Month: February 2012

How honest should you be with children about divorce?

How honest should you be with children about divorce?   As if divorce itself is not hard enough, parents also have to worry about the impact it is going to have on their children’s lives. It’s impossible not to feel guilty about inflicting this huge upheaval on your little ones. But how much do they …

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Where dreams come true

Gosh, I think the universe must have been listening when I was moaning on last week about running away to Canada. No sooner did I finish my whinge than a lovely email pinged into my inbox – inviting me to New York! Yes, my adorable Disney friends have asked me to pop along to the …

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High wired

The news that some chappy has won permission to tightrope-walk his way over Niagara Falls has got me thinking. Mostly, why on earth would anyone want to do this? And also, of course, why bother? Most of the women I know are already tippy-toeing across a high wire most of the time. Holding down jobs, …

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Reap your Rewards

Sponsored Post Those clever folk at Tesco have asked me to point some stuff out to you which, I must admit, I didn’t know myself. I expect, like me, you always proffer your Tesco clubcard when you’re asked to at the till. And I expect that, like me, you basically then think no more about it. But …

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Grand designs

I keep on having strange dreams. Last night, I dreamed that a friend, who a few years ago had her entire kitchen revamped, had suddenly knocked down the whole lot and replaced everything with a very odd, corridor-like extension. She was now having a corridor-warming party that we were all at, and, after squeezing past …

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Beauty sleep?

An enormous sense of relief today after a night out with my book club chums – my flesh-and-blood book club, not my virtual one, though it would be brilliant to organise a get-together with my cybereading friends. We were talking about a newspaper report saying doctors often refuse treatment when they have a serious illness …

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Spa-ing partners

As it’s now so close to Valentine’s Day you can almost smell the red roses, I’ve got a lovely giveaway for you. It’s courtesy of those gorgeous big softies at eHarmony. All you have to do is hop over to their facebook page and like their competition, then leave a comment on my blog. All …

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Meet my fake teapot

And now, for the lovely English Mum, and anyone else with a passionate interest in teapots/scams/the concept of caveat emptor, I present a series of photos of my dodgy teapot, contrasted with the genuine article. Prepare to be (mildly) outraged. And now, some photos of the genuine article. These are close-ups of a coffee pot …

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Storm in a teapot

For all those of you sweet enough to worry long into the night (don’t deny it, I know you have) over my Swedish Teapot Situation, here’s an update. Tradera, the Swedish version of eBay, sent me a very pleasant email, sympathising with my situation and suggesting that I contact the seller. Doh! As I had …

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