Sometimes, even the words Great Ormond Street Hospital can make me well up. It’s partly the crying-at-everything phenomenon which has struck me in my 40s, which the lovely Tara of Sticky Fingers has written about here. It’s partly that I’m the mother of (touch wood) two healthy, gorgeous girls and I feel so sad for …
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OMG! I know I slightly overuse those three little letters, but this is definitely an OMG moment. My book is coming out on Friday! I had been vaguely thinking about contacting my darling agent to see when (or even if, I admit I am a terrible pessimist and publishing is a fast-moving, cut-throat and jolly …
Thanks to the brilliant Littlemummy‘s clever blogswap idea, I’m proud to introduce my guest blogger, the lovely Ella of Most/Least. Ella is a former homeschooling mother of four, whose little boy has a serious kidney condition. She works, she blogs, she dazzles, and today, she’s doing it all chez moi: I’m very excited to be …
What is it about Wednesdays and Thursdays? These are the two days a week when I’m supposed to do my impression of a grown-up, and go and work in a real open plan office, hang out by the water cooler, and pretend I have a glancing interest in whether England won against Egypt last night. …
Lovely Exmoorjane has tagged me and challenged me to reveal the contents of my handbag to the world. Now this would probably have been a much more painful exercise if I hadn’t decided to Transfer yesterday. For those of you not in the know with handbags (I’m probably talking men here) Transferring is a sacred ritual which …
So Child Two came home on Friday and made an announcement which nearly caused me to vomit. ‘I have to make a model of the Forum in Rome.’ As if this was not bad enough, she then added: ‘And I have to make it out of matchsticks.’ It took all my strength not to propose …
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum …. Read More »
I’ve compiled my special Divorce Towers list of Half Term pitfalls … 1. Don’t be a single mother. This applies to more than just half term, but I’ve shoved it in here just so I can try and garner a bit of sympathy in advance before you all decide you hate me. You’ll see why …
Laydeeez and gencleplums, may I present Divorce Tower’s entry in the delightful English Mum’s Cupcake Concordat? As you will see, they are as pink and fluffy and Valentiney as anyone could ever wish: Delish, n’est-ce pas? I can say that without seeming (too) disgustingly boastful as it was actually Child One, my secret weapon, who …
The Scene: the sitting room at Divorce Towers The Cast: Dulwich Divorcee, Child One, Child Two and a special guest star appearance by True Love. Act One The lights go up as the four participants are clustered around a single piece of paper. ‘Don’t rip it!’ ‘It’s mine!’ ‘Get off,’ and ‘Could you all just …