Ok, so here it is finally, my pre-Christmas post. Yes, I know, I’ve somewhat missed the deadline, but you know what? I had presents to wrap, turkey to stuff, all that malarky that you’ll know about only too well as you had to do it too. Only you managed to get a Christmas post up …
It’s that Nativity time of year and, as usual, my sympathies go out to all those representations of the baby Jesus, be they shiny plastic dolls, real live babies who’ve been volunteered by their proud mothers, or even stuffed rabbits, as happened recently at a junior school near us. Why on earth does He need …
A bit of a shocker yesterday as the headmistress of the school my daughters attend sent out a letter confirming that Ruby Thomas, who has just been convicted of manslaughter after stamping a man to death (I can hardly type that without feeling sick) in Trafalgar Square, was at the school three years ago. According to my daughters, she was …
I was really excited to be asked along to a behind-the-scenes tour of the Royal Institution, including the making of this year’s Christmas Lectures. The Christmas Lectures have been taking place since 1825 and have been televised since the 1960s, making them much more of a long-running Christmas tradition than Christmas cards and even Christmas …
Christmas is coming, there is a mountain of presents waiting to be wrapped in my wardrobe – ooops, given away my special secret hiding place now – and there are relatives about to descend. When I passed the butcher’s in the village, I saw that the last day for ordering your free-range, organic, no doubt …
Sponsored post I’m not very good at saying no to freebies. We have a cupboard full of apple-flavoured liquorice to prove that. I don’t like liquorice, I don’t like synthetic apple – at what point exactly did I feel the combination was going to improve things? Sometimes I just make myself sigh. Anyway, you take my …
It’s Gallery time and clever Tara has the most beautiful picture on her blog today of someone who’s going all out for Christmas. I can’t help but admire their chutzpah as they zoom towards the big day on a multi-coloured sleigh. Here in Dulwich, unfortunately life is a bit more restrained – except in Divorce …
A friend lent me a copy of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Eat, Pray, Love in the summer and I admit I rather put it to one side. I had already been asked to be on a panel discussing Julia Roberts’ film of the book and, while I was very honoured, I really didn’t want to get …
Interesting to see that Lord Sugar (what a shame we can’t call him Surrallan any more) is having a spat with Piers Morgan and Chris Evans on Twitter. It just shows that even apparent grownups, or in this triumvirate’s case, close equivalents, lose all sense of proportion when they have a whole 140 characters to …
