A strange outing this weekend. TL was very keen to go to the Sunday Assembly in Holborn, central London. I purposely didn’t Google the whole Sunday Assembly idea before we set off, as I knew it would put me off. I thought it was a kind of extended mindfulness thing (which I am already grappling …
I’ve just started a mindfulness course. For those who’ve been on Mars with Matt Damon, mindfulness is the new cure-all which is supposed to be more effective than anti-depressants, psychiatry and psychotherapy in controlling anxiety, depression and all that stuff. It’s apparently great for people with cancer, and people getting used to believing that they …
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Sponsored post I’m really excited about this – I’ve been offered ten free pairs of tickets for my lovely readers (that’s you) to go to Stylist Live, a rather fabulous event held in at the Business Design Centre in North London over next weekend, from 15th – 18th October. ‘Stylist’ is a pretty broad and …
Lovely day out yesterday to Hampton Court for the Handmade Fair. A very kind friend invited me and the whole day was my idea of heaven – tons of stalls full of tempting crafty bits and bobs, fish and chips for lunch courtesy of the Sea Cow, lots of tea and, above all, loads of …
I’m so cross about this that I can hardly type. Child 2 and a friend were harassed by a large group of boys yesterday as they walked home from the bus stop – a stroll of only about 200 yards. Her friend is 11, and has just started year 8 at the big school. Child …
I used to stay in a hotel in Alsace for a horrible job I once had working for the European Parliament. The hotel was called the Pax, but was (un)fondly known as the Pox to everyone in the office. The room I was always allocated was so small you had to open your suitcase on …
Yesterday morning, a dancer called Jonathan Ollivier was out on his motorbike in central London when he suddenly collided with a car. A couple of hours later, we sat in the packed auditorium at Sadler’s Wells watching Matthew Bourne’s extraordinary ballet Car Man, loosely based on the Bizet opera Carmen. Car Man is set in …
I was thrilled to be taken to Bend it like Beckham last week. I used to think I didn’t like musicals – but that was before I had ever seen one in the West End. I’d just seen sappy musical films on TV and started to yawn as soon as the hero started to sing. …
Here we are, with sunny summer days ahead, and our thoughts naturally turn to ….deodorant. Well, mine have turned that way, because I am very Lymph Node Aware these days and don’t want to fill my poor remaining nodes with potentially toxic gloop. Apparently 98 per cent of women with breast cancer have parabens from …