I think I left you half-way through our staycation, when TL and I spent a whole week moseying around London as though we owned it, seeing stuff we hadn’t visited before, with not a single child in tow. So here’s the next slice of our cultural crash course. One of our treats was to have …
Bit of a shock the other day – a postcard dropped through the letterbox, featuring a large picture of a young girl, in great distress, soaking wet, make-up running, apparently covered in bruises and clutching a few shreds of clothing around her naked shoulders. She’d obviously had a horrible time – raped, battered, something horrible …
Charles Saatchi’s bizarre stunt yesterday, using his almost-grown up daughter, Phoebe, to attack Nigella Lawson for ‘heartlessness’, seems to be an attempt to claim back the moral high ground. While he now has an unenviable reputation as a public wife-strangler and probably a much worse sort of monster in private, Nigella was widely seen in …
One of the unsung advantages of divorce is, of course, the occasional bit of free babysitting done by the ex. But, as I now have stepchildren as well, and as the TWO exes schedules are hard to juggle (yes, that’s a euphemism), we rarely find ourselves with child-free time. Except this week! Obviously, we miss …
As you know I’m pretty random in the subjects I cover – anything from crochet to cookery, with a lot of teenage angst in between – but I’m thinking of spreading my wings even further. As I always say right upfront if something is sponsored (I usually use an orange subheading saying ‘Sponsored Post’), I …
Such a lovely day out yesterday in Oxford. We had lunch on the tippermost top of the Ashmolean museum, on a lovely roof terrace. It was one of those places that feels like a secret, though the fact that it was quite full proved it wasn’t. Great food and company, an intriguing back view of …
I’m not sure what I make of the Apprentice, or rather its winner, Dr Leah. On the one hand, it is great that one of the female contestants won, and even better that there were two women in the final. At the beginning of the series, it looked as though the girls were too silly, …
I’ve been dithering a bit about supporting the No More Page Three campaign. I completely agree it should go tomorrow, no question. But to be honest it doesn’t impinge on my life very often, so I can’t get as worked up about it as I know I should. I used to work in a busy …
Taking A Risk on A New Place is A Winning Move We recently did a spot of house-hunting on the Kent coast. I’ve always been a big fan of Margate and Broadstairs, and we usually do day runs down to the beaches when the weather is fine – which is all lovely, but you tend …
Those luvverly people at Big Game Hunters have sent me a splendid giant chess set – just in the nick of time. After several consecutive days of good weather, the kids have got quite bored with the ancient badminton racquets and deliberately non-functioning water pistols which were all that remained in our outdoor games bucket. …