the same bed as me. I share a bed with my stepbrother and now we are falling in love 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

The trailer quickly became a communal classroom obsession, the line “wanton sex goddess with a very bad man between her thighs – mum, hi!” quickly deposing childish Simpsons catchphrases, because pre-teen girls are ardent perverts. My favourite film aged 12: Bridget Jones's Diary 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

My mum and I had a girly pampering night and it was great: we talked about everything. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

My mum was the toughest of the lot, who is still alive, of us. Eamonn Holmes 2013-06-21T12:00:02Z

I asked my mum, “Why don’t they just fly to the top?” Why You Shouldn't Do Your Child's Homework 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

After the lights came up, Robert Plant immediately said, “So Cameron, is your mum really like that?” ‘Almost Famous’: The Oral History of a Golden God’s Acid Trip 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

I let them say what they wanted, with my dad saying it was disgusting and my mum saying it was against Islam, because I wanted them to get it off their chests. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z

Smith Jr is promoting the remake of The Karate Kid; he stars, mum and dad are producers. Act your age: the new wave of high-powered child stars 2010-07-22T20:59:00Z

“My dad was the opposite to how he was portrayed in the film. He was just as supportive as my mum, but for the film it was better that my dad was against me.” Eddie the Eagle: ‘I was probably closer to the ostrich’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

As the blockade continued patriotic mums became "moms" and farmers exchanged their ploughs for plows while ukulele players took up the banjo. Need Some Kind of Explanation? 2012-05-30T12:26:46Z

However, I often borrow poetry books off my mum, and when I was younger, my grandma and grandad bought me a poetry anthology that first sparked my interest in poetry. How the internet is kickstarting a teen poetry revolution 2013-02-20T10:41:47Z

They’re so thrilled to see their mum operate a console, I almost want to enjoy it. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

In her last piece, under the headline "Being a mum is the best thing in my life", she wrote she was "happier than ever". Peaches Geldof's death was drugs-related, coroner rules 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

“I was eating a Subway. Chicken teriyaki. Eating that and my mum just took the picture and posted it on Facebook,” one pupil says. ‘I was so embarrassed I cried’: do parents share too much online? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

I then phoned Christine’s dad to ask permission – I ended up speaking to her mum but she insisted he’d be happy – and all went to plan. Frank Lampard: ‘I was starstruck when I met Will Ferrell – he’s a closet Chelsea fan’ 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

Once, when I was struggling, my mum told me a phrase she'd read: "Love the flower in winter when it says nothing." Portrait of the artist: Abi Morgan, writer 2012-06-05T18:59:01Z

We didn't have many guests, just my sisters and Fred's mum, who had made a fruitcake. The secrets of long-term love 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

Alice, 12, has been home schooling in central London since 16 March, with her brother Ben, 15, her mum, a master’s student, and her father, an auctioneer. 'What I got wrong was trying to be a teacher': how to last the distance at home schooling 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z

Turner says she just got the season 7 script, but stayed mum about her character’s next move. How Sophie Turner Wants Sansa to Die on Game of Thrones 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

He couldn’t remember and had to ask his mum. Growing up in the Wild Wild Country cult: ‘You heard people having sex all the time, like baboons’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

But the note was about his mum, who had passed away, and how he wished she could have been around to see this film. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z

Billy said it was usually when you were old; their mum was unlucky. ‘There will be an afterwards’: how a mother prepared her sons for her death 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

Now, in show week, most of the mums are about six feet tall or more, trained as ramrod-straight vertical stems, one or two to a plant. The hidden world of exhibition chrysanthemums 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

My mum was always the parent who packed the best lunchboxes on school trips. My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

"It was like the mums and dads getting really enthusiastic about what their kids were into." When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z

Go to Glasgow city centre on a Friday night you have the real kids on the street with nothing to do; their mums are away on drugs. The Angels' Share's Paul Brannigan: 'I've been slashed, stabbed and shot at' 2012-05-31T15:30:41Z

There have been times when I've wished I could speak to him instead of my mum. Looking after Les Dawson's legacy 2012-09-28T23:04:02Z

"Who will live with me when mum dies?" she asks, during one of their confabs about death, eternity and the extinction of the stars. When David Lost His Voice by Judith Vanistendael - review 2012-05-25T21:55:08Z

The German Democratic Republic had just become part of re-unified Germany, and my mum had moved to Zwickau, deep in the old East, “to show solidarity”, she said. Lenin, mum and me – my communist childhood 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

“Even in my mum’s most drug-addled moments, she was kind of adamant about education,” he says. Moonlight’s writer Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'the story needed to be out there' 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Anyway, when I announced to my mum back in 1982 that I would no longer eat meat or fish, she – being a sweet and liberal sort of mother who took her children seriously – acquiesced. Hadley Freeman on the horror of eating fish: ‘Weird – get this out of my mouth now’ 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Then Kanye West mentioned them on his blog – which led the excited young band to phone their mums. How Two Door Cinema Club became shock blockbusters 2010-12-16T22:55:01Z

That day, I also called my mum to tell her. Experience: I met my sister for the first time at Glastonbury 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

It all starts when Ben gets in trouble for using his mum's credit card to buy a cyber-pet. Fiction for older children – reviews 2013-07-27T13:00:00Z

Gibson was expected to turn up on the red carpet for the festival's glitzy premiere of "The Beaver" later, though Foster said would remain mum. Foster, 'Beaver' do Gibson's talking at Cannes 2011-05-17T13:48:09Z

There were several people around and from a distance quite a lot of them looked like my mum and dad. Matt Lucas: ‘Losing my hair at the age of six shaped my life’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

I saw a guy get stabbed to death outside my mum's house," Butler remembers. "He died in her arms. Black Sabbath on the occult, God, cocaine and reuniting for new album 13 2013-06-06T16:35:50Z

My mum worries a lot about my future. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

"Well, I wouldn't be here to begin with," remarked my mum. Family life 2012-12-22T00:04:00Z

Her mum is trying to help focus her attention by emailing her own anecdotes. Anna Kendrick: real girl in la-la land 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

In fact, my mum loves to try vegan recipes. The rise of vegan teenagers: 'More people are into it because of Instagram' 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

My mum never had a hobby, she never joined a book club or took time to herself. My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

I have a distinct memory of this lamp that my mum got from my grandmother – as a child I always thought it looked like a scary face that was constantly staring at me. From John Carpenter to Slipknot's Clown: what scares the masters of horror? 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z

He nodded and said very nice and told my mum he wouldn't be charging waiting time. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

Every August, my mum and I went to Potsdam for an English summer course. Lenin, mum and me – my communist childhood 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

He grew up in Gloucester as Simon Beckingham, dad a key- board player in a local band and mum a member of an amateur dramatics troupe. Simon Pegg: 'I measure life by my feelings for Star Wars' 2010-10-16T23:05:00Z

I mean, my mum has done everything for me. Tom Rosenthal: 'I'm quite sort of talented' 2011-08-14T20:45:00Z

My mum and dad are going to pay me back. Happy birthday, Gen Z: celebrating with 16-year-olds around the world 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

My mum is 84 now and still healthy and in great mind. Gloria Estefan: My family values 2013-07-12T12:00:01Z

I want him looking for his glasses, trying not to come, doing the dumb verb of journaling, getting spinach caught between canine and gum, berating my logorrhea, or my not staying mum. David Foster Wallace memoir gathers acclaim 2013-06-05T14:28:41Z

This time, I asked my mum for an A1 sheet of thick cartridge paper, mounted with masking tape onto one of her heavy artist’s drawing boards. Start with the Map 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Holidays with our mums, and failing dry January. Blind date: She said, ‘You haven’t kissed me yet.’ I did as I was told 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

She kisses her mum, hugs her tight and steals her orange juice. The Saturday interview: Pearl and Daisy Lowe 2011-04-01T23:05:38Z

One morning I woke up for a normal school day, and my mum showed me an email. On Their Small Shoulders Rest Some Big Films 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

As for the Magimix 2000 food processor, my mum passed that to me about 25 years ago, along with the blade, graters and various other attachments. 'I bought this mixer when I was pregnant. My son is now 35': Guardian readers on the appliances that just won’t quit 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

I got the box set for Christmas, my mum bought it for me and I couldn't even get through one episode. Danny Dyer's favourite TV 2013-03-25T12:00:00Z

Amstell delight: fictional Simon gets used to his fictional mum's front room. Amstell delight 2010-08-06T23:10:00Z

When my mum suggested I move to Indonesia with her, I thought, “Why not?” and started making preparations. I gave it all up … to cycle the world with my dog 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Once in Australia, children older than 2  were taken from their mums and sent to the Queen’s Orphanage. Motherlode: Parenting in a Prison Colony 2011-04-08T16:53:27Z

I remember when I was touring in my 20s, my mum and my sister were watching that show. Luis Felber Has Never Seen ‘Girls’ 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

She was like a mum to me, to be honest, like a big sister. Sam Smith Is Finding a Place Inside Queer Spaces 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Your mum features a lot on the Indigo Child project, mainly yelling at you to take your education seriously. BBC Sound Of 2015: Raury 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

What sometimes upsets me is that our daughters are very close to Gundeep now – he’s both their dad and mum most of the time. How hard is it to be a chef and a mother with young children? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Skye and Derby's mum doesn't seem to realise that the other mums she is talking to clearly think what she's doing is disgusting. TV review: My Child's Big Fat Birthday 2010-07-20T06:59:00Z

Also, I met Vin’s mother, who’s lovely, and I think there’s something there as well: He’s very, very close to his mum and obviously loves her. Honk if Helen Mirren and Vin Diesel Should Have Kissed in ‘F9’ 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

It's obvious I got problems, you know: my mum committed suicide when I was a kid. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

They are great boys, their mum would be very proud of them. Elton John does not expect invite to royal wedding 2011-01-25T12:38:07Z

Lily Alone is the story of an 11-year-old girl left alone with her two sisters and brother when their mum goes on holiday to Spain with her new boyfriend. Lily Alone by Jacqueline Wilson ? review 2011-03-23T17:25:00Z

I would buy something, and then my mum would want it as well, for a show. A Young Collector Continues the Family Tradition in SoHo 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Even when her colleagues peppered her on air with questions about Meghan’s shower, she remained mum. Our culture needed an adult. Gayle King rose to the challenge. 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

The cups in size order, the man who can only poo naked, the girl who speaks in baby language to her mum even though she's 30. Russell Kane's ordered life 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z

You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life? Fools' gold: super-rich Instagram decoded 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

I also worried that all my replies would read: “Go home, mum,” so I experimented with changing my age to 25. Lost for words? A new app writes witty texts so you don’t have to 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

My mum used to say to us: “All I care about is that you’re kind and thoughtful.” Damian Lewis: ‘We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Listen to the advice of the people who love you, like your mum: she’s always fighting for you to see the beauty in your blackness. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

I gave it to my mum and now she has joined a band, made loads of friends and has a hobby she absolutely adores. Drunk online shopping: readers’ regrets 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Tell that imperiously to your mum when she’s unwrapped it and is pretending it’s so much better than the sheepskin wellington boot insoles she asked for. Why Donald Trump’s victory is a gift for Gwyneth Paltrow 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

The children are very happy when the mum bat goes in one of their bat boxes. Catch that Bat by Adam Frost, illustrated by Mark Chambers - review 2013-05-04T17:00:00Z

Museum officials remain mum on the identity of the artist and the exact date it will go on view. Presidents Gallery reopens with a look at both the good and bad of the men 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

He worked hard as a watchmaker and jeweller and my mum worked part-time as a nurse. Tommy Hilfiger: ‘My dad apologised for not being a great dad, which was very moving’ 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Growing up, my grandma, mum, and I would toast, grind, and blend these spices from scratch, yielding a powder that's at once bitter, sweet, herby, and astringent. The seven pantry essentials in my Nigerian kitchen 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

When I was 11, my mum was driving my friends and I back to the house so we could have a picnic in the garden. Juno Temple's teenage obsessions: 'Brandon Flowers was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen' 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

I don’t mind, because I am a single mum. My 10-year-old has started sleeping in my bed. Am I wrong to allow it? 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

“The hardest part was going back through to the kitchen and telling his mum what I found. It’ll never go away.” Gym, eat, repeat: the shocking rise of muscle dysmorphia 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

Daisy, her mum and her two best friends, Gabby and Dylan, spend her birthday at the zoo. Double Daisy by Kes Gray - review 2013-06-20T14:00:00Z

When characters have to keep mum to stay alive, sound design can go to some innovative places. Making the Sound of Silence in ‘A Quiet Place’ 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

Moving on from Tesco then ... here's the Islamic centre, which used to be the Star and Garter, where the mum of this lady from the film used to play the piano. TV review: The Secret History of Our Streets 2012-06-20T21:01:01Z

As Joel wows the women with heels and head-dresses, the Jewish mums trade rival tales of who owns the largest walk-in shoe cupboard, who's got more impending grandchildren and who keeps the strictest Sabbath. Strictly Kosher: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011-07-08T23:07:25Z

“I was a very quiet child and any time my mum tried to speak to me I’d shut down,” says Regan, 34, from his south London studio. The big picture: 'Without photography, I wouldn't be here' 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

I was wearing my best suit, the one my mum had got in the sale at Lewis' in Leeds, and this was only the second time I'd worn it. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

Very strangely, the role of his horrible mum, complete with false teeth and coke-bottle glasses, is taken by Natascha McElhone, otherwise renowned as one of the world's most beautiful and stylish women. Film review: The Kid 2010-09-16T22:11:00Z

"I am not comfortable with this," winces mum Holly, the sole voice of reason. Dance Moms, awful but addictive 2013-04-13T05:00:00Z

I'd been really careful eating the first one because my mum had warned me not to spill 'anything' on my new suit. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

Yet, in her modest but charming new comedy, Learning to Drive, Clarkson is not just playing the mum. Patricia Clarkson: ‘A white male actor should never complain about anything’ 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

A great cat, sure – a noble, lazy, affectionate cat with a proud low-hanging belly that my mum folds under when carrying her in company. How do I explain death of our cat to my two-year-old? | Eva Wiseman 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Between the little wishes for world peace and someone hoping their mum's leg might get better, there was a heartfelt wish that "curators would stop recycling the Wishing Tree – it's been done to death". Do It: the art of instructions 2013-07-09T06:00:00Z

The courage it took me to call up my mum and confess gave me a little piece of much-needed evidence that I wasn’t a bad person. Confessions of a kleptomaniac 2012-10-10T22:05:00Z

“My mum was watching all of their past go by. I was watching all of our future disappear.” We crammed 30 years into four when the love of my life got a brain tumour 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

For years, my mum was dismayed at my lack of cooking ability. My pandemic epiphany: I'll always spend all of my money on takeout 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Pollock stayed mum on the subject of sources. How Mexico’s Muralists Lit a Fire Under U.S. Artists 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Kyle was starting to make demands: he wanted to go out, wanted to leave the kids with Fri’s mum, wanted Fri to come back, wanted her to bring him cigarettes and milk. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

She says she learnt to sing by copying some of her favourite artists such as Otis Redding and Candi Staton - and listening to the Motown greats that her mum played at home. Pixie has a 'Lott' on her mind 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

My mum and dad went to see it and thought it was brilliant. Why Bohemian Rhapsody should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

