Month: August 2012

Winning ways

So, it’s virtually the last gasp of the summer holidays, and to celebrate, I decided to plunder the depths of the lovely Tesco back-to-school box which arrived a while back. As well as some fantastically useful stuff, like white shirts, school skirts in a two-pack with elasticated waists and great white socks, there were two …

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Detangling

My girls don’t usually ask me to write about anything. Normally, they’re begging me not to mention them, their friends, the strange ways of teenagers …. anything, basically, which even touches vaguely on their lives is strictly off-limits. Until I bought them new brushes the other day. One of the awful things for divorced children …

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Peri peri sauce ….

Isn’t it odd that, in an age when we’ve all (well, 31m of us) read Fifty Shades of Grey, and now know about safe words, Rooms of Pain and all kinds of other kinky stuff that thankfully I’ve already forgotten, that no one will talk about the plain old menopause. Even though it’s going to …

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Bits and bobbles

A few little bits and bobs which have happened over the summer, none of which is big enough for a post of its own, but all of which made me chuckle: 1. A friend, replying to our wedding invitation, said, ‘Alice, I want to come to ALL your weddings!’ 2. A relative congratulated the dear …

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A bit of a Moment

Sponsored post All that lovely hotness yesterday, when London melted and languished and fanned itself on the hottest day of the year, reminded me of a lovely day out I had right at the beginning of the summer, courtesy of those darling folk at Special K. The reason it felt the same was because I …

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Winning ways

Ok, ok, I admit it. I was wrong about the Olympics. Far from being a transport and tourist nightmare, it was actually one of the nicest times EVER to be in London. Those lovely pink-jacketed transport helpers were brilliant, directing people to the right tubes and trains, while the maroon-clad volunteers were just so smiley …

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A brave face

I caught about half of a Radio 4 Woman’s Hour debate this morning on the pressure women feel to look good – partly inspired by some idiotic comments by Radio 1 presenter Chris Moyles. He’d been making disparaging remarks about some of the female Olympic athletes’ bodies. Excuse me, Chris Moyles, but aren’t you a …

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