I’ve had a lot of fun this week with socks. That’s not a misspelling. It’s been really cold in London, and I am now established in a pretty good writing routine, sitting in the kitchen every morning typing away for two hours. Unfortunately, I am sitting in a howling draught. To make this a little …
Sponsored post How do you plan your interiors? I’m not sure I’ve ever sat down and really worked out what a room should look like from top to bottom, and I say that as someone who *loves* interiors and design. It’s never an entirely blank canvas, is it? There are things you have to take …
I rather love the idea of marrying yourself, which was all over the Guardian magazine on Saturday. There was a lovely glossy spread on a forty-something journalist getting all done up in a white dress and posing pensively amid gorgeous Japanese cherry blossoms (the company offering ‘me-weddings’ is Japanese), with no groom in sight. When …
Another day, and another person I know finds out they have cancer. It’s not surprising, I suppose – the statistics say that fifty per cent of us will now get it at some point during our lives. We’re living longer, we’re sedentary, we do all the wrong things for years and we’re fine and then …
There was a great long article in the Guardian’s G2 section today about how we’re all buying less stuff. As a decluttering enthusiast (my nearest and dearest would say deranged fanatic) this sounded like terrific news. If it were true, then I would no longer be the only person I know who gets a thrill …
I went to see such a brilliant performance of Guys and Dolls on Monday night, it’s kept me going all week. It was at the Savoy Theatre, which is tucked away at the side of, and I suppose underneath, the Savoy Hotel. It’s really easy to get to for me, just a stroll from Charing …
It’s been ages since I got a Clinique free gift. We used to get them as often as we could as students – which wasn’t often at all. My flatmate and great friend was a fellow Clinique fan so in theory, we could buy one product each and then split the gift (it’s always been …
Did you hear the Woman’s Hour interview with Sue Klebold, the mother of Columbine killer Dylan Klebold, yesterday? She comes over – and clearly is – an intelligent, thoughtful woman, who had tried to do her best as a mother. It was very troubling, and I realised that I dearly wanted to blame her son’s …
Sponsored post Rather a lovely treat yesterday as I was asked to review the Sunday Times revamp, featuring its all-new and wondrously glossy magazine. Naturally I took this as the perfect excuse to lounge around all day and fob off anyone who asked me to do anything by saying I was engaged on Very Important …
I’ve seen quite a few bits and bobs recently sniping about Marie Kondo, the Japanese decluttering expert. People have been loudly hailing the virtues of keeping their mountains of stuff, and insisting the first item they would get rid of would be Kondo’s book, the Life Changing Magic of Tidying. Well, each to their own, …