Sponsored post When Weetabix asked me to try its new chocolate variety, I had a cunning plan. I’ve never been massively keen on Weetabix – the biscuits look too much like really harsh bathmats for my liking. But I do know that they are very good for you, being only wheat, and wholewheat at that. So I …
It was so lovely to be at the John Lewis Christmas do yesterday. It really made me feel I’d gone horribly wrong at the dingy careers office at my school 400 years ago. If anyone had told me it was possible to get a job decorating a beautiful listed building in shredded paper and covering …
So English Mum, that shining star of gorgeousness, has thrown down her oven glove gauntlet and challenged us all – yes, all of us, including you – to bake something fabulous. The prize for our efforts – and I am typing this in hushed tones – is a Green & Black’s hamper. Now I am completely …
So there we were, the Liz Jarvis of Living with Kids,Karen Pasquali from TheRealMammaDiaries and I, at the Christmas in July toy fair. There were enough gorgeous, must-have toys around us to keep even the most demanding little monster darling happy. A new Disney Princess oven, featuring rubber cupcakes which rise during ‘cooking’ and can then …
There’s uproar in Dulwich this morning after the Sunday Times report yesterday on the parents who allow their children, aged 8 and 5, to cycle to school unaccompanied every morning, on a mile-long route, crossing a main road with the help of a lollipop lady or other parents. I’ve used the word ‘allow’ – but is …
My contribution to the Alternative Boden Catalogue* which my adorable chum and near neighbour (well, I can almost see her palatial gated residence from here) Dulwich Mum has started: The Downtown Squishy handbag: In a stunning shade of King Prawn, otherwise known as damn-the-au-pair-forgot-to-sunblock-the-kids pink, the Downtown Squishy has pockets for all those vital accessories, …
My adorable regulars will know that I recently got a nasty bit of junk mail – the spam of doom. Probably most people would have deleted this without blinking. With my history, I proved effortlessly that a grown woman can go from nought to jelly in 0.000001 seconds. I freaked. Once I’d stopped gibbering, lots …
So it was the school fete yesterday – the hottest day of the year so far and not, you may well feel, ideal conditions to sell shed-loads of buttercream icing. Nevertheless, my girls and I had made a commitment to run a cupcake stall and run it we were going to, no matter what. Saturday, …
Sponsored Post Good news! After writing about my travails sorting out the summer holidays this year, things are finally falling into place. Our relatives have a window in July which we are shimmying into, after which we are going camping (yes, really! Me! I’m shocked too. I’m borrowing a tent from a lovely friend. …
Sponsored post I was lucky enough to go to a huge event yesterday with TL – absolutely huge if you’re a scientist. It was the Convocation of the Royal Society. The Royal Society has been concentrating on sciencey stuff since 1660 and every big boffin worth their mad hairdo, from Newton on, has been a member. …