This month here at Divorce Towers we’ve been very busy, testing some lovely new stuff, all on your behalf, of course: 1. Galaxy Bites. Yummy little caramel spheres, lovingly coated in Galaxy choc. What’s not to like? A big thumbs-up from my residence caramel addict, Child Two. 2. Speedo Sea Squad ponchos, arm bands and …
Sponsored There are some words which instantly grab my attention in an email subject line. Chocolate is one – though I never deigned to reply to the PR who used the word chocolate to get me to open the mail, then didn’t mention it again once in a 300-word puff for something that didn’t fit …
I’m afraid I am utterly gripped by the Chris Huhne affair. Having missed it completely – I must have been on Mars – I got a crash course a couple of days ago when I picked up a copy of the Daily Telegraph. What a switchback ride the whole thing is. First we have the classic wriggly …
I had the most brilliant idea when walking around the park this morning. Well, I thought it was brilliant, see what you think. There were lots of dogs with their owners, on a perfect early summer’s day, with blue skies and a slight breeze. It was just a lovely day to take a dog for …
There are not many people I would sport excess facial hair for *shudder*, but obviously I had to make an exception for Tara’s Gallery , especially as world moustache expert Laura from Are We Nearly There Yet Mummy? is acting as scrutineer. Here goes then: I think you’ll agree I’m giving Jack Sparrow a run …
It was a perfectly normal school run. We were late, we’d had various arguments over breakfast about Child Two’s sudden short-sock famine and the fact that, as there is no kitchen, we can’t have cereal and are still eating off paper plates. Sometimes these arguments seem like a familiar dance, where we all know our …
We were settling down to watch telly last night when I realised something. There is almost no drama on TV these days which does not feature women getting dismembered. I don’t know if it is the time of year, or the recession, or some deeper malaise at work, but if you want to watch a drama …
Eeek! I’m dropping my car off today to have her makeover – keen readers will remember that she was vandalised on New Year’s Day. It will take a good week to restore lovely Evie (the car. Yes of course she has a name!) to her former splendour. In the meantime, I will be driving a …
Well, my new cooker was delivered yesterday. After three months of cooking on a curious heated box which the Young Ones would have turned their noses up at, this was quite an event. Unfortunately, we can’t unpack it as painting is still going on downstairs in The Dungeon, or the new kitchen as it will …
I think of all my regrets, my sharpest is not reading Flaubert’s Mme Bovary when I was younger. Somehow, I missed it out, though I’ve waded through far more than my fair share of classics. I read it only a couple of years ago when I suggested it to my book group. By that time it was …