I'm quite open with my mum about that sort of thing, but if I say I've got so much cellulite, she says, you've got to stop: be happy with what you've got. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

I remember going into them with my mum, running my fingers along the shelves, letting the edges of pages slip through my fingers. Digital books may not be for everyone. But for blind people, they're a true revolution 2012-08-17T21:00:01Z

My own parents have a garden that also produces gooseberries and my mum dutifully made some of this jam for me, although there was never enough for my daily consumption. Family life 2012-08-24T23:05:04Z

Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian My mum died last week. To my parents, who gave me Rome, Pompeii and so much else 2013-03-27T15:46:58Z

Your fuddy-duddy mum doesn't get it; you know best! Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z

I was 11 years old when I asked my mum for piano lessons, in 2010. Experience: I learned to play the piano without a piano 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

The homecoming mums were gifts you’d give your date: elaborate flowers with ribbons and football-themed gewgaws hanging all over them in your school’s colors. It's not me, it's you: six comedians on their best and worst love stories 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

"I don't remember much about my mum," he says. Back to Bradford: Andrea Dunbar remembered on film 2010-04-12T20:35:00Z

"Dad has some architectural drawings I can't imagine ever doing and mum is an accomplished artist." What is it like to live with parents very different from you? 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

I liked this book because it's very funny: Daisy's mum calls her silly names like "dustbin pillow" so I would like you to read these Daisy books, too. Double Daisy by Kes Gray - review 2013-06-20T14:00:00Z

You know: here's the recovering heroin addict who's out with his mum all the time. Brand designs 2010-04-06T07:00:00Z

You made our mum’s hair look nicer than she’d ever been to any of us.’” ‘Documentary Now!’ Review: The Comfort We’ve Been Waiting For 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

My mum knows I am always trying my best and that is good enough for her. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

If ever I'm in trouble I ring my mum. The Saturday interview: Pearl and Daisy Lowe 2011-04-01T23:05:38Z

But Sir Paul stayed mum on this one. Books of The Times: ‘Tune In,’ Part 1 of a Beatles Biography, by Mark Lewisohn 2013-12-11T21:46:20Z

If you want something more unusual, look for spoon mums, quilled mums, or spider mums. The very best flowers to plant in the fall 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

Now race had made itself known to us, my mum did not hold back: my siblings and I would watch films about the civil rights struggle, slavery and apartheid. Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

I have to put aside my homework and help my mum log on. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

On my pillow, day four, lay a note: “Dear mum, I miss the sound of your lovely voice, and I am truly sorry.” Tiny Love Stories: ‘I Worried About Telling Him My Age’ 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Another great spot from Loach: Crissy Rock, another former club comic, is tremendous as self-destructive mum Maggie, who has lost four of her children to social services after a string of disastrous relationships. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

So my mum picked me one of those old Arsenal away shirts, really hideous yellow. Jamie Bell: From Billy Elliot to Tintin 2011-03-13T00:03:06Z

As Farmer's Almanac notes, there was also a custom to literally put on a little show at a strangers doorstep, which was called "mumming." In praise of the "retro" candy apple and its connection to trick-or-treating 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

“I remember being two maybe, and hearing my mum’s typewriter in the other room and sticking my hands under the door and screaming, ‘Mum! Zoe Kazan: ‘There’s so much sexual harassment on set' 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

There was no listening to iPods or iPhones – even the Sony Walkman was years away from being invented – and no tearful texting our mums from our mobiles. My prize-winning European tour with 50 other post-A-level teenagers 2010-08-17T19:30:00Z

His mum – who had packed him cheese and ham sandwiches to take along for the day – was more sceptical. Mad Max’s Nicholas Hoult on hanging off lorries and channeling Andrex puppies 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

"I think it's really for my mum," she said. Olivia Newton-John: sweetheart, sex idol, rock chick, radio star 2013-03-11T18:01:58Z

There were lots of other prize-winners going in, girls as well as boys, and most had their mums and dads with them. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

The 19th-century painter whose portrait of his dear old mum made him a household name is profiled in "James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty." TV This Week Sept. 7 - 13: 'Boardwalk Empire' on HBO 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

"How are you feeling about Margaret Thatcher tonight?" asks Atlanta's Killer Mike – Michael Render to his mum – of a room full of raised middle fingers. Killer Mike – review 2013-02-15T15:19:00Z

There is another world of chrysanthemums hiding in plain sight, to wit the once familiar and now more obscure spectacle of the exhibition mum. The hidden world of exhibition chrysanthemums 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

My little brother's into hard rap, my mum's into country and western, and my dad is into jazz. Leading the field 2010-05-21T23:02:00Z

"I have the hard, go-getting, organised confidence from my mum but under it a real softness." Hayley Atwell 2010-10-09T23:05:00Z

“When I was six years old, my mum asked me what I wanted for Christmas,” Nathan says. ‘I’m a human calculator’: what’s it like to be a child genius – or to raise one? 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

My mum used to have a Mini Cooper. What Drives Stella McCartney 2012-02-22T11:58:00Z

It sounds like a small amount, but I owed my mum £300 and I was behind on the rent. ‘I liked going to New York as a drug trafficker’: Duane Jackson 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

Remain mum when the conversation turns to him. Ask Amy: Loving wife obsessed with former flame 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Two years ago, Two Door Cinema Club decided they'd had enough of the way they were getting to their gigs: getting a lift from one of their mums. How Two Door Cinema Club became shock blockbusters 2010-12-16T22:55:01Z

I think I was soothed by my mum. Philippa Perry: Couch fiction 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z

I moved into L’Arche when my mum died five years ago. How we live together: 'I moved in when my mum died. I feel loved here' 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

"I think our mum might have had a bit of a different view but she kind of went with it." Our dad, Joe Strummer, remembered 2012-07-27T23:05:09Z

As my mum lay dying, I was in a room full of strong women with her. Feminism, politics and death: my mum died the night Hillary Clinton lost 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

He was very polite, and a vegetarian, which my mum would approve of. Blind date: ‘She was game for a second bottle’ 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

In any audience, there's a lot of people who've been dragged down by their boyfriends and their girlfriends — the mums and dads sometimes. ABC's Martin Fry on writing '80s love songs to be original: "It was kind of an act of rebellion" 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z

As far as I could see, all my childhood I’d been sold empty promises of paradise and contact with my mum reminded me of it. Lenin, mum and me – my communist childhood 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

The aim is not to impress a professor with your knowledge, amaze your mum or to get something off your chest. Roger Highfield on science writing: 'Grab them with your first sentence' 2013-03-20T07:00:01Z

His criticism hits a personal note for me because my mum worked for the Race Relations Board, when she met my dad, who was central in the black power movement in Birmingham. Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate Britain 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

My pupils had never heard of The Beatles so I got snippets from my mum and dad. The Beatles at 50: The Quarrymen 2012-10-02T21:03:23Z

There's an image of the artist's mum wearing a makeshift fool's hat and standing in the corner of her bedroom as if in detention. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

Initially, of course, they were a little anxious, especially my mum. Alan Cumming on digging deep for new memoir 'Not His Father's Son' 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

It’s up to my mum and me to pull him back down to earth. 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

But the two girls become friends and Rebecca's dad sees that Iris's mum is keen to forge a career in law. The Book Show 2010-04-07T23:05:00Z

So we have Josh sitting beside an idyllic harbour in his shorts, and we have Devorah’s mum phoning from the clinic with updates on how things are going. New man becomes new dad – the very hard way 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

Now he bares not only guilt from killing his father, but guilt for his mum being in prison. Tell Me No Lies by Malorie Blackman - review 2013-04-20T17:00:00Z

My mum made sure I always felt powerful. Chloë Sevigny: ‘Make lists after break-ups or have a passionate fling 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z

But George was also made by his mum, who accepted her son's difference and colluded in his fashion choices. Rewind TV: Panda Makers; Operation Mincemeat; The House That Made Me; The Day John Lennon Died; The Nation's Favourite Abba Song 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

In the book that has emerged from those conversations, From Cradle to Stage, Dave Grohl – or David, as his mum steadfastly calls him – recalls a moment when music took over his life. How to raise a rock star, by Dave Grohl's mum 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

Indeed, executives I know at a macho and hitherto notoriously anti-female conglomerate recently started actively recruiting mums, as they realised they work harder. Do Marissa Mayer's maternity plans make her a fit role model for women? 2012-07-21T23:05:56Z

“It’s usually some mum clearing out her loft who doesn’t know what everything’s actually worth,” said Ms. Russell, who lives in East London. Gen Z Channels the 1990s 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

William Miller somehow made being an intense, gawky teen with a music taste dictated entirely by my mum's dubious record collection seem OK. Why I'd like to be … Patrick Fugit in Almost Famous 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

A recent card containing a photo of my mum reduced him to tears. Autism: of mice, men and my little bro 2013-04-30T07:00:03Z

At the same time, “it’s crazy how much they say their parents matter. There’s a huge reliance on mum – looking to her for solace and direction.” Teenagers on loneliness: ‘We want to talk to our parents. We need their guidance’ 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

Which raises the question: has its writer’s mum seen it yet? Ridley Scott on sci-fi epic Raised By Wolves: 'Watch it with three bottles of wine!' 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

He was back living with Paul in the holidays, though, because his mum had died of cancer the year before. Robert Webb: ‘Jokes are important for men – we think we invented them’ 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

And then my mum's dad is African-American and he was here in the second world war, a GI. Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

So the fact that they got divorced and my mum said, I’m done – I think that was kind of outrageous to him.” 'I haven’t seen a healthy version of marriage': children of divorce on the lasting impact 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z

It’s about a bunch of mums who turn to a life of violent crime. Tired of rewatching Fleabag? Here are 30 TV hidden gems to stream 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

I grew up in a tiny town in East Texas which has a tradition of homecoming mums. It's not me, it's you: six comedians on their best and worst love stories 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

I'm glad I have documented this – if I died today, my mum would probably play Robbie Williams's Angels. Six Songs of Me: John Burns of Juan and Only 2012-08-24T08:55:00Z

Matt's mum is an effective parent – and that's one of the reasons she gets left behind. Gillian Cross: 'I'm looking at reality, as hard as I can' 2013-05-20T16:22:55Z

When he had reached that 73 figure, he says, he showed his working to his mum as a somewhat tongue-in-cheek rebuttal to her persistent inquiries as to why he didn’t have a girlfriend. All you need is maths? The man using equations to find love 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

She was raised in a suburb of Sydney, where both her parents worked, her mum in a primary school, her dad as a statistician. Rose Byrne: ‘You understand why feminists are furious – we’re still talking about this?’ 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z

My mum tells me she’d get a Beatles record, before she got a record player, and she’d sort of look at them and check them out and clean them and put them back. | Arctic Monkeys: Rock Star Tunes in to the Elders of the Tribe 2011-05-14T04:00:06Z

It must be odd, fighting your mum while someone films you. The Fall; Skint – TV review 2013-05-13T21:01:01Z

Little Darlings When for Destiny's birthday, her mum buys tickets to London to a film premiere, including the amazing Danny himself, Destiny discovers the truth about her dad. Little Darlings by Jacqueline Wilson - review 2013-03-27T12:00:00Z

My mum used to have a little metal pot with a flourish, it was very Arabian. Amal Awad: 'Arab women have traditionally been written about in a very patronising way' 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

When my dad died, it was as if my mum died too. Brigitte Nielsen 2011-07-29T23:07:09Z

It was something that my brother, my mum and I would watch. Tom Hopper: 'I could watch another 10 seasons of Friends' 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

And Newsround has a wonderfully eclectic mix of hard news, say, about elections, coupled with a piece about three tiger pups abandoned by their mum. Cheryl Taylor interview: CBBC 'is where we want the BBC journey to begin' 2012-12-09T18:30:01Z

The bride's veil blows awry, the mother pins her down; a child at her mum's dressing table learns the same lesson at approximately four. Kutlug Ataman 2010-04-10T23:06:00Z

My mum was in a band when I was a baby and I played the bass in a few punk groups in York, where I'm from. 'Dirty and wobbly' 2010-05-26T11:28:00Z

If you didn’t do this, the mums would bloom around Thanksgiving — too late for the show and will be at risk from freeze damage. The hidden world of exhibition chrysanthemums 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

My dad used to be the first up, followed by mum. Family life 2012-05-18T23:05:08Z

Williams's work is full of responsible mums and absent dads; siblings divided by ambition and achievement; people questioning whether they conform to expectations or accusing others of not doing so. Roy Williams: Confessions of an uncool kid 2010-06-07T20:31:00Z

This is the first year there have been comparisons between myself and my mum as athletes, because I’m starting to compete over the distances that she did. Sporting children of champions: 'I've always had a need for speed' 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Well, instead of keeping mum or offering a subtle statement like, "Snickers: The same as they ever were," it decided to take advantage of this week's trending topic. No, a "woke mob" did not convince Snickers to get rid of the "veins" on its candy 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian As a child, Tobias Wolff rode shotgun across 1950s America with his single mum at the wheel. Tobias Wolff: 'I still feel as though I'm faking it' 2011-08-25T09:32:10Z

I think I only got one ticket, and that’s reserved for mum. Dev Patel Calls Himself the Woody Allen of the Gym 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

His mum, dad and older sister, Grace, run the zoo. Sammy Feral's Diaries of Weird by Eleanor Hawken - review 2013-02-12T15:00:00Z

“My mum would stick pieces in the washing machine to get it softer and softer, so that when I needed a replacement it wasn’t too stiff.” Still have your childhood teddy? The psychological power of the toys we keep 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Panda Panic is a picture book about a Panda called Ping who lives with his mum and twin sister on the Wolagong Nature Reserve in China. Reader reviews roundup 2013-04-26T08:05:00Z

Part mentor, part mum figure, she recalls being hoarse at the end of every day’s filming, from shouting at them to take their headphones out and listen. Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

Growing up, Morrison starting snapping photos on her mum’s camera aged six or seven. 'I was terrified I was going to be a flash in the pan': three people who made Hollywood history 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

But on the issue of abortion, Black church leaders have been more mum. Why some Black churches aren’t elated about the possible end of Roe 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

I swear that I can remember being in my mum’s baby carrier, and what her hair looked like from that angle, which is apparently not possible. Anna Paquin: ‘My Oscar? It’s not the highlight of my career’ 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

Medea had nothing on these mums, whose attitude to sex has been so deformed by guilt they are prepared to sacrifice their own progeny rather than face up to their own tortured consciences. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

As for her personal life with Palladin, she prefers to remain mum on the subject. Jean-Louis Palladin was D.C.’s original celebrity chef. But his legacy is complicated. 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

The actor once said she knew how to judge the quality of a script because she’d grown up reading drafts of her mum’s work. Jennifer Jason Leigh: ‘I've been at this precipice so many times' 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

If the thought of adoption threw these kids for a loop, then why not keep mum until the deed was done? His adoption secret 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z

But she wasn’t an ordinary mum; she had helped out with his previous bands and taken him to jazz clubs. How to raise a rock star, by Dave Grohl's mum 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

Boyega was born in Peckham, south London, to a dad who was a minister and a mum who worked with disabled children; both immigrated from Nigeria before their son was born. John Boyega: storming from Peckham to galactic fame | Observer profile 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

