Mieka Smiles

Local Matters

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ONCE upon a time, long before the days of TikTok brain rot, lived online message boards.

In fact, wind the clock back a decade or so and, as a knackered mum of two little ones, rather than venting my spleen here, you could have found me there, doing my level best to survive an endless avalanche of nappy changing and tantrums. Life could be quite solitary, frantically Googling each weird new toddler rash, and Mumsnet was a constant source of solace.