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Kids or no kids, we all love the school holidays yeah? I mean, what’s not to love? Long warm days, open roads, days packed with insta-worthy activities with polite, respectful, quiet children [clears throat].

Total bollocks!

One evening after school when I was 15, a film crew were positioned at the end of my lane, so I decided to take my dog for a walk and go and watch the filming. Not much else happened in my sleepy village so it was all quite exciting. I joined a group of people all watching and a man in his 50s started talking to me. At first I didn’t think it was anything to be concerned with, but as he bent down to pet my dog he made a comment about my legs that left me cold.

It’s a mizzly* Tuesday evening. Nothing planned. Daughter is in bed, husband is out and it’s cold and dark outside. From the moment the child woke up, I’ve spent all day on what feels like a dizzying hamster wheel. Meetings, emails, social media, food shopping, jobs around the house, arranging more meetings, planning stuff, sending overdue messages, making lists, washing clothes, wiping stuff and lots of apologizing (mostly things that I have forgotten to do or didn’t do very well in the first place). And have I achieved anything? No, not really.

Lucy and I have been developing Halto for around 5 years in order to bring it to market. When we started, Lucy had a young baby and I became pregnant not long after. As such we have been on this journey whilst dragging 2 small people along for the ride and it has meant the way we run the business couldn’t be the stereotypical 9-5. In fact, quite the opposite.