Seeing the clothes on her mum unexpectedly made them look even stronger, she says. ‘The waste and excess is more visible’: how coronavirus is shaking up fashion 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

It turns out that Cinders was a Yorkshire girl, brought up by the Scarborough seaside with her mum and dad. This week's new theatre 2012-11-24T00:05:41Z

You know, with my mum be a casting director and my dad a literary agent, I've heard a lot of round-the-dinner-table complaining about certain actors and their behaviour. Daniel Radcliffe: 'I'm not a one-trick pony' 2013-06-02T18:00:01Z

In the same way I never pictured myself getting married, my mum gave up any fantasies of her daughter’s special day when I came out, aged 16. Our gay wedding: ‘Does one of us have to play the groom?’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

He asked my mum, 'Why would I devote myself to one woman and three children when I could be helping thousands?' MIA: 'I'm here for the people' 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

To the point where my mum still buys me every edition of Bob Dylan’s lyrics. Snapshot: Paloma Faith Releases ‘Fall to Grace’ in America 2012-11-29T15:22:41Z

Frances Ha fixed that, and Gerwig made her directing debut with Lady Bird, a teen movie in which the heroine’s really meaningful relationships are with women – her best friends and her mum. Sequins, eyeliner and loos: how female friendships on screen got real 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Needless to say, the show's network and studio are mum on their long-term plans, which might not reveal themselves until next season is under way. Who will star in 'The Office,' 'Men' next season? 2011-04-05T13:19:55Z

A mental break from being “mum” or “dad” helps you to feel more “you” – and more desirable. The secret to... rediscovering sex after having a baby 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z

I'd pull her head back and she would speak to my mum. Watch my lips 2010-05-07T23:06:00Z

“Right, so when we were going to the Emmys, the papers all called up my mum to ask what we would be wearing. And she said something like: ‘I don’t know. Flight of the Conchords: ‘We're retired sex symbols' 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

The funeral was scheduled and my mum wanted me to read a poem. 'She'll never realise the impact she had': life-changing conversations 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

With his charges now opened to the craft and beauty of opera, he also sets his sights on inspiring another group of people: their mums. Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne 2010-07-01T07:00:00Z

Wyman has been mum on Richards' invitation — he quit the Stones because he hated the travel. Rolling Stones bassist Wyman box set shines 2011-11-22T00:34:05Z

My mum died when I was four, so it was kind of obligatory that we spend time together – he was the only parent around. A trip never taken: a mission to find my mother brought me closer to my father 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

It’s been a while since I watched the original pilot, and I should be seeing at least one more episode before I review it, so I’ll mostly keep mum for now. In Previews: NBC Is Going to Make Damn Sure You Sample Smash 2012-01-17T16:57:54Z

Last time I was at home, I was on my laptop and my mum was in the other room. Potted Potter: Harry in a hurry 2011-08-01T20:46:01Z

I would recommend this book for ages ten plus - as my mum now wants to read it too! Wonder by R. J. Palacio - Review 2013-02-22T09:00:00Z

Making my mum laugh was the best thing as a young child. Alan Davies: My family values 2013-07-26T12:00:00Z

But when mum and I went down the stairs and opened the door, what do you expect there was? Your stories: The Soldier's Story by Butterfly Rainbow 2012-12-22T08:00:00Z

"I get my strength from my dad and my punk from my mum." From Elephant 6 to Deerhunter: The US's new psychedelia 2011-03-10T23:00:01Z

Think of your deflection as the ornamental fence that keeps her from blundering into the mums. Carolyn Hax: What’s in a name? None of your business. 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

The mum, Meredith Hooper, is an academic and an author; her work includes books for children and nonfiction about Antarctica, where she is headed next for a months-long research stint. The Carpetbagger: It?s Back to the Studio, as Oscar Season Ends 2011-03-02T23:27:13Z

Following her engaging documentary series on becoming a mum last year, presenter Cherry Healey looks into the inflammatory subject of breastfeeding as part of BBC3's Bringing Up Britain season. Tonight's TV highlights: Britain's Next Big Thing 2011-04-12T07:00:04Z

Not everyone got the memo to keep mum. The hearing that shut up Washington. And then . . . 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

My mother was the first person I ever photographed, and for me photography is about my mum. Dinner, dusk and dancing Russians: my best winter shot 2012-12-16T17:59:01Z

"The only reason I wrote was to make sense of what went on in my past – this business of my mum and dad," she said. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z

If only she could get home, her mum and dad would protect her. Rachel Abbott: 'Self-publishing means the success of my books is entirely down to me' 2013-07-02T09:53:52Z

My nan owned a small greengrocer's so obtaining one or two of these baskets for my mum wasn't a problem. Family life 2013-02-23T07:15:01Z

On top of that, I’m passionate about my career and I’ve never seen myself being a stay-at-home mum like my mother. Women without children: ‘I don’t want to be pitied – I’m really happy' 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

There's a line that's put in there affectionately that my mum said to me when I was 18. Ricky Gervais's ballad of Reading jail 2010-04-08T21:00:00Z

“I think I’d be a really horrible mum. I am very narcissistic; I only think about myself.” ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Humber's mum goes into hospital and comes back with his new baby sister, Plum. Gwyneth Rees's top 10 books about siblings 2013-05-16T14:50:00Z

My mum scares the hell out of me all the time! BBC Sound of 2014: Ella Eyre 2014-01-09T08:07:16Z

There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation. Brigitte Nielsen 2011-07-29T23:07:09Z

He watched Loose Women with his mum, and Joan Rivers got kicked off, for bad language. TV review: The Boy Who Can't Forget; The Paradise 2012-09-25T21:10:01Z

The lady from Harrogate tapped my mum on the shoulder and asked if she'd mind taking her hat off because people behind couldn't see. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

She told Fri to call her mum or her brothers, to tell them what Kyle was saying, but Fri wouldn’t. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

My mum… I couldn't tell you what she thinks. Gwendoline Riley: 'The buck stops here? I've got bad blood' ? interview 2012-05-18T10:45:03Z

"You just want to take the pain yourself," said her mum. TV review: Horizon: The Secret World of Pain, Outside the Court, Episodes 2011-02-01T08:00:03Z

Photographer I have a vivid early memory of going to a darkroom with my mum. Snap happy 2013-05-19T18:30:00Z

I do not think that you wonder why I do not mention my amazing and smart and fantastic mum. A letter to … All the mothers lucky enough to have their own mothers 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Suddenly, there were press at my mum and dad's house; it just felt surreal, like it was happening to somebody else. Kelly Reilly: 'I'm not an exhibitionist' 2011-01-02T00:05:11Z

"She turned to me and said, 'My mum was like that.'" Bronco Bullfrog: the film the UK forgot 2010-06-03T22:10:00Z

Friedman initially remained mum on the restaurant’s closing, Eater reported, but sources for the outlet revealed that employees had been told to begin looking for other work as of last week. The Spotted Pig closes following settlement announcement, 'rape room' accusations 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Yes, the nation truly is a family, presided over by a supply of mums as endless as the tapering perspective of that table in the street. The big picture: Salford, Manchester, June 1977 2012-05-26T23:05:36Z

During the 1960s every Tuesday afternoon from 2-4pm, my mum went to the local wash house to do the family laundry. Family life 2013-02-23T07:15:01Z

You can plant mums in containers, hanging baskets, or in garden soil. The very best flowers to plant in the fall 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

There was a power cut one night, so my mum went round to see if she was all right. Peter Kay's best jokes 2010-04-26T19:00:00Z

Again, we didn’t speak much of my mum – we all knew her absence was the reason for us being there – but, instead, we got drunk and played games and were force-fed another Christmas dinner. My mother was dying – but my best friend brought happiness to a brutally sad day 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

When my mum died, I rushed to get there, but missed her dying. Another view on Teen Undertaker 2010-08-22T21:15:00Z

She served many tasty dishes that my mum – her daughter-in-law – never cooked and tuna fish and choux paste pie was one such meal. Family life: Against the odds, True Blue and tuna fish pie 2013-05-25T06:15:01Z

The programme, which takes a squawky panel approach to parenting issues of the day, is a pretty good guide to what's bothering  4's middle-class mums and dads. Bringing Up Britain – radio review 2013-04-05T06:00:06Z

"I had to keep it a secret for a really long time. I didn't even tell my mum for a while!" Happy cover results in support slot 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

It was worst of all for my mum. How Alzheimer’s took my brilliant dad, Lord Goodhart, in increments 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

Ben and bassist James's mum ran a nursing home in Kilmarnock while their dad was responsible for building local playgrounds and skate parks – employing his sons to help out in their summer holidays. Biffy Clyro interview: 'We care too much to be cool' 2013-01-26T22:00:01Z

I am scared of how your mum will react and what she might say about me. A letter to … my children to tell them I am transgender 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

My father worked all the time and if we had issues we went to our mum. Hollywood blacklisted my father Dalton Trumbo: now I’m proud they’ve put him on screen 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

When Nathaniel is my source, however, I’m the mom who is mum. Motherlode Blog: Why I Don't Rat Out My Son's Friends 2012-01-25T18:01:09Z

It was her mum who was her primary carer, whose achievements were the more amazing, of whom she was in awe. Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z

Jonathan Wright Glee creator Ryan Murphy's new series is a heartwarming tale of boy meets boy who then gets a single mum to have their baby for a wad of cash. TV highlights 10/01/2013 2013-01-09T20:00:01Z

We quickly learn that his dad is dead, that he's resentful of his mum for sending him away, and that he's bitterly jealous of her new boyfriend. Ghost Knight by Cornelia Funke – review 2012-11-23T22:55:08Z

Dave, then aged six, his sister Lisa and Virginia would always sing in the car; his mum was belting it out “above the booming roar of the open windows”. How to raise a rock star, by Dave Grohl's mum 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

They were a Jewish family, although my mum wasn't aware of that until her school friends told her they were no longer allowed to play with her. Family life 2013-03-02T07:15:01Z

"To think they didn't even think to mention Maxie to us," my mum says, still outraged at this, "that he wasn't even thought of as a baby." How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

I had a postman come to the house once and ask me if my mum and dad were in. Modern life is rubbish! The people whose homes are portals to the past 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

I remember being really young and dancing in the kitchen in north London for my mum, who always cooked to music. Reggie Yates: When I was an inmate in Texas, breakfast was disgusting 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z

The true rock bottom, however, was when Blue appeared on the show and Antony Costa sheepishly showed the crew around his mum and dad’s four-bed semi, complete with Spurs posters Blu-Tacked to the bedroom door. When good TV goes bad: how Blue’s Antony Costa closed the door on MTV Cribs 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

My mum takes it, too, because she helps my father with his business. Generation meds: the US children who grow up on prescription drugs 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

At the end, these small folk stamped and cheered with authentic bravura, led on by a few Teutonically enthusiastic mums and dads. Bayreuth festival: Lohengrin 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

I ran to where my mum was waiting. Can we all just stop banging on about diversity in films? 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z

Before long the little baddass had tried to murder his mum, was driven into a canal by his killer stepdad, had given his baby niece ecstasy and gone to borstal after smashing up the street. Child's play: the best young actors on the small screen 2011-03-04T10:34:43Z

When our mum told us that we were going to get to set our own rules, we wanted to start straight away. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

I stared ahead, trying not to look at my mum, but out of the corner of my eye I saw her taking a photo. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

"I'm a whole lot of trouble," sings Leona, rather unbelievably, on this atmospheric track which is a little bit dubstep but not enough to scare the mums. This week's new tracks 2012-10-05T23:04:03Z

“So much of what Meghan is, and how she is, is so similar to my mum,” he said in the series’s first episode. What We Learned From ‘Harry and Meghan,’ the Netflix Series 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

I ran home to tell my mum, who was peeling a bag of potatoes in the living room as she watched the TV, with a baby and a toddler. ‘Being poor is not inevitable or due to personal flaws. I know, I’ve been there’ | Mary O’Hara 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Another mum mentioned how she was able to be here today because her mum was looking after the youngest child. A letter to … All the mothers lucky enough to have their own mothers 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

You learn to soothe yourself because your mum picks you up and says, 'There, there!' Philippa Perry: Couch fiction 2010-04-17T23:07:00Z

Three dawn text messages from my mum, still averse to text language even at times when only emoji will do. Get out of my echo chamber. It's cosy in here 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

My mum works in the butchers and they are still selling Olympic gold sausages there. London 2012: British Olympians, one year on – Jade Jones 2013-06-22T23:05:24Z

And my mum was like: ‘Oh my God, I’m so embarrassed, I’m so sorry that my daughter is so rude.’ Freida Pinto: ‘I wouldn’t work with Woody Allen again’ 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

Living 13,000 miles away from my mum for most of my adult life meant our relationship had been feast or famine. My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Plant size and color are not the only distinguishing features, in fact, the National Chrysanthemum Society divides mums into 13 classes of bloom forms. The very best flowers to plant in the fall 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

And there are still people – @crambrose or my mum, for example – who can only watch TV when it happens. TV review: Peep Show; Him & Her 2012-11-25T22:35:01Z

Older women, suburban mums, families and a lot of straight guys. Hannah Gadsby meets Roxane Gay: ‘Trolls get incensed by a woman daring to think she's funny. I'm very funny’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

In the early days, it was really encouraging seeing other mums with older kids, and they’d say, “Don’t worry, this phase doesn’t last for ever.” Meet the regulars: what makes people want to eat in the same place every day? 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

“I felt so bad for my mum. She had to put up with me.” The dad who gave birth: ‘Being pregnant doesn't change me being a trans man’ 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

I’m sure your mum will agree when you put it to her reasonably. My mum and maths tutor are flirting, right under my nose | Mariella Frostrup 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

Right now, as a working mum: Four Seasons, Bali! Anne-Marie Duff: 'I wondered if I should lie about my background' 2013-05-19T05:00:03Z

"I remember calling my mum from a phone box outside," she says, her voice on the edge of laughter, as it often seems to be. Rachel Whiteread: 'I couldn't say no. It felt right to do this one' – interview 2012-07-07T19:19:01Z

Her mum steals anything, especially things that shine - just like crows. Shine by Kate Maryon - review 2013-06-04T11:00:00Z

Do pretend to be frightened, even if it is clearly your friend’s mum dressed as an owl. A complete guide to trick or treating – without upsetting any children or neighbours 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

While some of his friends suspect that he is a Republican, Mr. Jones said he would remain mum on that score. James Earl Jones as a Broadway Patriarch, Onstage and Off 2012-05-29T22:03:27Z

After sharing the story, McCartney, who would then sit down at a piano, said West told him: “I’m going to write a song with my mum.” Paul McCartney Says Collaborating With Kanye Reminds Him of John Lennon 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

To tell your own mum she is going to die. ‘I was not willing to die for my breasts': the young women opting for mastectomies 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

My dad was the leader of the chapter of an Italian cult called the Children of God and my mum was one of his wives. Rose McGowan: ‘Being sexually assaulted threw a wrench in my thinking' 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z

His older one has a different dad and didn’t come, which would cause a lot of pain to his mum. Growing up in the Wild Wild Country cult: ‘You heard people having sex all the time, like baboons’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

My mum had filled up a laundry basket with water in our garden in Connecticut and my cousin and I were in it, splashing about. Priscilla Presley: 'My fear is that people will forget about Elvis' 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

