Well, it’s finally happening. We have bought a new house and we are going to move into it over half term. Naturally, it’s not as easy as that. It’s taken many lawyers, negotiations, broken nights and hoo-has to get this far. And we’re not even there yet. Part of me feels relieved that we’ve got …
Child Two and I recently watched Jamie Oliver’s American Food Revolution and I don’t mind admitting I blubbed when he bounced into a class of five and six year olds, held up a tomato, and literally NOT ONE child knew what on earth it was. They couldn’t even identify a potato in its natural state, …
A great post by my lovely friend Linda has sparked a big debate over at Ready for Ten about ‘Me Time’. It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently as I suddenly, astonishingly, seem to have rather a lot of it. There are those – probably Mr X amongst them – who think my whole …
This whole hoo-ha about the sports presenters dissing a female linesperson at a football match and saying she didn’t understand the offside concept struck me as a really big load of silliness – until a chap came round to sell me a pension today. Time and again he said things like, ‘I’ll spare you the …
Sponsored post As you all know, I’m not much of a shopper. Ahem. Could you stop laughing at the back there, please? I can hear you, you know. Obviously I do have a slight, passing interest in clothing – one has to throw something on one’s back, after all – and sometimes it is my …
Exactly this time last week, I was lying with my feet up at the Sanctuary, having a head, neck and shoulder massage courtesy of those darlings at Special K. Yes, I know, it’s nice work if you can get it ….. but in fact, and you may find this hard to believe, I did struggle with …
Sponsored Post I love words. I think it comes of growing up in a family which played word games all the time – we would talk about ‘chish and fips’ and ‘par carks’, we’d say ‘what’s harpooning?’ instead of what’s happening, and my father would set off for work every day with his ‘grief pace’ instead of …
I was struggling round the supermarket yesterday, mustering the ingredients for the Book Group dinner chez moi, and muttering grimly, ‘the first rule about Book Group is … I wish there were no Book Group….’ (naturally I love it when it’s at everyone else’s houses and I can nosh the night away. But when it’s at …
Well, I’ve really gone and done it now. It turns out that the paperback version of my novel isn’t, in fact, coming out until August. I know this because I emailed my publisher to say how much I liked the picture of my very own legs taken by a secret undercover photographer hiding in a …
A lovely surprise, just when I needed it, when I was, ahem, checking out my book’s sales on Amazon. I know it’s a bit sad, but in fact I know authors who spend a lot of time rearranging stacks in bookshops so that their own wares come out on top. At least I don’t do …