Clare Macnaughton

Student across the UK are about to confront the dreaded build up to A-levels examinations. If this is your destiny the Easter holidays are something to be faced with a certain degree fear; but also eager anticipation of the beginning of the end of education as you know it.

It's been awhile since Hagar's been deployed on ops and as I prepare for its coming I think back to the challenges we have previously faced. The thing about the war in Afghanistan is that it is a violent, feudal battlefield, but life is ordered and structured. Hagar goes to...

When I first met Hagar and we were in the throws of young love I had a perception of what a military officer's wife was like and it wasn't me. I looked down my arrogant, young nose at those betrothed and thought I will never become one - 'no way...

I began the blog called a modern military mother originally for women like myself, who are married to the military and often are raising their kids alone - married, single, celibate. For the first three years of my son's life my husband was at home for, at the most, six...

I am not a Petrolhead

I am not recreationally interested in cars. To me a car is a functional means of getting from A to B. Driving is a necessity to enable freedom. Having said all of this though life is simpler if you are driving a car that is...

Living is a risky business nowadays. Especially when we live in a litigious society where everything is somebody else's fault and not our own. Even my eight-year-old son blames me for his mistakes because I had the audacity to give him life.

Hagar, the military pilot thinks the world has...

I wrote a blog post, with the help of the Hospital Group, about cosmetic surgery and self esteem. The blog post was targeting both men and women who wanted a little nip tuck to boost their self esteem.

I received this comment on the blog:

I wrote a blog post on my blog A Modern Military Mother declaring how proud I was to be a feminist and how surprised I was to discover that two educated friends of mine didn't think that they were feminists because they didn't need to be.

When I met my RAF pilot husband, nicknamed Hagar the Horrible for his Viking warrior status, he was a vibrant, bouncy energetic shade of yellow. I was deep shade blue as I had broken my leg and couldn't walk. He burst into my life, loudly declared "hello, dream date" and...

Today's news is that women are still earning less then men.

According to the BBC website: "It will take almost a century for UK women managers to be paid the same as their male counterparts, a study says.

Female managers are now paid an average £31,895 per year, compared with...

The sun and the rain have caused the fruit trees in my garden to bow. The branches are laden to the gunwhales with fruit. At the weekend we went brambling - to bramble, which is to gather brambles from the bushes - and I made a bramble and apple crumble...

As an atheist, pacifist, feminist, omnivore mother and wife of a military Chinook pilot the morality of killing is something I have pondered often. Is it wrong to kill? How do I feel about killing? As a woman who has conceived, gestated, birthed and is parenting, nurturing and protecting two...

I don't think that our worlds could be further apart right now. Hagar is hot, dusty in the darkness of battle and I am just about keeping my head above water in the wetness of summer.

I feel like a hamster in a wheel. I am clinging onto control in...

"Their deaths are a reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices made by the men and women of our military and their families, including all who have served in Afghanistan," President Barack Obama said. "We will draw inspiration from their lives, and continue the work of securing our country and standing up...