Sarah Johnson
My blogs
- The Price of Cheap Meat
- Home Birth in Chiswick and Hammersmith
- If your mobile phone goes off during the performance, I will hunt you down
- The London Dressmakers Club
- Sarah's Rags
- Piggies
Blogs I follow
- A little bit of Thermomix Magic
- BERNY BOS' BLOG - Thoughts about pregnancy and birth
- Boulezian
- Hooked in London
- More Sunshine After Rain
- Seymour says...
- The A to Z Twins
- The Diligent Dilettante
- The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant
- Toothbrush Rugs - Loving them, making them, discussing them
- zzzyva's music room
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Birth Educator and Writer |
| Location | London, London, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Sarah Johnson is a journalist, a mother of four children and also a birth doula. She has written regularly for the Catholic Herald, the London Evening Standard, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph and other publications. She was educated at Oxford University before becoming a journalist. From specialist news reporting on education she moved to children's book reviewing. She is the author of The Christian Parent's Toolkit (2008), Daring to be Different (2004) and Parents on Parenting (1994). Now with four growing young people in the house she is focussing on her lifetime dream of helping women have birthing experiences they can remember with joy and pride and helping new parents and babies enjoy their first days (and nights) together. |
| Interests | Going to church, trying to get closer to God, walking, not-driving, Wine, Parties but not big ones, funny conversations with my children, Sex, babies, helping other women go through the baby thing. |
| Favorite Movies | Brooklyn, Lord of the Rings part 1, Heavenly Creatures, Dirty Pretty Things, Quiz Show, The Luzhin Defence, O Brother Where Art Thou, Sharpe, The Third Man, Duck Soup |
| Favorite Music | Beethove, Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Elgar, Verdi, Puccini. Wagner, Anything romantically ambient and Celtic, really gloomy rock. |
| Favorite Books | Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Dickens, Wind in the Willows, C S Lewis, Jane Eyre, Charlotte's Web, The Once and Future King, Mistress Masham's Repose, Lady Chatterley's Lover, except isn't Mellors a tedious racist sexist moaning bore... Read carefully - the man has a ginger moustache. Nobody would care about him if Sean Bean had not played him in the TV series. |