When we talk about this, she perks up, talking about moving to London, getting a flat and how her mum didn't mind. Diana Vickers: 'Have fun with me!' 2010-03-30T20:30:00Z

When Tracy fell into a drug-induced coma, unlike her mum or dad, Samir was compatible for a life-saving kidney transplant that went ahead after the minor complication of his being murdered by the canal. Shock Corrie 2010-12-04T00:05:00Z

Ms. Bartsch was similarly mum: “I’m a big flirt, too, and he can handle that.” The Man Who Made Working Out Cool 2011-04-27T23:27:25Z

“It’s a celebration for your mum too, she’s very proud of her daughter,” one said. Woman says mom wore bridal gown to her wedding, shares clip on TikTok 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

The Rebound Catherine Zeta Jones attempts to bounce back, as a single mum looking for company. This week's new films 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

He was 19 and striving to create some sort of home in the one-bed council flat he'd moved into in order to gain a bit of independence away from his mum. Family life: Grandparents raising a glass, seeing my brothers again and Auntie Sue's gherkin soup 2013-07-13T06:15:00Z

He came and talked to my mum for half an hour, chatted with neighbours and had his photo taken with many of them. Roger Lloyd Pack: Your memories 2014-01-17T12:16:06Z

I didn’t know whether to run and hide or to embrace it, but deep inside I knew I deserved to be listened to, just like all other working-class women; people who are struggling; single mums. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

"When they played the song, my mum was in tears," says Wix. Are Anna & Katy the new Vic & Bob? 2013-03-01T13:00:00Z

There were only four of us in our family: my mum, my dad, me, him. Martin and Gary Kemp: 'We complement each other' 2013-04-19T14:00:04Z

“I was so proud but my mum told me it was horrible. She said it looked like a council house and asked why I wanted to live in a slum.” ‘I wish I’d told Dad how much I hated him’ – when children ditch their parents 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

“I didn’t feel I could speak to my mum about how I felt. She felt very guilty about her illness, because it was lung cancer and she had smoked. I wanted to protect her.” How I photographed my mother’s last days 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

Luckily, the company, Western Edge Pictures, who also did Prevenge, are so supportive of me being a mum – that is vital. Alice Lowe: ‘I was terrified that Bill Nighy was going to hate me’ 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

Her room means a lot to her; her parents are divorced and though she lives mostly with her mum, when she stays at her dad's house, she ends up sharing with her brother. The teenage bedroom: a place to call your own 2013-04-18T11:30:00Z

"I remember my mum making bramble jelly when I was a child," she said. Chutfest 2010 spices up autumn for chutney enthusiasts 2010-10-03T15:06:00Z

I added the “h” to the end but my mum doesn’t add it when she writes to me — no hissy fit from me. Carolyn Hax: What’s in a name (or its pronunciation)? 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

I started watching this with my son the other day and just wanted to keep watching it with him, but following the Aids musical sequence, his mum insisted it wasn’t appropriate. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

The attempt to bridge seemingly unbridgeable divides – between being black and jewish, his mum and dad, singing and rapping, Toronto and Memphis – is one obvious starting point for Drake's musical quest. Streets takeover: Charting Drake's progress 2011-02-07T12:37:43Z

My mum, aunty and I are strolling down the street with wooden shopping trolleys clasped in our right hands, mine a miniature version of theirs. ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

She plays Darius, a graduate intern at a Seattle magazine who is still recovering from the death of her mum 10 years earlier. Aubrey Plaza: 'I'm a poster child for irony' 2012-12-14T23:00:16Z

She has had to explain to her own mother that, when I sing a line about a mum, it probably isn't you. Laura Marling: 'Americans – they're just a lot more poetic' 2013-04-27T23:04:02Z

It was added on set, apparently at the suggestion of Chloe's mum. Kick-Ass kicks the c-word into the mainstream | David Cox 2010-04-02T12:09:00Z

“I’m lucky I was raised to believe that my opinion at the dinner table was valuable. My mum and I spoke as loudly as my brothers.” Emma Watson: Feminism Is 'Not Dogmatic,' It's About Having Choices 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

I knew what was happening, and told my mum to inject me with cortisone. Experience: my family’s hypochondria saved my life 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

It's not easy and it's not easy for the mum either. Young, black and proud to be a father 2013-03-23T09:00:32Z

They didn't cry when they found their brothers, so they edited in a different bit of my mum crying somewhere else. Sara Pascoe's favourite TV: The Voice, Sherlock, Arrested Development 2013-07-29T11:00:00Z

From Where I'm Standing was a superb piece of work about teenage/parental relationships made by the kids with their mums and dads, and this exploration of the human heart should be equally arresting. This week's new theatre 2011-08-05T23:09:29Z

I want to wash my hands of it, but my mum keeps looking for support and I do want to protect her. My 72-year-old father is having an affair but my mum wont' leave him 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

And she's a sympathetic and similarly baffled parent, trying to work her way through toddler tantrums while meeting other mums at different stages of bringing up their kids. TV highlights 08/08/2011 2011-08-07T20:59:01Z

Hang on: was this the same Jamal who Cookie had rescued when Lucious would pop him in the bin for wearing his mum’s high heels in flashback scenes? When good TV goes bad: how Empire lost its crown – and found it again 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

So on Friday, the day after the premiere of “Russian Dolls,” the reality series chronicling the life styles of the rich and immigrated in Brighton Beach, nobody in that seaside Brooklyn neighborhood was keeping mum. Reality Show Ricochets Through Brighton Beach 2011-08-14T22:58:15Z

Anyway, not long after I'd started at the grammar school they took the old folk on an outing to Blackpool to see the illuminations which meant my mum staying away. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

I was with my mum as well; she died of respiratory failure at the age of 92. Sue Johnston: My family values 2012-08-10T23:05:06Z

The next morning, my mum sent me two bride emojis – one blond and one brunette, separated by a pink love heart – which I think means she’s very happy. Our gay wedding: ‘Does one of us have to play the groom?’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

“Not so my mum, but I think my dad just thought, ‘That’s not a job.’ How Mrs. Hughes served ‘Downton’ a nip of Scotch 2013-12-24T21:40:44Z

Actress Uma Thurman is staying mum about the convicted stalker who was recently arrested on charges of trying to contact her again. Actress Thurman mum on convicted stalker's arrest 2010-12-01T21:53:00Z

But the network has been mum about the details of how the show's matriarch and creator will disappear. Roseanne Barr may have just revealed how her namesake character will be killed off on “The Conn... 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

His mum always said, ‘You don’t ever see that side.’ ‘I had no idea about the hidden labour’: has the pandemic changed fatherhood for ever? 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

A Manhattan judge ordered the company to stay mum at least until a hearing Monday. Woodstock 50 concert organizers sue investor that backed out 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

My mum smiled at me and squeezed my hand. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

The dog is named after a wooden toy that used to be their mum's. The Book Bunch - group review selection 2013-02-06T09:00:00Z

A teenager who is accidentally sent back in time 30 years, and almost scuppers his parents' courtship when his mum gets the hots for him. Pass notes No 3,233: Michael J Fox 2012-08-21T19:00:01Z

It dismayed me to think that my mum was bored with my home town. Family life: Happiness is a hammock, Long Ago and Far Away and Yorkshire pudding 2013-06-22T06:30:12Z

It was surprisingly not bad, even when Clare and her mum arrived in 1975 to find a crow in the bedroom. Rewind TV: Mary and Martha; Lightfields; Food Glorious Food; Heading Out – review 2013-03-02T22:50:00Z

“I mean, I never saw my father at work, but from what my mum says, he was so full of enthusiasm with a little bit of mischief involved,” she said. Roland Emmerich?s ?Anonymous? Seeks to Unmask Shakespeare 2011-10-22T03:03:02Z

It's hard to give a big complex book to your mum and expect her to read it. A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z

He found solace in the love of his "alien mum". Confessions of an Alien Abductee exploited its unfortunate subjects 2013-06-18T06:00:11Z

Sheen himself, a man who's still on probation for his December 2009 domestic violence incident in Aspen and who seems coated in Teflon, has so far kept mum on the incident. Can Charlie Sheen be saved? 2010-10-27T15:20:00Z

There were the stories of my original parents having no choice, and the stories of my mum and dad having choice. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

Les never actually met her," says Tracy, "as she died before we got together but I'm sure she wouldn't have minded, and I don't think Meg's mum minded either. Looking after Les Dawson's legacy 2012-09-28T23:04:02Z

As we walked past the bustling stalls of jewelers, shoe-sellers and tailors, Seeta recalled the joyful escapism of catching the latest Bollywood hits with her mum here. A Journey Across London on the Elizabeth Line 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

On the way back south, we rolled into another remote campsite at an old telegraph station, which was run by a British woman the same age as my mum. My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

The mum from school who hardly said a word to me at the school gates but looked at every story the second I posted it on Instagram and probably gossiped about it afterwards. I have culled my friends to just the ones I value 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

Sometimes I might send my mum money for a week’s shop or a pack of cigarettes, other times more. How I learned to make peace with supporting my parents financially 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

Well, maybe not wall-to-wall, but their mums regularly punished them for piling them up by the door. New band of the day ? No 997: Tim & Jean 2011-04-04T16:08:12Z

My dad hasn’t seen his boyhood best friend since he married my mum in 1972. Is it just me... or does everyone lose friends in their 30s? 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z

His brother and twin sisters, mum and dad are all super brainy. The Book Bunch - group review selection 2013-02-06T09:00:00Z

Which raises the question: has she yet persuaded her mum, and is the next stop the world? Writer Chidera Eggerue on what #SaggyBoobsMatter is really about 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

I'm one of five so my mum has a kind of full-time housewife duty. Interviews with 18-year-old boys 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

His mum couldn't afford Nike trainers, so Drew had to wear his big sister's hand-me-downs. Plan B: 'I love directing. But does my art change lives? I don't think it does' 2012-06-07T19:00:08Z

My dad repaired cars and dreamed of big adventures and my mum looked after both me and my ill, elderly Irish gran, who lived with us. Cathy Cassidy's top 10 stories about sisters 2010-09-22T06:55:00Z

Between production fiascos and letters from dear old mum, Mr. Strickland bridges scenes with sounds, shadowy pans or blackouts instead of hard cuts. Movie Review: An Engineer’s Sonic Ordeals in ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ 2013-06-14T00:57:13Z

Family or not, I know my mum and dad would have thought long and hard before incurring the debt. My father paid four times his weekly wage for the greatest gift of my life 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

My mum and dad separated when I was three, but they were always there for me and my brother. From the grime MC to the model: five men on what masculinity means to them 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

My mum was very supportive, advising me to do what felt right. Experience: we fell in love without speaking 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Career liftoff means he’s rarely at home in Atlanta these days but he isn’t missing out on his Jamaican mum’s cooking – she sends him oxtail, curry and jerk chicken via overnight mail in airtight containers. Shannon Purser: ‘People have actually had Barb’s face tattooed on their bodies’ 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

One time my mum was texting me, using all this youth language. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

“Exams, university, getting your first house, things like that. You really need your mum. But because I lost my mum, I felt there was no choice.” ‘I was not willing to die for my breasts': the young women opting for mastectomies 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

There's a certain kind of child whose mum never lets them play with the rough boys, and maybe many of the Lib Dems are still those sweet bashful children. The David Laws story is nothing to do with gayness. It's about money 2010-05-29T23:06:00Z

The story is about a girl called Destiny who lives in a flat with her mum, and a daughter of a famous popstar. Reader reviews roundup 2013-03-29T08:00:00Z

Hilda’s mum wants her to have friends, to go to school, to participate in organized activities, but Hilda is always wandering off, learning Scout lessons on her own terms. Here Comes Hilda 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

Although my mum loves me unconditionally, I’ve always known we do not share the same bond that she and my aunty have. ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

My mum has had this whisk for at least 35 years. 'I bought this mixer when I was pregnant. My son is now 35': Guardian readers on the appliances that just won’t quit 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

At one point, Lionel tells his nephew: "See, there's certain things, Des, there's certain things a man can't do till his mum pops off." ArtsBeat: A String of Antiheroes: Martin Amis Talks About His Novels 2012-10-03T12:59:28Z

“My dad left when I was eight and I haven’t spoken to my mum once since I moved to Germany 10 years ago,” she explains. ‘I wish I’d told Dad how much I hated him’ – when children ditch their parents 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter Jade runs to the bathroom and says, “My mum is gonna be so ashamed of me.” From infrared cameras to headboard mics: The defining sex scenes of reality TV 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

My mum’s parents moved to Florida when I was in my early teens. John McEnroe: ‘Mum only came to my tennis matches if she thought I was going to lose’ 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

Now that I’m a mum myself I’m sorry I didn’t realise how much you were struggling. A letter to … my little sister, who has been missing for a year 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

What did your mum and dad think of rock'n'roll? Joe Cocker: 'I took black acid once ... it was a very dark trip' 2013-01-31T16:48:52Z

Recently, my mum was on holiday in Spain and she was chatting to some people about her children. How my ‘dead body’ ended up on millions of cigarette packets across Europe 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

Who takes a breast-fed newborn to a kebab shop without mum for several hours? Playing with Grownups – review 2013-05-30T12:35:59Z

I used to wait in the local library after school, while my mum was still at work. The Classic Novel That Robert Macfarlane Just Couldn’t Finish 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

My mum and dad bought their print of Frans Hals's famous portrait on a trip to London some time before I was born. The genius of Frans Hals 2010-09-24T15:22:00Z

While all involved have been keeping mum, we know that Sean Penn plays a man who looks back on his difficult childhood; Brad Pitt plays his father. Movies: Cannes Festival Rolls Out a Very Red Carpet 2011-05-10T12:00:06Z

My daughter, Holly, and I lived with my mum while I finished high school and went to college. Experience: my husband didn’t meet our daughter until she was 27 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

“We recently visited Vienna, where DeeDee’s mum was born,” says Bob. How we met: ‘When my wife was dying, she told me to look up my old friend DeeDee’ 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

One of our most cherished family sayings, which came out of an argument a few years ago between my grandmother, who had come round for dinner, and my mum. Secrets of the pig's room 2011-02-19T00:04:01Z

The lights are so bright you can't see the audience in any detail – my mum came and she asked me to look out for her, but you're not going to stop and wave. Model reaction 2011-04-02T23:04:06Z

Her husband Edgar and eight children - like the rest of the world - were utterly captivated, and the excitement even prompted mum Diana into first twinges of labor. Man named after Apollo 11 astronauts celebrates 50th birthday during moon landing anniversary 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

While Headlong's current touring production of Mike Bartlett's sees Euripides' spurned heroine as a single mum living on a new-build housing estate. Trojan tragedy goes modern 2012-11-15T06:55:18Z

With all due respect to her, my mum is quite like the description. Olivia Williams 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z

But poor Noel blubberingly fails to go through with it, because his mum has just died. Byzantium – review 2013-05-30T14:31:01Z

Not with my mum all dressed up in her royal blue hat and everything, so proud of me and excited. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

He told me the cancer in my mum’s right lung had spread. My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

The youngest of three sisters and one brother, she grew up in south-east London, with a single mum who works as a teaching assistant. Ami Metcalf on Walking And Talking like Kathy Burke 2012-06-22T23:01:00Z

Everyone's thinking, "blimey, what is it to be a child, and isn't it odd that mums and dads tell you off in different ways?" Glastonbury: 11 acts to watch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Play me that song again, and make sure my mum's out of the room this time. How it feels to be dissed on record 2010-04-30T11:24:00Z

But my mum never taught me Yoruba – which I'd study, with comical results, at Yale – and I heard not a word of my father's Ewe until I turned 15. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

Yeah, on that last one, they’re going away at Easter – for a week, with their mum. Everyone’s decluttering – is it time to throw out all your children’s toys and artworks? 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

I’d nearly failed to be with Millie and Matt on the dreadful journey of understanding and acceptance around their mum’s deathbed. My kids are more important than my career – so to hell with the job 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Nina's mother was beyond the cliche of a ballet mum – she was a psychopath. What Britain's ballet stars made of Black Swan 2011-01-05T21:31:00Z

But I can’t leave these mums alone with their children for even a second in the daytime for the first few weeks. ‘Only about half the mums who come through my door leave with their baby’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

Beyond that care, however, there are two other key aspects to raising these plants that sets the exhibition mum apart and contributes to its rarity. The hidden world of exhibition chrysanthemums 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Morwenna Banks plays Effy's equally lost mum Anthea with impressive distraction, but this is one of those Skins episodes where the "issues" start to take over and weaken the impact of the overall story. Natural World 2010-07-08T07:00:00Z

“I felt in quite a bit of pain, moving to America, leaving my brothers and sisters, my mum, whatever my identity was,” she says. Dolly Wells: 'As a heterosexual woman, you get your approval through other women' 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

“I wasn’t close with my mum,” Sandy says. ‘I gulp back feelings of regret’: how I found my long-lost sibling 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z

She lives in a swanky New York loft with her superstar artist mum and obnoxiously over-achieving little sister – both played by their real-life counterparts. First sight: Lena Dunham 2011-03-03T22:52:00Z

“I had just told my mum, and I was on top of the world,” he said. They Put the Heart in ‘Heartstopper’ 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z

In fact, for many workers, keeping mum about even mundane personal details is essential to their personal and professional well-being. @Work Advice: Is it unusual to keep work life and personal life totally separate?

