Clara is a literary translator (French ↔ English) on extended parental leave. After adopting a kitten and then having a baby within eighteen months, she spent a summer re-researching every plant in her flat to check what was safe to chew on.

She writes about non-toxic species, plants that survive being knocked off a shelf, and the troubleshooting ladder for when something looks wrong but the baby also looks wrong and you have twenty minutes. Her articles skew practical and empathetic — she knows the reader is tired.