Having my first taste of working and being home alone this week - mum left last week and DH is in NZ for a few days. Is going ok, just had to leave work half an hour early to make sure I made the 6:00pm pick up - being late is far too expensive - as it was the trains all ran in my favor and I had loads of time to spare - might try leaving just 15 mins early tomorrow instead. Not sure I would enjoy it if DH had to do more travel (is a possibility more in 2014 I think) - he normally does all the washing and ironing and does majority of cooking of our lunches etc. DS is still a pain in the backside at going to sleep, and at least with two of us can take in turns to sit in dark with him - last night I just ended up falling asleep with him till 21:00 then woke in a panic thinking had missed online shopping delivery but luckily I hadn't.

I am with you Astrid about the super - it is scary when you read how much women are down on their contributions compared to men - for us DH has very little super/pension compared to me, because he moved from job to job and did teaching in Spain to move around with me when he was younger, and has had spells out of of work over here too, as well as starting at very low paying jobs when we first came over. Super is one of the reasons I feel so strongly about how a reform is required into women working and childcare etc - and I did manage to find something on web (make care fair) about it which gives more info and facts and does summarize to some extent what different political parties are doing or not doing. That is the other thing work is giving me - time on public transport to read and think about various issues which is probably time I didn't get before. I think I am also finding that working is switching on parts of my brain that have been more switched off or on go slow for a while at least as find am thinking about all sorts of things more, and in a different way - I 'think' is a good thing :-)