About The Only Girl

Hi, I’m Jess and if you don’t spot me on the football sidelines with a thermos cuppa in hand, you can usually find me scrolling Vinted and Facebook Marketplace, desperately trying to bring down our beach hut’s cost per use in all weathers, taxiing teenagers, concocting another plan to rejig our ex-local authority semi to fit our blended family of 5 boys and live out my Scandi/beach house dreams, or creating recipes to keep the rabble at bay.

I’m 40, trying to claw back some sense of self as perimenopause hit like a steam train on wet tracks on my 39th birthday. I live in the West Sussex countryside with my partner Russ of 12 years (second time around for us both, but no, we’re not married… yet?!? Story for another day perhaps!), the family dog and 2 cats, and variations of our 5 boys – Casper (9), Bruno (16), Hugo (18), Marley (20) and Noah (22). I say ‘variations’ as they come and go depending on finances, relationships, football commitments and what’s for dinner that night – it’s a revolving door of ‘bants’/dirty Nike socks and a nostalgic kinda love.

Yup, we’re a Noah down in this pic (he was in Japan) point and case about the ‘variations’

I love learning a new craft and never finishing projects, I adore interiors books that I’ll never read and insist on making 20 cups of tea a day which will always go cold.


What to Expect…

There’s no niche, no ‘staying in my lane’ – I’m swerving all over the content track with a healthy dose of humour and liberal sprinkling of colourful language (blame my market trader heritage).

As a FREE Subscriber

You’ll get a liberal dose of light hearted content - recipes, preloved tips/tricks/hacks, links to preloved items I simply don’t have space/money for but are too good to not share, what I’m loving and even what I’m not and the whole behind the scenes of all that I will continue to share over on Instagram.

As a PAID Subscriber (£3.50 per month)

Welcome to the inside! This is the safe space for all things a little deeper (not in a Christian Grey kinda way!).

You’ll get all the above, as well as podcasts/chats with the boys/Russ/anyone else I can rope in for a cuppa in front of a mic; thoughts on football academies and elite sport; an exclusive subscriber preloved shop with regular drops and exclusive discount; and musings on the deeper shit that needs to sit somewhere a little more ‘private’ (oh I know, the irony of that being on the world wide web!) – things like the realities of life with a neurodivergent teen, parental estrangement, living as a separated couple, the actual cost of renovations. You know, all the stuff you wanna ask, but are too polite!

I’m incredibly glad you’ve got to the point of clicking the little ‘about’ button and hope this incredibly précised version of myself has been enough to whet your appetite to stick around a little longer and go for a scroll, have a listen or join in with chats. And it would blow my mind if you hit the ‘subscribe’ button.

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Musings on our busy life with boys. Sharing snippets from our family home, beach hut, preloved EVERYTHING, things I love and parenting teens.

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Mum & Referee to All The Boys Mostly found at our beach hut 🏖 the sidelines ⚽️ a carboot sale 🧺 feeding teens or decorating something. 📍nr Brighton in the West Sussex countryside