Sonya Cisco

Sonya Cisco is a 42 year old mum of three from Dorset. She spent 15 years playing in bands at various festivals and insalubrious locations throughout Britain and Europe. These days she is more of a home bod hence the title of her blog 'The Ramblings of a Formerly Rock'n'Roll Mum' , but she can still be persuaded to strap that bass guitar back on for special occasions. Has an opinion on everything, but always open to discussion. Likes biscuits a little bit too much.

Politics Round-up; A mixed bag.

A variety of different topics got you talking this month, making it hard to pick a general theme for this round-up, so I haven’t, instead here are snippets from the …

Politics Round-up: Elections, books and when to have a baby

I will start with the big political story of the past month, the recent elections which saw UKIP do well both in local council and European elections. Swazi from Chocolate …

Politics Round-up: Young voters & food poverty

My daughter turns 18 in three months time, just a little too young to vote in the European and Local elections at the end of this month. Mary from Keynko‘s …

Politics Special – Scottish Independence

I recently received an email in my capacity as politics editor for BritMums. It was enquiring as to whether we would be writing about the upcoming referendum on Scottish independence. Of …

Politics Round-up; Budgets and Striking

George Osborne announced his 2014 Budget on the 19th of March. You can read the key points in this piece in The Guardian. But what did bloggers make of it? …

Politics Round-up; Changes, Childcare Costs and Boobs.

I will start with something I missed last month. Jax at Live Otherwise added her post on the concept of basic income, and her follow up on the same theme …

Politics Round-up: Big rows & women in politics

Hello, and welcome to the first politics round-up of 2014. The major thing that got you all talking this month was the prospect of longer school hours. I wrote my …

Politics Round-up: Mandela and more

This past week saw the passing of one of the greatest politicians of the last century. Mandela’s life was long, difficult and ultimately triumphant. He provided us with proof that …

Politics Round-up: Vouchers for breastfeeding and more

It always throws me into disarray when a government announcement results in a flurry of blogposts just as I was about to submit the months politics round-up. Sometimes I pick …