As any mother of teenagers knows, life is a daily struggle to preserve some vestige of coolness in the face of the implacable scorn of youth. A while ago, though, I knew I had finally done something to make my girls proud. I was lucky enough to be invited by Galaxy chocolate to interview the wondrous …
My lovely friend E has sent us this to cheer everyone up on a bleak November morning. The last one made me laugh so much I can now feel my toes again for the first time in hours – thank you, E! Mwah. The First Affair A married man was having an affair With his secretary. One day they …
I must admit that the hoo-ha over the latest Harry Potter film is rather bittersweet for me. We have always been massive Harry Potter fans. Child One even wrote to J K Rowling, and got a reply, written on gorgeous special paper. That would have been enough to make me love the woman and all …
A couple of bloggers I am really fond of have said, lately, that their blogging mojo is flagging, and I know what they mean. There are days when walking the fine line between revealing too much – and how much is too much? – and still attempting to remain a tiny bit entertaining just seems …
If there were a magic wand that would get children to sleep, we’d all have waved it at some point. Sleep can sometimes seem more elusive than any Holy Grail. I remember times when I have literally prayed for the little dears to drop off – and I’m pretty much an atheist. Nowadays I have …
A huge thank you to the lovely S for today’s little shocker …. you may want to sit down before reading on …..
It was a gorgeous treat yesterday to zip up to the Royal Academy with two great friends. It felt like the first time for ages I had done something without some sort of work angle, purely for my own pleasure, and it was fab! Of course, I don’t pretend in the slightest to be toiling …
There are some ads on telly that have me rushing for the off-switch (not that I can ever find the remote when I need it) but there is one, at the moment, that always raises a smile. It’s the Boots ‘here come the girls’ campaign. It’s partly the great, and incredibly catchy, song, and partly …
We were in the kitchen yesterday, shovelling down breakfast as quickly as possible before the school run, when Child Two piped up. ‘What would you do if someone asked you to marry them, but you didn’t like the ring?’ Instantly three spoons went down as the females pondered this dreadful question. Eeek! Wouldn’t that be …
We were a little late for the Build-a-Bear Workshop bloggers meet-up in Covent Garden last week. In the case of Child One, we were about five years late. As she is now all of 15, a shop full of screaming, over-excited bear fans (and that was just the mummy bloggers, boom boom) was a little …