Her mum, Janice, increasingly desperate, told her she had to quit the band. Little Mix's Jesy Nelson on surviving the trolls: 'People were saying horrific things' 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

As for the Cake Boss series, Buddy was mum on future plans, except to say an announcement was imminent. 'Cake Boss' flagship bakery to remodel but vows to stay true to its roots 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

I was hugely old when I became a mum. Cornelia Parker: A history of violence 2010-05-25T20:31:00Z

"You hear about man caves and toy rooms, but I'd never heard of a mum cave," she said. Mom of three carves out tiny 'Mum Cave' underneath the stairs, uses it to 'recharge' 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

My mates, who all happen to also be mums, came that night. Q&A: Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley on sharing Leda 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

His mum, played by the astonishing Valeria De Franciscis, is back too, but this is not exactly a sequel, more an expansion and follow-up. The Salt of Life ? review 2011-02-14T17:17:31Z

Some of my biggest arguments with my mum have been about my weight. United front: breasts without the airbrush 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

My mum instilled in me the proverb: “I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.” Roger Moore: ‘Being eternally known as James Bond has no downside’ 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

My mum had decided that it was time for us to know our progenitor and chose England as a halfway point between Al-Khobar and Brookline. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

This plan reminded me of a recurring event from my childhood: my dad moaning to my mum about the burdensome nature of the garden. Now we await the floodwaters, this time with a peppering of pipes and carrots 2013-01-27T00:04:04Z

And I could drop in the odd recipe, things my mum used to make, or some of my own early triumphs, like chocolate Angel's Delight with a Cadbury's Flake crumbled over the top. The Mary Berry Story; Jonathan Meades: The Joy of Essex – TV review 2013-01-30T07:01:08Z

When someone with such power abuses it, people “just mum up”, said the director. 'Pack of hyenas': how Harvey Weinstein's power fuelled a culture of enablers 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

The dilemma I am a loving mum of three happy, intelligent children in their 20s who are at college. My three children say they never want to see me again | Dear Mariella 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

Kevin Bishop is the officer; Frances Barber is his malevolent old mum. May I Kill U? – review 2013-01-10T21:15:01Z

Apparently, the eponymous Dom was taken into foster care aged eight because, of all her six kids, his mum liked him least, mainly due to his red hair. New band of the day: Dom (No 989) 2011-03-18T19:05:41Z

There was a point when my mum had to come and tell us he might not get better. Rafe Spall: from fat to fit 2013-01-19T09:00:00Z

We knew that Colin wasn't well from the start: the show opened with the sound of him breathing and talking with difficulty, his wife, Mark's mum, fussing and chattering around him like an anxious sparrow. Rewind radio: Bowie and Beyond: A Music Fan's Guide to Berlin; Adam Buxton on David Bowie; Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro; Making News; Messy, Isn't It? The Life and Works of Richard Brautigan – review 2013-04-06T21:50:01Z

Disney CEO Bob Chapek has officially spoken out against Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill after choosing to stay mum about the injurious legislation and receiving backlash from employees, Deadline reported. Bob Chapek finally condemns “Don’t Say Gay” bill, but Disney employees say it's not enough 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z

A young mom who needed some time to herself converted a closet under the stairs into a peaceful "mum cave." Mom of three carves out tiny 'Mum Cave' underneath the stairs, uses it to 'recharge' 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

Jessica relates the legend: her mum was labouring over other authors' books and finally snapped when she was asked to draw Simon the Superior Safety Pin. My famous illustrator parents 2013-05-11T07:00:22Z

I never wanted to meet my birth parents – my mum and dad are my parents. John Thomson: My family values 2013-05-03T11:59:01Z

They are working on two new musicals but are mum on the details. Two gentlemen optimistic about ‘Gentleman’ at Kennedy Center 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

When I told my mum and dad I was moving to Sydney, the first thing they said was: “You stay away from Kings Cross now.” The future of sex work – a photo essay 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

As a boy, every time the moustache and bowler turned up on the TV in my mum's front room, my face would turn to thunder. Bravo Charlie 2010-07-30T11:15:00Z

Two little girls and their hippy mum in 1960s Marrakesh, this book poignantly, perfectly, captures the magic of childhood. Cathy Cassidy's top 10 stories about sisters 2010-09-22T06:55:00Z

“Very violent. I don’t think I even know half the stuff he did. Not to Bonnie. To her mum. But Bonnie and her little sister saw it all.” What 'Big Little Lies' left out from the book ending 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

These include being driven to school by her mum and hearing it, without fail, every morning on the radio. One to watch: Lorde 2013-06-29T23:05:33Z

Photograph: Ken McKay/Rex Features I'm a busy working mum, used to covering serious issues on Radio 4. Matt Cardle: my X Factor crush 2010-12-02T11:06:00Z

If you are bringing your mum on her birthday treat, I’m sorry, but we are not seating you next to Adele. The secrets of a maitre d’: what it’s really like feeding the 1% 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

“I went home and told my mum and auntie that I’d found the man I was going to marry.” How we met: 'Within hours I knew I would marry her' 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

I started and finished it in the long journey to the Lake District in my mums car, and cried, laughed and scared my family all the way there. Pottermore: your experiences 2011-08-16T14:51:48Z

“My mum strongly believed something wasn’t right, that cancer was in the genes.” ‘I was not willing to die for my breasts': the young women opting for mastectomies 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

My mum tells me later, when I am 28 and having therapy, that I was frantic with panic. Floods, fires and a very reggae Christmas: how autism touched my family 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Of course he couldn't have put in Mrs Beethoven, because there wasn't a Mrs Beethoven, unless Millican meant his mum … ladder … Jingling Johnny case! TV review: QI Jingle Bells Christmas edition 2012-12-22T08:00:03Z

My mum and her siblings, scattered around the world, have a WhatsApp group where they share news of their children and grandchildren. The power of six: what I've learned from having five siblings 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

“See you in two hours,” my mum said, and off I went for surgery, another trip up the femoral artery to my brain. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

My mum says, if you've got the body, go for it. Too much to bare: behind the scenes at a lap-dancing club 2012-07-20T21:59:00Z

Another commissionaire explained where the toilets were and my mum told me to wait for her and Auntie Doreen outside the ladies and I went into the gents. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

As a sort of adult now, I obviously can’t help but sympathise much more with my mum. 'I got so sunburnt, I was like a piece of chorizo': comedians on their holidays from hell 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

They don't want to get married and end up with babies hanging off their arms, dead in the eyes like the women at the local swimming baths on mums and toddlers mornings. There's a riot grrrl going on – a classic tour feature from the vaults 2013-01-09T13:10:35Z

Debra Driza At the beginning, she believes she is a normal teenager who lives in Minnesota with her mum, and the death of her supposed father was her only worry. MILA 2.0 by Debra Driza 2013-07-09T08:00:00Z

She joins the older children for cards and chess, while I chat with the other mums. Our big exotic sleepover: a single-parent tour of Egypt 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Or mums, because there are a dozen or more forms and scores of varieties that are variably cute, exotic or simply stunning. The hidden world of exhibition chrysanthemums 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

I was always trying to see my mum. A powerful faith 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

I first felt like an adult when I went to the market without my mum and got everything she wanted. This is 18 Around the World — Through Girls’ Eyes 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

He had a ball in Ibiza, but came back to nothing, living with his mum and wondering what on earth to do next. Rylan Clark on The X Factor, death threats and being seen as a fame-hungry diva 2012-12-16T20:00:00Z

My mum is Polish and I have seen her struggle, seen the negative side to our culture in terms of bigotry. Mia Wasikowska: ‘After a while acting leaves you feeling hollow' 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

So we grew up in this sort of weird society where the dads were looking after the kids and the mums were going to work. Lisa McGee Found it Hard to Say Goodbye to Her ‘Derry Girls’ 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Just like mums, asters are best planted in the spring, but you can buy fully grown plants at nurseries or garden centers in the fall. The very best flowers to plant in the fall 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z

In those months living back at home, I was honest with my mum about my problems for the first time. Confessions of a kleptomaniac 2012-10-10T22:05:00Z

While we were gathering this morning, mum number three was with her mum, chit-chat, chit-chat. A letter to … All the mothers lucky enough to have their own mothers 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Most of the current 49 members are Asian – exhibition mums have deep roots in China and Japan. US flower growers fear bloom is off the hobby 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Another mum looks after her mum who is not well; others miss their mums because they do not live near them. A letter to … All the mothers lucky enough to have their own mothers 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

Maybe it was loyalty to my mum, a fear of upsetting her or raking over some old memories she’d sooner rather forget, but I think about what might have been. Why didn’t I contact my father before it was too late? 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

The other mums stopped talking to me at Little League. Experience: I came out to my husband, then he came out to me 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. John Lydon 2010-07-16T23:02:00Z

What happened with my mum and dad was never really mentioned at home. Why didn’t I contact my father before it was too late? 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

My mum turns the key and sends Dad out into the world. 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'… Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

My mum says things like, "When I'm not here, no one will be able to run your bath." 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Matt Lucas brought his mum into the studio and she read a bit from an old school report; Dawn asked Brian Cox for her horoscope. The Amazing Mavis Staples 2011-08-29T21:55:01Z

And I'm sure mum would have loved any of those. The Darkness's Justin Hawkins: 'Contrary to expectations, you'd never catch me dogging' 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z

Our mum was in a class all by herself. Nat King Cole's widow dies at 89 2012-07-12T11:21:30Z

My mum, the more serious of the pair, has more prominent cheekbones and slightly different teeth. ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

My mum and birth dad split up right after I was born. Macy Gray: My family values 2012-08-03T23:05:03Z

“My mum was calling me from across the playground, so I jumped from the climbing frame and ran over.” Dakota Fanning: ‘I don’t remember people not knowing who I am’ 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

It has to suck when your mum dies, but he handled it well considering what was going on. How we made ... Public Image Ltd's Metal Box 2012-02-13T21:46:01Z

My mum died of skin cancer two years ago. Me and my penis: 100 men reveal all 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

“I used to try to make all the Jewish mums cry, that was the goal,” he said. Troye Sivan Is a New Kind of Pop Star: Here, Queer and Used to It 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

I used to pepper my conversation with anecdotes about my mum. A letter to … All the mothers lucky enough to have their own mothers 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

My mum and I would watch The Clothes Show on a Sunday. What makes perfect family viewing? 2012-07-18T14:23:00Z

Her dad is a bridge teacher, her mum an artist, and to make ends meet she moonlights by holding songwriting workshops in London secondary schools. New band of the day – Hannah Scott (No 1,339) 2012-08-29T08:08:23Z

While my mum was paying him the driver asked me what the prize was. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

I ended up going to a technical college, just to keep my mum and dad happy. Gary Numan: ‘Eye contact is something I find incredibly difficult’ | This much I know 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

Imagine asking your mum to arrange a visit to a sex worker. The future of sex work – a photo essay 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

Women talk to each other differently when they are "being mums". Mothers, enough of the simpering please! 2013-06-29T06:29:01Z

The details are persistently wrong in jarring ways: the lottery is played by post; ageing single mums are addicted to the Telegraph cryptic crossword. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z

I saw them in Brixton recently, my mum bought me tickets. BBC Sound of 2014: Ella Eyre 2014-01-09T08:07:16Z

I'd go along because my mum would be helping out, looking after Karen, so I'd have to be there as well. Karen Woo: a tribute by her brother 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

My mum used to go out and buy stuffed parrots and things like that — she just loved bright, shiny things. Boy George Loves His Deeply Flawed Heroes 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

“A lot of people think X-Ray Spex were a lot more underground than they were. But my mum did have that brush with celebrity,” Bell said. How Poly Styrene Broke the Mold 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Samphire Song by Jill Hucklesby When a teenage girl's mum gets a new job she finally gets her dream - a horse of her own. My top ten: horses in fiction 2013-01-24T09:00:00Z

His other hobby is stalking, killing and scalping attractive young women on the streets of LA, putting their hair on his mannequins, and pretending they're his mum. Maniac – review 2013-03-14T21:59:01Z

I wonder if my mum gave us these stories because she thought they compensated for being given up for adoption. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

Our mum's kept a scrapbook ever since we started playing music” His sister Georgia tries to steer the conversation back on track. Broods: New Zealand's next pop export 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Penelope Cruz headlines as the film’s avenging angel, a hardscrabble mum with a smear of blood at her neck. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

For The King Blues, the internet fills in for mum, dad, teacher and preacher – who have evidently failed to explain the particulars of the birds and the bees. Readers recommend: songs about the internet – results 2013-02-28T14:00:00Z

"Everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable," he said in a recent interview, offering similar pessimism on touring, poetry and his dear old mum. Eminem speaks out in favour of gay marriage 2010-06-18T09:16:00Z

My twin sister and I arrived two months early, weighing three-and-a-half and four pounds respectively; our mum, herself an incredible paediatrician, nursed us back to health. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

The man who is writing a report on music education for the government is here, and there is a multimillionaire donor to the arts, and a high-up from the BBC, among the mums and dads. Gustavo Dudamel electrifies young London musicians 2011-01-28T17:39:18Z

