Lovely Linda of You’ve Got Your Hands Full and Have a Lovely Time has nominated me for this award !! Normally I would go all middle-class and squirmy and ‘what, little me?’ and ‘oh, I don’t deserve it’ and ‘I couldn’t possibly ask you to vote for me.’ But the voting closes tomorrow. There’s hardly any …
It was the school’s Easter concert tonight, my favourite of the year. Bittersweet, as ever, though, as I watched the other parents wander in two by two and sit and wave at their children. There’s no place where I feel more like a single parent than on a shiny wooden pew at a school do. …
Ok, I admit it. I am completely rubbish with awards. I’m always thrilled to bits to get them. I glow with pride. I feel great bursts of bloggy love. I rush over to whoever the kind and generous donor is, I download the picture, I stow it in a little folder – and there it sits, gathering …
I’ve been blowing my own trumpet so much of late that I am in real danger of blistering my perfect pout. But, in the absence of a team of cheerleaders on my benches, I sort of feel justified. Almost. Well, anyway, the news is so exciting that I can’t help yelling it from the rooftops …
…..Just to cheer us all up. Particularly me, as my @£$%* computer has been on the blink since Tuesday. And big thanks to my lovely friend S for passing it on. Dear Tech Support, slowdown in overall system performance — particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend. Romance and …
Two very nice ladies came to see me this morning to tell me all about Norton’s clever new OnlineFamily system. It’s basically designed to be a high tech virtual playpen, keeping your children out of all that bad stuff on the web. It’s designed for more technology friendly families than ours, I think. We only have …
A little post to celebrate my happy mother’s day with my girls. We went to a Secret Film Screening which is so hush-hush and embargoed that I can’t even write about it until next Monday! Thanks, lovely EnglishMum, who kindly passed on the invite. Don’t tell the film people, but I’m really hoping I won’t …
Sometimes, even the words Great Ormond Street Hospital can make me well up. It’s partly the crying-at-everything phenomenon which has struck me in my 40s, which the lovely Tara of Sticky Fingers has written about here. It’s partly that I’m the mother of (touch wood) two healthy, gorgeous girls and I feel so sad for …
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OMG! I know I slightly overuse those three little letters, but this is definitely an OMG moment. My book is coming out on Friday! I had been vaguely thinking about contacting my darling agent to see when (or even if, I admit I am a terrible pessimist and publishing is a fast-moving, cut-throat and jolly …