Lucy Dixon
Lucy Dixon lives in rural Suffolk with her six-year-old son, George. Being self-employed and a single mum has been recently complicated by a run in with a neurological condition. It means her parenting style is evolving but luckily it hasn’t stopped her thrashing George at Super Mario Kart.
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