I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching Inspector Gadget, Sharky and George, The Pink Panther and Thundercats, stuff like that. Preacher's Joe Gilgun: 'I don’t want to be a sexy vampire' 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s fascinating that when he set up his own independent production company he called it Pennebaker – his mum’s maiden name. Marlon on Marlon… the Brando tapes 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

For dessert, the choice is yes or no to pudim – an ambrosial creamy flan in caramel sauce – made daily by Freire's mum. Rio's hottest place to eat – the favelas 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

But I think he had to confront that notion because he recognised that his mum was never an angel and his mum wasn’t there for him. Marlon on Marlon… the Brando tapes 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z

"When I was younger he got in between me and my mum and he didn't want me around," Westwood told Reuters. London crowds say farewell to punk pioneer McLaren 2010-04-22T15:50:00Z

By 11, he was hosting a supper club in his mum’s kitchen, cooking “progressive American cuisine”; at 15, he was charging $160 a head for his eight-course tasting menu. ‘It's not about your age, it's about your ideas’: the teen power list 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

My mum always buys the local paper when we break a record. Experience: I am a naked rollercoaster rider 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

Clearly you realised something was developing between them even before your mum knew, or before she wanted to admit to it. My mum and maths tutor are flirting, right under my nose | Mariella Frostrup 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

Our swinging friends were in all sorts of professions – teachers, doctors, bankers, at-home mums. My life in sex: ‘We have rules for swinging: no one cheating on their wives, no one who supports Trump’ 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

She's eloquent on the upheaval of motherhood, and on her anxieties about life as a single mum of one son. Shappi Khorsandi: Moon on a Stick ? review 2010-10-24T21:16:00Z

“When my ex left, I became a single mum who was occasionally a single woman,” she says. Hope and heart-sinks: what it is really like to date online as a woman in your 40s 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

We were both hyper, so I think our mum was pleased we were doing something both physical and supervised. Portrait of the artist: Edward Watson, dancer 2010-03-22T23:00:00Z

Possibly the only other person watching was the mum of countertenor Andrew Watts, who played Ferdinand, the Duchess's barmy twin brother. Last Night's TV: The Making of the Duchess of Malfi and American Dream 2010-12-06T08:00:00Z

The experience of prematurity means that that particular mum is not the one she expected to be. ‘I never knew whether I’d take my two premature babies home’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

“My mum was a great cook, a fantastic cook,” she says. How I fled a bad marriage in Iran for a new life in London 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z

Actually, I'm being a little unfair – Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling's new comedy, starring Sarah Alexander as a likably dippy single mum with a complicated private life, is better than all of the above. TV review: Me and Mrs Jones 2012-10-13T07:00:02Z

"She liked the look of the frame, and started tearing off the paper on the back, and her mum told her to stop," because it might be worth something, Ms. Craner recounted. ArtsBeat: A Possible Renoir Surfaces at a Virginia Flea Market 2012-09-07T19:15:10Z

Our speciality is upmarket mainstream; if your mum wants to see it, we’re going to make a fortune. 'Over one hour everything was cancelled' – how coronavirus devastated the film industry 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

He would bring in extra players, like Leigh Bowery or his mum, but nothing was frivolously done, everything was rigorous. ‘Everything Crossed Over’: Michael Clark’s Cheeky World of Dance 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

My dad sold Formula One memorabilia and my mum made wedding cakes and looked after five kids. Rupert Grint: ‘The line between Ron Weasley and me got thinner with each film’ 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

There were intriguing scenes, nicely interpreted by psychology professor Jay Belsky of Birkbeck, of dads and mums playing, separately, with their toddlers: of others confronting their teens, again separately. World Cup; The Biology of Dads; Budget coverage 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

Breastfeeding is also a sedentary business, and new mums are often too busy – and too exhausted – to find time to exercise. Why the truth about breastfeeding and weight loss is far from the myth 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

It’s the most personal one to me as it references my grandmother Mary, and my mum sang backing vocals on it. Mary McCartney: ‘My mum sang backing vocals on Let It Be’ 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

I can only imagine what my mum – and what Charmian – must have felt. From slappers to Hedda Gabler: the irresistible rise of Sheridan Smith 2013-03-18T18:12:48Z

There is a doppelgänger theme, interestingly like that of his earlier film I Wish, in which two brothers were being raised in different households: with the amiable slacker dad and hardworking worrier mum. Cannes film festival 2013: Like Father, Like Son - first look review 2013-05-18T05:23:40Z

This place used to be known as Nicolson's Cafe or "one of the places where a single mum called Joanne sat in a corner to write some book about a boy wizard". 10 of the best literary haunts in Edinburgh 2011-08-01T09:00:00Z

Two weeks ago, my mum noticed a lump on Edie’s hip. How do I explain death of our cat to my two-year-old? | Eva Wiseman 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

That I need to go and see my mum. TV review: My Life as a Turkey 2011-08-01T21:04:00Z

An industry that claims, always, to be in the doldrums, can still muster headying sums for "mum lit". Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z

At the end of the 1990s, when the dream was finally over, my mum returned to England. Lenin, mum and me – my communist childhood 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

“I suppose that all this is a bit pointless,” my mum mused one day. My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

So you’ll phone your mum, surrounded by a crowd of friends, and tell her that you have some news. 'Don’t pretend to be something you’re not': a letter to my teenage self 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

Lady Bird opens with Lady Bird throwing herself out of the passenger seat of a moving car being driven by her mum. Mother superior: it’s been a great year for on-screen mums 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Missett and other higher-ups are mum on what exactly these will entail, other than some vague references to updated marketing materials. Jazzercise: After 45 years, it’s still here, and it’s still evolving

My mum got me to ask them to get my house scrubbed, too. Experience: I opened an envelope filled with anthrax 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Given that all the characters have unhappy childhoods, Lewis's play could be seen as further proof of Larkin's point about the destructive impact of "your mum and dad". Seven Year Twitch – review 2013-05-28T17:11:53Z

By other parents’ standards I’d always considered myself relatively permissive; I’ve neither the time nor energy to be a helicopter/tiger mum. ‘We’re never going to bed’: children rewrite the house rules 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z

And even Girls’ notoriously abrasive Marnie Michaels could blame her relationship with her selfish mum and her parents’ traumatic divorce for her spiral of bad decisions. Is Madison from Orange Is The New Black the most annoying character on TV? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

We rang the only number we knew by heart: Rae’s mum. Experience: I spent 40 days in an Iraqi prison 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

I remember being confused, aged four, when I got up to find my mum sobbing in front of the television as reports of Diana’s death flashed across the screen. I usually disparage the royals, but Meghan Markle has changed that 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

I was eight years old when my mum bought me this on seven-inch and it was the first pop single I owned. Edwyn Collins: Soundtrack of my life 2011-01-23T00:05:48Z

Teller: For me, my mum says this will always be her favourite movie because she gets to watch her kid play music. Whiplash stars drum up Oscar hopes 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Time Out New York advised its younger readers, "If your rotten mum or dad won't go, I suggest nicking their wallets and buying tickets yourself." RSC's Matilda: the Musical a hit on Broadway 2013-04-12T17:45:08Z

Within minutes of meeting Tennant's band of Scots kiddies we see their lovely mum flying through the air. Who will win the battle of Sunday night TV? 2010-10-08T14:40:00Z

My mum and dad met in Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand, though my mum comes from Lochgelly in Fife, and my dad from Townhead in Glasgow. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

“And show runners. And a brand new thirty year old. And Jon Snow’s mum.” See Emilia Clarke's Game of Thrones Set B-day Party Pictures 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

And even if she had a hunch about spotting fashion's next buzz-worthy star, she insists on keeping mum. Saint Martins' fashion grads can connect the dots 2011-06-29T17:07:10Z

Raw, aggressive and very, very sweaty, Circolumbia is the antidote to all those circus acts of clean-cut, juggling and tumbling young men who are clearly yearning to be taken home to meet your mum. Circolumbia 2010-05-12T21:30:00Z

He wanted to put £1,000 on rather than £500 but my mum wouldn't let him. Little Mix: 'We all look like dirty mingers underneath!' 2012-11-22T16:02:00Z

I told my mum I wanted her to end it. Experience: I skied off a cliff 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Sadly, this is an item not available to today's troubled mums, even at Sure Start centres. Nanny McPhee speaks softly but carries a big stick | David Cox 2010-03-29T09:44:00Z

Some actors brought along feminist activists rather than their partners or mums. Three Billboards triumphs as Time's Up dominates the 2018 Baftas 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

The first mention of you was how you were absent at my birth, with only the nurses and my godmother to support my mum. A letter to … My immature, ignorant and haughty dad with nothing to give 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

Even as I was muttering nonsense, my mum did me the great kindness of ignoring it and trying to convince me that I was perfectly lucid. Emilia Clarke, of “Game of Thrones,” on Surviving Two Life-Threatening Aneurysms 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Encouraging this kind of sexual candor represents a break with the standard couples therapy model, which is often mum on such topics. The new sex therapy: Kink — even infidelity — can rekindle a marriage 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

For months the press reported on the rumors of Dawson's casting, but the studio stayed mum. How Star Wars failed Ahsoka Tano on "The Mandalorian," even beyond the casting controversy 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z

I literally couldn't put it down, seriously at one point my mum actually had to rip it out of my hands and force me outside. North of Nowhere by Liz Kessler - review 2013-03-09T09:00:00Z

After the fact, the usually voluble actors remained mum about the exchange on social media. Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart get handsy and smooch at 'Mr. Holmes' premiere 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Another time, I remember going out with my mum and my grandma was waving at us from the window – suddenly she threw a radio after us, saying we might need it! Family life: My religious grandfather, the Beatles and Gran's Hungarian pancakes 2013-07-06T06:30:10Z

Moose lives on the island of Alcatraz along with his mum, dad, sister... and a whole bunch of convicts. Cathy Cassidy's top 10 feel good books 2012-07-19T11:18:35Z

Related: Tom Hardy: 'I would have sold my mum for crack' Indeed. Mad Max’s Nicholas Hoult on hanging off lorries and channeling Andrex puppies 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Lohan's father, Michael, was also mum on whether Lohan was actually leaving rehab Monday. After latest rehab, more uncertainty for Lohan 2011-01-04T13:25:08Z

Each is hampered in some way by the bizarre ideology that twists the Leeke family out of true: wheelchair-using mum Pauline is only the most obviously disabled. The Friday Gospels by Jenn Ashworth – review 2013-01-18T08:30:01Z

She's a huge supporter and she wants to be involved in every day, which is a nightmare, but it's encouraging to have a mum like that. BBC Sound of 2014: Ella Eyre 2014-01-09T08:07:16Z

Another “mum” role for Walters, but with a seriousness and tenderness that movie screenwriters don’t often let her show. Julie Walters' best film performances – ranked! 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

But my mum and dad did send me supportive texts throughout the day. I married myself 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

My mum was encouraged by the family to attend university, and so she did, pursuing a degree in Caribbean history. Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness' 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

At 25, you wanted more of your mum to help see you through, to when you could really feel grown up.” On millennial grief: ‘I didn’t want to be brave. I just wanted my mum back’ 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

My mum is quite old, and when she was young she had only Sunday best and two or three other outfits. 'Your child is going to experiment': what teenagers really think 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Professional growers do the same for garden mums, as they do to poinsettias to get them to “bloom” in November and December. The hidden world of exhibition chrysanthemums 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Daisy Waugh: 'Women talk to each other differently when they are "being mums". Mothers, enough of the simpering please! 2013-06-29T06:29:01Z

I’m too embarrassed to tell my mum friends. I am in emotional and financial freefall after my husband left me | Dear Mariella 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

My mum has always said that I'd remember the first meal of each holiday more than the holidays themselves. Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food' 2013-01-19T22:00:00Z

Basically, are they a good mum or dad? Is trauma handed down through generations? 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Throughout, the ghost of a long-dissolved nuclear family – mum Shelley, dad Mort and children Ali, Josh and Sarah – haunts the narrative. Battle of the Bastards to San Junipero: what was the best TV episode of 2016? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The last tweet Peaches sent on Twitter was on Sunday, when she posted a photograph of herself as a child and her mother, with the caption: "Me and my mum." Peaches Geldof dies at age 25 2014-04-07T18:02:51Z

I was getting used to the idea of being a mum when, at around 12 weeks, a scan revealed there was no heartbeat. Women without children: ‘I don’t want to be pitied – I’m really happy' 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z

I think it was an indicator that my mum loves books. How to make a Snow Child 2012-02-20T09:08:14Z

Your mum and I hit it off from the moment we met. A letter to … my son, who doesn’t know that I am probably his father 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

Note for mums and dads: please buy all three books at the same time, or your child will be pestering you for hours on end for next one! The Hetty Feather trilogy by Jacqueline Wilson - review 2013-03-19T09:00:00Z

Another part of the book that I liked was the bit after the mum goes off to Spain. Lily Alone by Jacqueline Wilson ? review 2011-03-23T17:25:00Z

“My mum had a lovely life. She was very cherished and loved by her family.” Charlotte Rampling: ‘I am prickly. People who are prickly can’t be hurt any more’ 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

Does Mike ever visit his mum in prison? Tell Me No Lies by Malorie Blackman - review 2013-04-20T17:00:00Z

It was also the first film I shot on my own, without my mum. Maisie Williams on 'How Game of Thrones' Treats Women 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Has there been another treasure-hunting single mum philosopher on the high seas? The original Suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

I’m trying to understand whether the increased paranoia about world events predates his brutish behaviour towards your mum or is a further manifestation of an increasingly troubled mind. My father believes the world is ending – and is abusive to my mother | Mariella Frostrup 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

That's what makes this mum lit, as opposed to chick lit. Mum lit: a chore thing 2011-04-06T19:00:00Z

I saw the taxi driver coming down the path with my mum. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

He was going to be the dad in the video and I was going to be the mum. Robyn feat Snoop Dogg - U Should Know Better (Christian Falk Remix): New music 2013-07-02T06:00:00Z

I think, with each call, my mum was one step closer to accepting her GDR was dead. Lenin, mum and me – my communist childhood 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z

Not long afterwards, my parents divorced and we went to live with our mum in a new house. A letter to… a very special au pair 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

One of my favorite other scenes is the call with Alicia’s mum when she’s putting in the injection because it reminds me of what I would do with my mum or my dad. In ‘Master of None,’ Naomi Ackie Tells a Story ‘I’ve Never Really Seen’ 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

Mutti was quick thinking, but the real heroine was my mum, whose actions probably saved her family. Family life 2013-03-02T07:15:01Z

When we arrived at his home, his mum greeted us with open arms and fed us so much food that we ate like kings for the first time in months. How to travel the world with no money – by people who have done it 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

My mum loved it - I really think she wanted a Partridge family where she could be the lead singer in her kids' band. Whiplash stars drum up Oscar hopes 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

I got gifts from family and friends but my favorite was from my mum. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: The First Time I Recognized My Selfishness 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

Soon Noa’s mum was living in one place in the ashram, his dad somewhere else, and Noa was in the kids’ hut. Growing up in the Wild Wild Country cult: ‘You heard people having sex all the time, like baboons’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

My mum carried on chatting to the driver. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

