They say as one door closes, another opens … well, maybe I’ve accidentally crocheted my own door. I started crocheting a couple of years ago and I’m not even sure if I remember why. My grandmother used to crochet endless circular blankets which I used to snuggle under as a child, and I’m sure that …
It’s going to be Child One’s 21st birthday in a few days and, amid the usual bittersweet ruminations about the passage of time, the blossoming of my lovely daughter (and dwindling of her mother) and all that wistful jazz, I have suddenly realised that the project I’ve been working on, in lacklustre fashion, better be …
Took Child Two to see The Libertine at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket last night. This was partly to bolster her upcoming uni English Lit interviews, since the play’s anti-hero, the Earl of Rochester, was the inspiration for lots of restoration baddies – and partly because it stars the rather lovely Dominic Cooper. You probably remember …
I read the Girl on the Train in hospital, while dipping in and out of general anaesthetics, and I got hopelessly lost with all its shifts in place and perspective. I know that was the whole point of the book, but it left me underwhelmed at the time. So I wasn’t sure whether to see …
We went to the Royal Academy’s blockbusting Abstract Expressionism exhibition at the weekend and, as usual, I really struggled to get to grips with this (for me) difficult art movement. A part of me looks at the huge canvases, daubed apparently randomly, and I can’t help but think that if I tied paintbrushes to my …
I’m so glad that Cruise International magazine has come out at last, partly because it’s always lovely to have an article in print, and partly because I can now tell you all about our super-swanky holiday this summer. We went on a six star (yes, six! Five stars are just soooo low rent, you know) …
It’s a full six months to the next Mother’s Day, which just happens to fall on March 26th 2017 (I know this because I’ve just Googled it). So, really, you have absolutely no excuse now to be unprepared come the glorious day, given that I’ve given you so much advance warning. But you might well …
Well, another friend’s daughter has gone off to university today. When I popped round yesterday, there was a huge pile of all her worldly goods – all the ones wanted on this part of her voyage, anyway – by the front door. Among them was a pin board with a picture of one of her …