Ever since the great Window Box Theft, I’ve been looking around me anxiously. Which is ridiculous, obviously, for here we are in leafy Dulwich and there are, frankly, few safer places in the globe (I am clutching an enormous chunk of wood as I say this). The theft, I am sure, was down to over-excited teens, who passed my beautiful …
Phew, what a day yesterday at Britain’s Next Top Model Live 2010! I must admit that I have never watched a single episode of BNTM or the American version, but a lot of friends are diehard addicts and I knew both Child One and Child Two would LOVE it. We were lucky enough to be invited …
I’m indebted to my lovely friend E for today’s thought …… A Real Man A real man is a woman’s best friend. He will never stand her up and never let her down. He will reassure her when she feels insecure and comfort her after a bad day. He will …
I had a Bad Mother Moment last week. In fact, I feel so bad about it that it’s taken me all this time to bring myself to write about it. We were at an end-of-term party for one of the girls’ activities. There was loud music playing. There were a lot of mummies chatting. …
As the inquest has just opened on the victims of the terrible 7/7 bombings here in London in 2005, it seems the right moment to have a look at the new film, London River, based on that awful day and its aftermath. The film, which stars the supremely talented Brenda Blethyn and Sotigui Kouyate, is a tale …
Hurray! The lovely Tara over at Sticky Fingers has chosen a subject this week for her Gallery that even I, the world’s worst photographer, can enter. It’s favourite photos. My favourite photo is, of course, of my girls. It was taken five years ago, on a gorgeous, crisp, snowy New Year’s Day in Brussels. It’s …
Sponsored post For those of us already panicking about the looming half term – yes, I know, already – I’ve been putting on my thinking cap. In fact, it’s more of a woolly bobble hat, as the thought I’ve had is skiing. I have a friend who’s been taking her daughter, quite regularly, almost all …
You learn a lot about your friends when you accidentally spam them with a graphic invitation to improve their sexual performance. I first realised I had a computer virus on Saturday when I started getting stacks of those ‘postmaster delivery status notification messages’ piling up in my inbox. I suppose it shouldn’t have been a …
I’m sorry, but this global recession thing is just getting too damn personal. First I lose my lovely little part-time job. Then a nice restaurant in the village, Piaf, suddenly closes down with virtually no warning. And now I hear that the handbag shop, Jags, has also gone for good. This is doubly sad as, …
There’s nothing worse than seeing your child upset, and knowing there’s nothing you can do about it. Unless it’s knowing that, even if you could do something about it, you really, really shouldn’t. Teenage girls get themselves in a terrible tangle with their social arrangements, and learning to dig themselves out of holes, even deep …