“I told my mum. But she never talked bad about him. It was brilliant. She has that old-school British-Canadian stoicism. Keep calm, and carry on.” K.D. Lang Doesn’t Have to Indulge Your Constant Cravings 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Living with a bi-polar mum and a FBI agent for a dad, she often finds herself being the parent of her younger brother Jared. Unravelling by Elizabeth Norris - review 2013-01-09T15:00:00Z

This is going to be here for 20 years, so how do we manage those years to enjoy my kids, and my mum before she leaves us?” I don't know how he does it! Meet the new superdads 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z

These are rescheduled dates: last time, he cancelled when his mum was ill. This week's new live music 2011-01-01T00:05:40Z

As the story involved a mum, dad, sister and brother she kept relating it to herself saying mum let's read your car book! Mum's Cronky Car by Anita Pouroulis - review 2012-11-17T12:00:00Z

Her parents' marriage was happy, though she paints her dad as impossibly handsome and her mum as a doormat with a core of inner steel. Girl Least Likely To: 30 Years of Fashion, Fasting and Fleet Street by Liz Jones – review 2013-07-10T14:00:01Z

About later relationships and struggles, Mills remains mostly mum for, as the title suggests, this is the story of a girl — a girl for whom Disney Studios represented “home.” Review | Hayley Mills became a Disney darling at 12. Her new memoir recalls how it went from there. 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Husseini, who also works in journalism, is not the sort of artist who stays mum about his interests and references. Review | In the galleries: Artist explores the dissonance between humanity and the world 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

It's the mirror-image mum and dad she discovers at the far end of a secret hallway in their apartment block. Fiction's best dysfunctional families 2013-06-06T10:44:02Z

In a way my mum and I loved it, the story of me. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

By the time my mum injected the cortisone vial, I was slipping into darkness. Experience: my family’s hypochondria saved my life 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

But this kid at the end of the lesson said, 'You ought to send that story to my mum.' Andy Mulligan's school rules 2011-08-05T15:34:00Z

"I saw my mum in her underwear once when I was like 11. I can't shake the image from my brain." Britney Spears hitches a ride for Corden's Carpool Karaoke 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

But get this: little Sunshine, the foetus, responds more – in terms of increased heartbeat – to Richard's voice than he does to mum Alice's. The Biology of Dads and Mongrels and Special 1 TV 2010-06-23T07:00:00Z

My mum strapped me to her back to walk home, and all the windows were taped and boarded up. julia styles actor interview 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

For many people, the thought of an origin story written by their mum is not entirely appealing. Will Ivana Trump raise hell with her book on bringing up the president’s babies? 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

When I was in 4th or 5th grade, I remember being shoved in a staircase at school by my friend's mum, Mrs Schmidt. Representation heals: How watching K-dramas lifted the weight of white supremacy and freed my tongue 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

My mum and I were staying alongside half a dozen other people, and their buddies, awaiting surgery or at various stages of recovery. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

“In his immortal words,” Mr. Hunnam recalled, “he said to my mum, ‘Look, if I’m not going to be there to teach my sons to be men, then poverty will teach them to be men.’” Charlie Hunnam: Pushy When It Counts (Picky, Too) 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Home life is no better: Adam has OCD and a violent dad, and Eve's mum is dying of lung cancer, something that she tries to forget in a haze of drugs and one-night stands. Apples 2010-06-23T21:31:00Z

My mum had me when she was pretty young. Venus X: 'I don't like pretending to be stupid' 2012-06-09T23:05:07Z

My mum would often recount hilarious tales of hanging around with Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones. The Darkness's Justin Hawkins: 'Contrary to expectations, you'd never catch me dogging' 2012-08-23T19:30:00Z

Last year around this time, I'd been worrying about what my mum and dad would make of Red Dust Road, the memoir I'd just finished writing about tracing my birth parents. How a Mancunian taxi driver taught me the true meaning of friendship 2010-12-26T00:05:09Z

Clothes came from charity shops, or your mum's bottom drawer. Acceptable in the 80s 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z

Indoors, a “second committee”, largely of women and children, continued the work: Danny’s mum, his two sisters and children he had known. ‘It was an incredibly enriching day’: the families taking control of death 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

“That’s my lovely mum,” she says, pointing to a black and white picture of a determined young girl with a Louise Brooks bob, holding a ballerina pose. Last orders: what do our wills say about us? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Over several years my dad regularly and loudly threatened to kill himself if my mum left him, he had extreme mood swings, and during these episodes he often confided in me about their sex life. My father’s terrible behaviour means I can’t be intimate with men | Dear Mariella 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z

“Brooklyn was such a personal story for me – it was my mum’s story and it was my story to some extent.” Brooklyn producers: 'A lot of the untold stories are female' 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z

I loved my mum, I hated our house; I couldn't wait for a room of my own, yet now I see how, though I escaped, so much of her remains with me. Grayson Perry's tapestries: weaving class and taste 2013-06-08T08:00:41Z

At that time, my mum didn't even have a job, or a house. Scotland should not be wasting time on blaming the English any more 2012-12-21T19:00:00Z

She struggled as a single mum, working in soap operas and on and off Broadway. Michael Douglas: ‘Kirk was film star first, father second’ 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

My mum thinks it’s because I forgot to thank you for a gift. A letter to … My immature, ignorant and haughty dad with nothing to give 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

But, I would posit that much like the study suggests, neither my dad nor I was going to become my mum’s closest confidante. ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

I didn’t even know what a carvery was until three years ago, when my mum mentioned it to me. Meet the regulars: what makes people want to eat in the same place every day? 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

She says that what happened to her mum is not uncommon. How to spot age-related macular degeneration 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The child of Marcel Marceau and Norman Bates would keep mum. Style Invitational Week 1225: The Ideas of March 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Whenever he utters a word, the tree loses a leaf and brings him closer to death — so he has to keep mum. Think ‘The Emoji Movie’ Got Bad Reviews? Check Out These Stinkers. 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

I love it when I hear my children role-playing mums and dads, and the mum says, “I’m just off to do an Ironman.” 'Toddler twins, a demanding job... why not take on an Ironman?' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

They were continuing with their activi­ties and talked about their mum when they wanted. How do you tell your children you have cancer? 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

I am the partner of a father whose 11-year-old daughter wants to live with us and visit her mum every second weekend. My stepdaughter wants to live with us but her mother is blocking the way | Mariella Frostrup 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

My mum told me not to scream but to save my energy for when I needed to push. Pushed to the limit: six birth stories from around the world 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

I’ll never forget the first time I saw a naked woman who wasn’t my mum. Let's get physical: how women's sport can conquer body image 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

“I’m the surgeon who just operated on your mum. Are you alone?” My mum only had a few months to live. So we rented a van and took a road trip 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

When I see posts on his Facebook wall from a woman asking him for money so she can fly to meet him, I’ll call my mum to discuss who should have the conversation about scammers. My brother is 47 and can't get a girlfriend – could I help? 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

Now I use either the new digital camera my mum bought me when I had my daughter, or my iPhone. Snap happy 2013-05-19T18:30:00Z

She can't remember much else but she was gone for two weeks: "My mum was planning my funeral." Rewind radio: Victoria Derbyshire; Tony Livesey – review 2013-03-09T22:50:01Z

There’s Gerhard’s room too – a young soldier writing letters to his mum. On Denmark's Jutland coast an elegant new museum counters a Nazi monolith 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

I ask Starr what her mum thought about the sex change. Just don't call it a freak show 2010-04-30T23:07:00Z

I brought my mum, father, sister and grandparents to the London film festival premiere in Leicester Square. Dev Patel: ‘I’m just this guy from Rayners Lane – how the hell did this happen?’ 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

The clip has had more than a million views, compared with the smiling video’s 12, which is presumably just my mum watching it and then showing it to her friends. People hate my video about vegans... is this what it feels like to be Piers Morgan? 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

He's the first man her friends have approved of – "Even my mum says he's the one" – and she tells me several times, with irrepressible pride, that her youngest two call him Dad. Kerry Katona: 'Sometimes I think I attract drama' 2013-07-06T08:00:00Z

Motherhood is one of the most taxing responsibilities any woman can be faced with, and even the most saintly real-life mum can be driven to distraction by sleep deprivation, financial worries and wilful toddlers. Mothers of invention: why Hollywood always returns to mum-horror 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

And everywhere there is the sound of single-syllable words, such as other people's "mums" or the soldier "boys" who are tragically killed in battle, which signal our everlasting child-status. The war against clich? has failed 2011-01-07T12:51:33Z

Her mum wasn't terribly pleased about the way that came across. Laura Mvula: meet the world's least likely pop star 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z

But you quickly got drawn into this beautifully naive world Chris had created, where Frank's blind ambition for fame contrasted markedly with his mundane daily duties – "shopping for me mum" and so on. I can't believe Frank's gone 2010-06-22T08:45:00Z

"Is that all you do?" she inquires repeatedly, like a mum not au fait with nightlife. Scissor Sisters; Gossip ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:04Z

My mum passed away when I was 12, so I think Dad was all for me being distracted. | Bella Heathcote 2012-10-17T19:29:27Z

Me and my foster mum are both very stubborn and we were like, “Let’s do this.” My eating disorder made me feel trapped in a box, but I found a way out 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Before adding the pumpkins, fill your container with colorful autumn favorites such as mums, marigolds, crotons, and ivy. Pint-Size Pumpkins & Blooms 2010-10-06T14:55:00Z

Similarly, my aunty’s partners have, I believe, accepted my mum. ‘She was like a second mother’: growing up with my mum and her identical twin 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

My mum and Aunty Cheryl had been scouring the dress shops of London on my behalf and found me a white silk sleeveless jumpsuit, neither a dress nor a suit but totally “me”. Our gay wedding: ‘Does one of us have to play the groom?’ 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

I’m 43 and still live with my mum and dad. ‘I don’t know who I am without it’: the truth about long-term antidepressant use 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

A bookish nine-year-old moves house because her uptight mum demands that she get into the catchment area of a good school. Judd Apatow's Love and the return of Better Call Saul – new to Netflix in February 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Though they appeared together on the Grammy stage to accept the award, both have remained publicly mum about the source of their disagreement and their plans. ArtsBeat: New Album From the Civil Wars 2013-05-01T18:47:41Z

I never wanted to do period, I was terrified of period because I am not trained, I haven't been to drama school, my mum is Brazilian. Heathcliff is black in UK remake of Bronte's novel 2011-09-06T16:23:21Z

At the same time, I grew up in church and again my mum used to read the Bible with me. BBC Sound Of 2015: George The Poet 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

Another new mum Hannah Richardson agreed the online baby attacks were likely an extension of the internet age in which people could say horrible things online anonymously that they wouldn’t say in person. Voting in cute baby contest halted after parents' snide comments about rivals 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

True, although being brought up in Manchester by his mum, he knew about the scene. Why we are watching… Nico Mirallegro 2013-06-16T07:00:03Z

My mum had an old edition, without any pictures, just a painting on the cover. The best cookbooks of all time, as chosen by the experts 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Her mum rests a hand gently on her hip. Cure - a short story 2011-07-11T16:03:55Z

My mum was quite poor and my dad was rich. Tame Impala: a trip inside the head of main man Kevin Parker 2012-10-05T23:03:00Z

There is some subtlety in the idea that the raging, life-hating Kieran lives in secret terror of his mum, and that Gerald's partner is troubled by the amounts of money her husband is making. Fear – theatre review 2012-06-26T18:00:01Z

Yes, Weinstein’s brother, Bob, the company’s co-founder, kept mum beyond all reason — even after Harvey had punched him in the face. ‘She Said’ Recounts How Two Times Reporters Broke the Harvey Weinstein Story 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

Yet it is to pop’s frosty embrace that he must return after his mum dies abruptly. The Judge review: jury in, gavel out on Robert Downey Jr courtroom drama 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

I would just sing and sing, because I wanted to be strong for my mum. Gloria Estefan: My family values 2013-07-12T12:00:01Z

"I never felt this sad when my mum and dad went," says Pat. TV review: Wonderland: Mad Cats and Englishwomen 2010-10-28T07:00:00Z

“I sent my mum the Rocks trailer – and she just called me to tell me to wash the dishes.” Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

My mum had gone mad when she saw the state of my new suit. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

The book opens with a T-shirt with the words “Vogue love you mum.” Carine Roitfeld Ends Paris Season with a Vampire Party 2011-10-06T17:19:17Z

My grandparents liked singing, and my mum is a teacher and choir conductor. From Soweto song to Porgy and Bess 2012-07-16T10:23:45Z

"My mum's always brought me up on Manchester music," he says. Spike Island: 'It's not about the Stone Roses, it's about loving the Stone Roses' 2013-06-04T19:00:01Z

Michael has a list of 17 exes, but his autism means he finds it hard to form relationships, and Sarah has to have help from her mum to communicate after a stroke. TV highlights 08/01/2013 2013-01-07T20:00:02Z

I’m juggling a lot: being a mum, being a wife, being in the studio every day. Victoria Beckham: ‘I guess it was a sign of insecurity, wearing very tight clothes’ 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

But my mum's a bit nervous, given the subject matter. Britain's cultural debutantes 2011-01-16T00:04:11Z

I'm trying to bring my mum to London now to visit; she's at the embassy today. Marina Poplavskaya: 'I am a person of extraordinary ability' 2011-04-09T23:05:35Z

My poor mum tried to put a brave face on it: “Let’s go home and get a good fun sleep!” 'I got so sunburnt, I was like a piece of chorizo': comedians on their holidays from hell 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z

Earlier this winter my mum was going to Edinburgh. TV review: The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track 2013-02-13T07:00:09Z

She was my mum and she gave birth to me. Those words in that film when Joseph's saying, 'I thought she was dumb, but she wasn't. Paddy Considine: 'I'm trying to make sense of a lot of things' 2011-02-03T23:00:01Z

We were very close when mum was here. Mum has died, dad is weak… our family is falling apart 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

My mum and dad returned to Scotland after spending their first years of married life in New Zealand. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

As even his mum says, "I'm very lucky to have you, 'cos you're so boring." Tonight's TV highlights: Eddie Stobart: Trucks and Trailers 2010-09-23T23:05:00Z

If there is one hero in this tragic event, it is my mum. My dad’s murder didn’t break me 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

I sat between my mum and my Auntie Doreen reading the names of the Lord Mayors, wishing the whole thing was over. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

“The school mums tend to laugh when they hear about our beauty regimes, but I just joke and tell them we are fabulous,” Skidmore joked. Mom defends spending over $1G a month at beauty salon with 3 daughters: 'We are fabulous' 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

"He had lots of blond hair.""Just like his mum." Fancy dress by Kate Horsley 2010-12-26T00:05:12Z

Today, Aideen is, indeed, a mum – to Jack, a two-year-old bundle of energy who’s at nursery when I visit her at home in Birmingham. ‘No one expects people with disabilities to have a family’ 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

Plunging his mum or dad into darkness during a private moment was great fun. Obsessions and Compulsions at the Park Avenue Armory 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

But he was curiously mum on Tuesday night, when the San Francisco Symphony opened a series of four American Mavericks programs at Carnegie Hall. Music Review: San Francisco Symphony?s American Mavericks Series 2012-03-29T21:34:57Z

My mum tracked him down with the help of the Salvation Army. Family life 2013-06-15T06:15:01Z

This was before mum met Bill the Baboon and dad met Carrie. The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson - review 2011-08-25T08:00:00Z

