Christmas is coming, there is a mountain of presents waiting to be wrapped in my wardrobe – ooops, given away my special secret hiding place now – and there are relatives about to descend. When I passed the butcher’s in the village, I saw that the last day for ordering your free-range, organic, no doubt …
Sponsored post I’m not very good at saying no to freebies. We have a cupboard full of apple-flavoured liquorice to prove that. I don’t like liquorice, I don’t like synthetic apple – at what point exactly did I feel the combination was going to improve things? Sometimes I just make myself sigh. Anyway, you take my …
It’s Gallery time and clever Tara has the most beautiful picture on her blog today of someone who’s going all out for Christmas. I can’t help but admire their chutzpah as they zoom towards the big day on a multi-coloured sleigh. Here in Dulwich, unfortunately life is a bit more restrained – except in Divorce …
A friend lent me a copy of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Eat, Pray, Love in the summer and I admit I rather put it to one side. I had already been asked to be on a panel discussing Julia Roberts’ film of the book and, while I was very honoured, I really didn’t want to get …
Interesting to see that Lord Sugar (what a shame we can’t call him Surrallan any more) is having a spat with Piers Morgan and Chris Evans on Twitter. It just shows that even apparent grownups, or in this triumvirate’s case, close equivalents, lose all sense of proportion when they have a whole 140 characters to …
This week lovely Tara’s Gallery theme is White. I did think I could go a bit oblique on this, and sidestep the obvious snowy picture – but then I thought, nah. I’m just not in a clever mood, snow is beautiful and fleeting and, more importantly, I actually have quite a good picture to use. It’s of the playground opposite the …
Sponsored Post Oh my goodness, those clever chappies at the Radisson Park Inn have come up with a devilishly cunning game in their great holiday giveaway competition. As if it wasn’t enough that they are offering free week-long holidays – free, I tell you! – in Berlin and Tunisia, as well as £250 vouchers to be spent …
So there I was, banned from seeing the latest Harry Potter film – even though I have faithfully taken the girls to all the other films, read the books, bought the DVDs and even asked them all the quiz questions on long car journeys across Europe. I am one of the few people without the …
‘You’re so sweet, I should give you up for Lent,’ says one of the characters in Katie Fforde’s lovely new book, Wedding Season. It’s a deliciously appropriate line for this toothsome tale of three friends whose lives become as interwoven as a Curly Wurly – though we shouldn’t be mentioning those as they’re made by …
I can’t pretend I am a big snow fan – after the initial gasps at its beauty, I’m afraid I get caught up in anxiety about driving, breaking my neck walking down my ungritted road, and the possibilities of my little dears dying of exposure while throwing snowballs (I know it’s silly) but every now and …