Pippa's blog

I write this from a speeding TGV train that is taking me through the French countryside between Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and Rennes, on a journey to the small village of Brignogan where I will be working for a week before heading to the Dinard Festival of British Film. I am alone. There are no children calling my name, no one else to worry about. I am just me.

We had another fabulous Make Date on twitter last night, chatting about what it really means to be a supermum, and making Supermum Postcards to send to mums who deserve to know how Super they really are. You can read a storify of our chat below.

This Wednesday from 8.30 - 9.30pm BST (world times here) join us on twitter using #somum to chat with other mums, get creative, find your inner SUPERMUM, and enter a draw to win an amazing pile of goodies for you!

It's not often we feel super at being a mum, or indeed a grandmum.

As I walked through the park today listening to birdsong and admiring the huge trees dappling morning sun on the wet grass, I was struck by a thought.

All trees are beautiful.

The leafy ones, the stumpy ones, the spindly ones, the droopy ones, the young ones, the old ones. In fact the old ones are possibly the most beautiful of all.

For our latest Mums' Make Date we made a Couch Coach, and imagined having our very own personal coaches. We shared our best advice for mums, our favourite quotes, and what we'd most like to hear ourselves.

We're having another marvellous #somum Mums’ Make Date from 8.30 - 9.30pm BST (world times here) on Wednesday 22 August. We’ll be chatting and colouring in our words... On twitter.

Last 'make date' we doodled. This time we squidged our very own lovable mum-bodies in playdough, plasticine and clay. Mums came together on twitter to talk about our bodies and share photos of the bits we'd love to love more. Read some of our best bits below..

You and your mum-body are amazing. So come join us for a #somum Mums’ Make Date from 8.30 - 9.30pm BST (world times here) on 25 July! We’ll be chatting and sculpting. Well, more like squidging – there’s no pressure to be any good at it at all.

Emma at The Real Supermum shares her struggle with body image for our sixth Love Mum Body post. It's a moving example of the impact that society's body expectations can have on us and our families as we strive to be a 'good mother'. Thank you for your openness and honesty.

Come join a Mums’ Make Date: share how you feel about your mum-body and join in our Love Mum Body activity – in Toronto, on twitter, or host your own!

Have you been inspired by all the amazing Love Mum Body guest posts so far? Wondered about sharing a picture, but it’s just too scary? Well here’s an idea. Jump in with a gang of mums and see what happens. You might have a go, you might not, but you’ll never know unless you try…