For me, with my mum and my family and my upbringing … it was heaven. will.i.am: 'The Queen reminds me of my grandma' 2012-06-28T19:30:00Z

Finally, you really shouldn’t have to suggest your partner calls his mum. My mother-in-law should apologise to me | Mariella Frostrup 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

Despite a few potholes, the daisy mums and stardust roses emerged unscathed at the second installation site, in Fort Greene. A Long Night of ‘Flower Flashing’ With Lewis Miller 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z

I have grandsons now, and they’re all fully YouTube conversant, but it’s not that thing of getting home from school and it’s there, and mum might come in and watch, too. 'All the hood rats would jam with us': Grandmaster Flash, AJ Tracey and other artists on the generation gap 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

His mum has been travelling with him ever since. Bradley Cooper: boy to man 2011-03-22T21:30:00Z

“Very disappointing and you're just adding to the unnecessary pressure from social media for new mums to look like yourself in just a few weeks after birth.” Kayla Itsines slammed for 'comeback' post-pregnancy workout photo 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

“Unfortunately my birth mum has passed away so I am unable to find out exactly what happened and why.” Baby abandoned at Gatwick Airport finds birth parents 33 years later 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

In other words, she seems to be wary that the move would be read as an endorsement of one administration over another, and Parton is famously mum when it comes to politics. Yes, Dolly Parton really did turn down the presidential medal of freedom (twice) – here’s why 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Charles Dickens burned his, Ringo Starr begged for no more, and the footballer Joe Hart gets his mum to answer his. The celebrities who reply to every letter 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

I was always into music and my mum used to talk me through a lot of lyrics. BBC Sound Of 2015: George The Poet 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

In the rock era, they’ve resurfaced on career revival albums by desperate types such as Rod Stewart and McCartney’s old pal, Ringo Starr, whose “Sentimental Journey” was recorded to please his mum in 1970. Album review: Paul McCartney, 'Kisses on the Bottom' 2012-02-06T19:14:00Z

Perhaps with the show's mission to give one "deserving" mum a slice of her "Hollywood dream". Hollywood Me; Quick Cuts – TV review 2013-06-20T05:59:01Z

It didn’t bother me at the time – I think my mum was more upset than I was. Experience: IVF gave me a heart attack 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

He ticked the last entry on his mum's list, number 6, Milk and Cookies. It's All Right I Have a List That Helps to Make Everything Clear and It's Real Easy to Follow by Ian Beck - short story 2012-11-14T12:09:04Z

My dad was so busy, as was our mum. Shappi Khorsandi: the last laugh 2011-08-10T20:30:02Z

Though Starbucks is staying mum on the matter, rumors are swirling that the legendary Pumpkin Spice Latte drink will soon triumphantly return to menus everywhere. Starbucks stays quiet on Pumpkin Spice Latte's 2019 release date 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

My dad used to get in trouble with my mum for playing me Frank Zappa's Have I Offended Someone? Six Songs of Me: Beth Jeans Houghton 2012-08-20T15:20:35Z

Also on the case is a civilian cop, played by Theron, a lonely single mum who has been humiliated after a calamitious affair with her married boss. Charlize Theron's 20 best film roles – ranked! 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

He was really nice and got on well with my mum! Jessie Ware: stars of 2012 2012-11-24T14:18:01Z

It was touching to hear about his lovely mum whom he adores. Blind date: ‘She has a gap in her teeth which is charming, and a bit boho’ 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

My mum and dad couldn't afford piano lessons because they were five shillings a pop. Critic's comedy choice 2011: Lenny Henry on tour 2011-01-03T07:59:01Z

And the fact is you want to be a mum at the age when you have to give the best of yourself as a chef – so it’s difficult to manage. How hard is it to be a chef and a mother with young children? 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

When Julie is pitted against a gang of so-called “alpha mums”, the alphas pour scorn over her for working. Bad moms: why messy motherhood is finally being accepted on screen 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

Outside one deli, a local mum with cropped hair slides in through the front door in a camel-coloured overcoat. Annette Bening: ‘Women don’t have to do everything’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

“No matter what it is, I go to to mum.” This is 18 Around the World — Through Girls’ Eyes 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

By the time we changed planes in Toronto, I was flagging and mum was too, under the weight of our hand luggage. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Though Gordon began writing essays for various publications, and Nanjiani was regularly onstage, the two stayed mum about their ordeal, too. How ‘The Big Sick’ makes arranged marriages, Muslim families and a coma perfect rom-com material 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

“We’re often together at weekends, and he’s there now with his mum and her in my place. It’s all frustratingly amicable from an outsider’s point of view, but really blissful to be in.” Sienna Miller: 'I feel relatively immune to bitchy criticism now' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

"Kung fu, karate, what's the difference?" asks the Kid's mum at one point. High kicks, low tension 2010-06-17T23:14:00Z

As she came under the bridge my mum opened a box and we started to drop rose petals on her. Bristol marks 40th anniversary of SS Great Britain's return 2010-07-19T19:00:00Z

According to surveys for Mumsnet and Women’s Hour released on Monday, working mums spend an average of 10 hours a week on household chores, while men chip in with just five hours a week. Who does the housework? Five Guardian writers reveal all 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

I am approaching 40 and acutely aware of the passing of time, but only in the sense that it is finite – I lost my mum to cancer when she was 45. My looks: the unlikely sex symbols 2012-07-27T21:59:00Z

However, if, as your mum says, it proves to be an addiction that one of them is pursuing and the other condoning your chances of a positive outcome are slim. My stepdad won’t stop watching porn in our house | Mariella Frostrup 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

We’ve been together six years, and we’re living with my mum while we save up to buy a place: going to the Carvery is a way of getting some time for ourselves. Meet the regulars: what makes people want to eat in the same place every day? 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

My mum went a bit red and looked quite cross but she and my Auntie Doreen took them off and put them under their seats. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

I took it on the chin, but I thought, “I’m a mum, I went through the process, too. Why does my age matter?” Pushed to the limit: six birth stories from around the world 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

On 4 December, my mum came with us to the hospital and managed to keep up a steady patter about her cycling, her knitting and the roadworks on the A14 while we waited. My four miscarriages: why is losing a pregnancy so shrouded in mystery? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, Bell said with conviction, “All my mum wanted, musically and artistically, was to be taken seriously.” How Poly Styrene Broke the Mold 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

Throughout the steady stream of duets is the intermittent appearance of an older woman as “mum”; on Wednesday, the guest artist was Janet O’Connell, but the performer — a local volunteer — changes each night. Dance Review: Mimulus Cia de Dança Presents ‘Dolores’ at the Joyce 2014-02-28T22:41:17Z

Quite a few of the prizewinners were wearing their school uniforms but my mum had wanted me to wear my best suit. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

Plus, my mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. Chloe Sevigny 2010-10-02T23:04:00Z

He left my mum, my younger brother and me for a life in London with a trolley-bus conductor. Family life 2013-06-15T06:15:01Z

My mum got to hold the baby for the first time last week. A letter to … All the mothers lucky enough to have their own mothers 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

“A year off was my birthday present to myself. I didn’t actually act or write. I was just a mum,” she is quoted as saying. The mom wars’ newest casualty: Emma Thompson 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

“My mum looked at me in the shop and said: ‘You seem so unhappy.’” ‘Everyone thought I was mad’: how to make a life-changing decision – and stick to it 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

After "Hometown Glory" she sings "Lovesong", a cover of the Cure in tribute to her mum and a nod to that early gig they went to. The girl with the mighty mouth 2011-03-27T00:02:01Z

Miles's investigations began with Constantine, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, who sent his ancient mum, Empress Helena, to the Holy Land to find conclusive proof of the New Testament story. Archaeology: A Secret History; Alex Polizzi: The Fizer Returns – TV review 2013-05-01T06:00:13Z

She grew up in a family of four kids, with a mum working in university administration, who had split up from her dad and remarried. Maisie Williams: ‘I was covered in blood and gnawing on pizza’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

While 2017 has been an awful year for women in film in most respects, it has thrown up a riot – or whatever the collective noun for mums ought to be – of complex on-screen mothers. Mother superior: it’s been a great year for on-screen mums 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

His stepmother Gloria died from stomach cancer when he was 13, and his mum was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2002. Shane Jacobson: 'I feel I’ve got to constantly prove myself' 2013-07-26T04:43:04Z

"The code red is there to stop me being too helpful, and I can't stop being too helpful by being more helpful," he bumbled at his mum, in a script packed tight with superb lines. Cabin Pressure; In Concert: a week in radio 2013-01-10T18:00:01Z

When her mum, struggling with mental health issues, takes off, Rocks is left to look after her little brother – and fears they’ll be taken into care and separated if anyone finds out. Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

So even back in 1990 when the extent of his creepiness was not known, no one – no one – would go to this tracksuited 64-year-old who lived with his mum to ask for marital guidance. Sick of US news? Don't worry: there are lots of other things to discuss 2012-11-06T16:10:59Z

At four, she gravely informed her mum, "God's made a mistake". TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 19-23 November 2012-11-19T07:00:00Z

"It's almost deliberate the extent to which they blank it out," says Thorn, "because it isn't what they want their mum to be." Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt: Everything but the grief 2010-05-26T20:45:00Z

"If you're a mum, a dad, a loved one, you want to worry about the biggest threat," she says. Suicide and silence: why depressed men are dying for somebody to talk to 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

My mum lives in Cape Cod and is known as Granny America. Huey Morgan 2013-03-01T13:00:01Z

She's even made good enough friends to give a few of the ladies our address, which my mum had written down for her. Ten airport horror stories that will make you never want to fly again 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

My mum's not violent, and my dad is a really sweet, kind man. Dark star: Julia Davis 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z

He'd shown them to his mum and had promised her that he would not show them to anyone else apart from the people – family members, old girlfriends – to whom they were addressed. What Danny Boyle did next 2010-12-05T00:04:00Z

My friends still don't find me funny; my mum still says, 'This guy's not funny.' South Africa's new comedians find a nation eager for laughs 2013-01-04T13:02:55Z

Their son Dhani, dad’s spitting image, reads George’s letters to his mum. Review of Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary 2011-10-17T18:00:00Z

People often told them that their mum was in heaven, and they accepted this. ‘There will be an afterwards’: how a mother prepared her sons for her death 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

My mum kept going like a trouper for two years to get everyone else through it, and then it hit her like a tsunami. A letter to ... the man who caused my sister’s death 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z

Her mum and dad loved her songs, even the ripe ones about adolescent sexual longing. The Enduring, Incandescent Power of Kate Bush 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

I loved her mum, dramatic and highly polished, shouting: "Darling, keep going, you laugh in the face of pain!" as her daughter struggles through the 11-mile mark on a marathon. Running With the Pack by Mark Rowlands; Running Like a Girl by Alexandra Heminsley – review 2013-03-17T00:05:32Z

But, he was met with backlash and decided to stay mum about such issues. “The Secrets of Hillsong”: The 8 major bombshells from FX's new Hillsong Church docuseries 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z

I was about 10, and my mum just left it in my bedroom, unannounced. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

"My mum's here today," she says later, just after simulating sex with the stage. Lovebox – review 2012-06-18T12:57:51Z

It took about five YouTube videos, some help from mum and a lot of swearing before I eventually got there. Secrets of a casual seamstress: the joy of making your own clothes 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

My mum taught me manners, morals and kindness. Susan Boyle: this much I know 2012-12-08T19:00:01Z

Nothing wrong with that, except he's also a soft rock fan who bludgeons neighbours, specifically 20-year-old mum Jess, with the sounds of Smooth FM. TV highlights 16/08/2012 2012-08-15T19:00:03Z

Guy's mum asks him, about the way the hotel function room has been done for the big meal. TV review: My Child's Big Fat Birthday 2010-07-20T06:59:00Z

Once I brought home a mastiff puppy and told my mum it was a small breed dog. One to watch: Sunday Girl 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z

“When he died, my dad hadn’t saved money, and I guess my mum didn’t have any. So they, the band, very kindly... ‘Trust fund’ doesn’t sound right at all. Naomi Watts: ‘My soul was being destroyed’ 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

“I sadly lost my mum a few years ago and my dad is a man’s man and took my ex’s side.” ‘I wish I’d told Dad how much I hated him’ – when children ditch their parents 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

The bullying grew so bad Roth’s mum moved him to Croydon Tech. Tim Roth: ‘As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through' 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

They’ve been mum on how the franchise will resume after the conclusion of “No Time to Die” except to stay that it will be a clean slate. About that ‘No Time to Die’ ending… 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

When my mum arrived, she stood with her hands on her hips and said, “What have you two been up to?” Experience: I had a stroke while I was pregnant 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

He came home from a picnic one day to find that his deluded mum had been locked away, and his dad had skedaddled. TV review: The Queen's Mother in Law; Bad Education; Gates 2012-08-21T21:35:01Z

He and my mum just travelled, all around Australia. Danny DeVito: I still miss my father 2012-06-15T23:05:18Z

A few days later I told my mum that I was feeling uncomfortable down there. Pushed to the limit: six birth stories from around the world 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

You are much younger than I am, a teenage mum, perhaps 15 years old. A letter to … The teenage mother I wish I’d defended in hospital 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

Instead, it’s left to the hog farmer, Tim Drewe, to figure out that his missus — the girl’s onetime adoptive mum — has run off with the child. ‘Downton Abbey’ Season 6, Episode 2: Of Pearls and Swine 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

Her mum, Lyly, got together with a new partner and life at home became a little more chaotic: parties at night, arguments among the family. ‘Intimate terrorism’: how an abusive relationship led a young woman to kill her partner 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

I remember begging my mum to get this album. Musicians and their obsessions 2010-12-09T21:46:00Z

Photograph: Thomas Butler for the Guardian My mum taught me to drive when I was 17. TV's unsung heroes 2010-10-01T23:03:00Z

I loved the wordless sequence in which Elia and his mum watch TV together, and he persistently tries to take her hand, and she brushes it away, as if to say "don't be so soppy!" Film review: The Time That Remains 2010-05-27T21:25:00Z

Marvel is keeping mum about the schedule, and is probably waiting until San Diego Comic-Con or the D23 Expo in the summertime to reveal solid dates. After Endgame: what's next for the Marvel Cinematic Universe? 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

About his own age, Mr. Klein is mum. The Photographer and Auteur Steven Klein Loves to Shock, but Surreptitiously 2011-11-24T10:45:04Z

My mum announces, “Your dad and I are getting divorced and I am moving in with Bob. Your brothers have known since before Christmas.” When parents split up – your stories 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Speaking at the event, Mercy James drew applause and ululation from the crowd after saying: "Many kids and many lives will be saved. Thank you mum, you're the bomb." Malawi hails Madonna's 'motherly spirit' at opening of new hospital 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

I could have been a professional musician but mum made me become a teacher/doctor/lawyer. Top 10 middle-class comedians: in condescending order 2010-04-12T12:03:00Z

She was my mum’s best friend: the giver of the ceremonial birthday £5 note and bestower of strange charity-shop finds. When my mother died, I inherited her best friend – and she became family 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

I grew up in a nuclear household: mum, dad, son, daughter. From the grime MC to the model: five men on what masculinity means to them 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

My mum’s very shy, and she kind of builds barriers. Luis Felber Has Never Seen ‘Girls’ 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z