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Glass half full …

I am indebted to my lovely friend S for finally finding a glass which is just about the right size for my tiny nightly tipple of extra-strong screwcap Chardonnay …..well, nearly the right size anyway, thanks so much for trying, dear S xx. Ooopsie, just spilt a little! Dulwich Divorcee

Puppy love?

I talked to my lovely friend Slippers about my recent contretemps with TL, though I admit I slightly glossed over the part where I hit him 20 times after finding out he had had a rendez-vous with a former love, and concentrated more on the fact that he’d abandoned me to ‘think’ again. There is …

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Shopping and dropping

No-one can cheer me up like my impossibly glamorous friend J. This is the story she told me yesterday: A woman was in town on a shopping trip. She began her day finding the most perfect shoes in the first shop and a beautiful dress on sale in the second. In the third, usually stratospherically …

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Good Friday

It’s uncanny. Here we are, on a Bank Holiday – Good Friday no less – and things are very far from good. TL has gone away again to ‘think’. The children are with Mr X. Even the cat, darling Mme Bovary, is a bit offish. The weather is grey and cold in London. Oh well. …

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What a waist

I was in the changing room at the Boden shop (yes, there is one, it’s not just catalogues you know, it’s cleverly positioned near the M40 to nab all those Bodenites nipping out to the home counties to see their parents/water the weekend cottage/dream of living in the stockbroker belt, do keep up!) when I …

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Hot Potato

I’m not quite sure who this charming lady is, but she has a very clever tip to pass on to you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4W0qIPJmoo Potato salad will never be the same again! Dulwich Divorcee

I love you too

The gorgeous B, she of the dream home/husband/children/life/oh-and-did-I-mention-she-is-also-thin, shows she has all the above, and a sense of humour, too. She sent me this little joke, which I can’t resist passing on, even though it will scare my one male reader, the lovely Chairman Bill: “A man escapes from a prison where he’s been locked …

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Mother’s Day

How do I do it? It’s Mother’s Day, and I’m on my own. The children are with Mr X and, as the cherry on the top of the cake, it’s no speakies with True Love. The children didn’t even say Happy Mother’s Day on the phone this morning. Well, they’re only small(ish), and the Mother’s …

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Office life

Being back in an office has been a revelation. I had no idea, for instance, that people still made instant coffee! And my lovely co-workers can be such a giggle. The Comic Relief poster by the coffee machine, sporting the grinning chops of the lady who used to do Big Brother, was carefully annotated by …

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Vital Statistics

I’m indebted to one of my lovely friends Abroad for these pearls of wisdom. I’m never sure whether people want to be acknowledged by name in these pages, and after all, I cling to my own negligee of anonymity as desperately as any other Dulwich mummy cleaves to an unmaxed-out credit card – but you …

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